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Intel mix face-tracking and speech-recognition for better hands-free PC control

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 18th 2009 No Comments

If you’ve tried to use speech recognition to control your computer, then you may have experienced the frustration of finding “George, stop touching that!” transcribed into your letter to the bank since the system doesn’t differentiate between your dictation and your asides. Intel are hoping to put a stop to all that, with their integration of facial-recognition and speech-recognition; part of the company’s Research team experimentation, the prototype uses a webcam to track facial movement and only turn on speech-control when the user is facing their monitor.

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Microsoft HD LifeCam Cinema announced

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Aug 17th 2009 2 Comments

Microsoft announced a brand new webcam today with their LifeCam Cinema, which offers a true HD experience in 720p resolution. It can capture 30 frames per second and offers high quality at an affordable price.

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Logitech reveals new HD webcam, others

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Jul 29th 2009 No Comments

Logitech announced updates to their entire webcam line today, revealing seven brand new models, the best of which, the Webcam Pro 9000, features HD capture at 720p with supporting applications.

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Minoru 3D webcam gets tested [Video]

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 17th 2009 No Comments

We first saw the Minoru 3D webcam back in October 2008, but the first reviews are only just coming in now. Crave managed to get their hands on the double-camera gadget and shot some test images and video, finding it to be a surprisingly straightforward way of getting a 3D effect.

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Sony PlayStation Eye to get facial recognition

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 17th 2009 No Comments

Sony have revealed plans to add facial recognition capabilities to their PlayStation Eye webcam, potentially stealing part of Microsoft’s Project Natal thunder. According to Kish Hirani, Sony Europe’s head of developer services, the functionality will soon be added to the existing hardware, with developer libraries available for games studios so that they don’t need to exert effort specifically coding for the new system.

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AndRovio: remote control Rovio from your Android phone

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jun 17th 2009 No Comments

If the thought of remotely controlling you Rovio robot webcam from a cellphone is appealing, but you don’t have a BlackBerry, then AndRovio may be the solution. Poignant Projects’ app runs on Android devices, and allows full control of Rovio including live webcam viewing, camera position control and snapshots.

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Chiara Robot with WiFi b/g, articulated claw & Pico-ITX brain [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 16th 2009 No Comments

Autonomous, intelligent robots are great, but when they look like classic Transformers characters they’re even better. The handiwork of Mellon University’s Tekkotsu lab, the Chiara Robot has six independent legs, a claw arm with six degrees of freedom, and a combination of webcam and IR rangefinder for spotting objects and obstacles. Even better, this is no simple lab project: the Chiara Robot will actually be manufactured and sold by RoPro Design.

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D-Link DCS-1100 and DCS-1130 IP webcam promise simple setup

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 15th 2009 No Comments

d link dcs 1100 network webcam D-Link have announced two new network webcams which promise plug-and-play remote viewing using the company’s online streaming portal. The D-Link Network Camera DCS-1100 launches today, while the DCS-1130 – with WiFi draft-n – arrives later in the month.

Both cameras can be accessed from any browser by going to D-Link’s mydlink.com portal. However they can also be used to stream live video to cellphones, with sound from the integrated microphone and remote control of 16x digital zoom and motion detection.

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Muvi Micro Camcorder also works as webcam

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jun 11th 2009 No Comments

Tiny gadgets have an unmistakable allure, so a 5.5 x 2 x 2 cm camcorder is always going to catch our eye. The Muvi Micro Camcorder is apparently the smallest in the world, but marketing hyperbole aside it does offer a compact way to capture VGA 640 x 480 25fps video to microSD card.

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PCCW Eye 2 IPTV, VoIP & UMPC leaks

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jun 3rd 2009 No Comments

Color us a little confused on this one, but we’ll never knowingly turn down a cool touchscreen tablet. According to our tipster, you’re looking at the 8-inch wireless control unit for Hong Kong telecoms provider PCCW’s new Eye 2 service, which will blend multimedia services like NowTV, Moov and Snaap! with video calling.

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