isight
Cameras
Apple Patents iSight Cam Behind Laptop Screen, Will Hear From Errol Morris’s Lawyers
3:20AM John Mahoney | A recent Apple patent for an iSight camera located behind the screen instead of above it sounds like a cool idea–too bad a system just like it has already been invented. More »
Software
FluidTunes Lets You Frantically Flail Through Your iTunes Library
7:56PM John Herrman | Mgestyk’s system-wide camera control system looks fun, but FluidTunes, a simple program that lets your toss around your iTunes library via your iSight, has two important things that it doesn’t: free-ness and out-now-ness. More »
Peripherals
Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro Webcam For Macs, Like iSight but Better
12:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Remember the old Apple iSight: auto-focus, built to last, clip-on and generally fantastic? Well, Logitech is trying to take us back to the days when you snapped a cam onto your machine to do your video-calling, and has released the QuickCam Vision Pro Webcam for Macs. It’s got Carl Zeiss optics, a voice-coil motor for smooth auto-focus, a 2-megapixel sensor and can record video in 720p resolution. Sure it’s not quite as sleek as the old iSight and you can’t use it for iChat video effects, but it seems a tad better than Apple’s built-in cams. Available July for US$129.99. Press release below. More »
Computers
Stolen MacBook Victim Uses Screen Sharing and iSight to Bust Thieves
5:37AM Adrian Covert | A White Plains, NY woman who was the victim of burglary, including her MacBook, used the Back To My Mac screen sharing feature to turn on her webcam and capture images of the unwitting culprits using the computer. As a result, police were able to arrest the thieves and recover most of the stolen goods, which included two laptops, two flat-screen televisions, two iPods, gaming consoles, DVDs and computer games.
Peripherals
