Ecamm is producing a webcam exclusively for the Mac OS. And while it’s certainly not a terrible product, it doesn’t make much sense to me.
I mean, it’s a decent camera. Nothing amazing, but for $150 bucks, it’s respectable. 640×480 resolution, about 4 hours of battery life. Even comes with a min-tripod. Seems okay. I guess if your computer didn’t come with a webcam, yeah — it might be something you’d think about buying. I guess it could be used as a possible nanny-cam or something like that, but otherwise I don’t see much of a point. If you do want one, they’ll be shipping at the end of March this year.
[via OhGizmo]
What about the Mac Mini? Makes sense to me.
Looks like a Spy Cam to me.
When I first bought a Nokia phone with Bluetooth and a camera I assumed I could stream the image to my computer as sort of a wireless web cam but that was not possible. Well, if it was I couldn’t figure out how to do it.
I did think it might be kinda cool to be able to have a phone stream images directly to my computer via Bluetooth. The closest thing I found was an app that had a motion sensor on it that you installed on the phone. When something in the frame moved it took a photo and then sent it to another phone VIA MMS. Sort of an instant and portable security camera. Sending the MMS was not consistent and it did not work that well.
I could see this being effective if lets say you wanted to keep an eye on the kids who are in one room “watching a movie” but your on a computer in another room. Essentially a portable spy camera is all.