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Cameras

Transform Your Old iPhone Into A Home Surveillance Cam

6:00PM January 24, 2012 | Roberto Baldwin

Home security products are expensive and created by developers that have no interest in making things easy for end users. Instead, pull that old iPhone out of a drawer and make it the spy cam you’ve always wanted. More »


News

Lady Liberty’s Badarse Freedom Cams Are Live

6:00AM October 29, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

We were excited to hear that the Statue of Liberty had been outfitted with some rad webcams in honour of her 125th birthday. Well Big Mother’s eyes in the sky just went live and holy hell are they cool. More »


Cameras

Big Mother Is Watching: Statue Of Liberty Gets Panoramic Webcams

6:20AM October 25, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

Soon you’ll be able to see the world from Lady Liberty’s vantage without ever visiting New York. The Statue of Liberty is getting a sweet 125th birthday gift: five webcams that will broadcast sweeping panoramas 24 hours a day. More »


Computing

Lunchtime Deal: Logitech Peripherals Up To 50% Off

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12:00PM October 21, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Looks like Big W is clearing Logitech products out of the warehouse at the moment, with a variety of peripherals — keyboards, webcams and speakers — being sold off at up to 50% off for online only sale. It’s all while stocks last, but there’s a pretty big range of options available at the moment. [Big W via BuckScoop]


Software

New Adobe Exploit Could Give Any Website Access To Your Webcam

6:49AM October 21, 2011 | Brent Rose

A Stanford computer science student named Feross Aboukhadijeh has uncovered a pretty major security hole in Adobe Flash, in which somebody could turn on your Mac’s webcam and mic and save that video for whatever nefarious purposes. Oh good. More »


Geek Out

There’s A Solar Powered Webcam Near The Top Of Mount Everest

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2:05PM September 30, 2011 | Alex Kidman

OK, I think it’s official. There’s nowhere on the planet you can escape the glare of a camera lens. Scientists from Italy have installed a solar powered, web enabled camera near the top of Mount Everest — and everybody’s invited to watch. More »


Entertainment

Logitech’s TV Cam Lets You Skype Through Panasonic TVs

7:25PM May 3, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Basically, Logitech’s grabbed their 720p webcam and made it mountable and compatible with TVs – well, Panasonic’s 2011 model of Viera Connected TV that supports Skype. On sale this month, it’ll cost $US150. [Logitech]


News

Boyfriend Watches His Girlfriend Murdered Live On Webcam

2:19AM April 21, 2011 | Adrian Chen

While he chatted with her over a webcam from China, a Beijing student says there was knock on his girlfriend Qian Liu’s door in Toronto. A man entered and a struggle followed. Ten hours later, Liu’s body was found in her basement apartment. [Gawker]


Geek Out

What Happens When Your Grandparents Discover Photo Booth On Your MacBook

6:56PM February 17, 2011 | Adrian Covert

If this isn’t proof that your grandparents can be just as big, if not bigger, of a jackass than you, I don’t know what is. More »


Geek Out

Paper Web Cam Cover Turns You Into The 50-Foot Woman

12:20PM February 16, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

This paper webcam cover by Japanese architect Ryuji Nakamura is guaranteed to make you a more intimidating video chat interlocutor. Brilliant. [Ryuji Nakamura via Laughing Squid]