I despise the whole concept of s****** (I can't even type the word). There was a time when you would have been ridiculed for taking so many pictures of yourself. Or been advised to seek professional help. Just as bad as seeing people's washed-out bloated faces doing their webcam monologues. If only iPhones would shoot pepper spray when they detected a s*****.

Went there with my daughter (also a fan). There is a video cam outside the studios

http://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing

You can access the cameras archives and get a pic of yourself doing whatever crossing thing you're doing. I have a pic of me taking a pic of the webcam.

Yeah man, now get that new spankin' puter and while yer at it, invest in a webcam with a less viscous lens.....

just because you Have a webcam, doesn't mean you should Use a webcam

Webcam captures artist's 736+ hour performance piece has been added as a related post - related requested by Lann.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Webcam-captures-artist-s-736-hour-performance-piece

>> ^grinter:

Couldn't each ground unit just flash with a unique id code? ...and couldn't each instruction from the aerial unit then use a coded prefix to direct individual ground units? ...and couldn't that happen on the millisecond time scale?
The disco lights don't seem very efficient?


The problem is that the "skybot/drone" is using a relatively inexpensive webcam. These things don't have a very good framerate, and there are a lot of factors that ccould drop frames. If any frame is dropped, then it would misinterpret the "ID" of the ground robot. A webcam is good at discerning red vs. green vs. blue. Something that is faster- IR from a TV remote- has the problem of being non-dimensional, so the drone wouldn't know which ground robot was "talking". Something that might be neat would be the 2D IR sensor from a WiiMote, but I'm not sure what kind of framerate those are capable of.

Also, adding extra sensors to the drone, or getting better ones, or using a faster cpu, would not only increase cost, but more importantly decrease battery life of the drone.

Probably the speed of the LED blinking identification was slowed down for this demo, so it could be explained to the viewers. It's likely capable of going much faster.

The main problem I see in "real world" application is daylight - if it's bright outside, it's much harder to discern color. But at least if our robot overlords attack at night, we'll see them coming in rainbow glory!

Hello ♥

I am a cat.

When I was a kitten I would go with friends on webcam.

Then got called stunning, beautiful, purrfect etc...

>> ^Sniper007:

Gotta love the hackers hacking: Smashing as many keys as possible, as fast as possible, while staring unflinchingly at the monitor.

...In balaclavas so nobody can see their face on the webcam they have inexplicably left on.

In reply to this comment by legacy0100:
*promote LOLOLOLLL Moms lol

Thank you my friend!!!

>> ^chingalera:

These editorials from TYT...Still reek of the worst form of journalistic tripe. C & A use the same basic formula that keeps Murdoch's crap-riddled "media" empire afloat;
Sensationalism, inane editorial on current events, and smug gibbering about celebrities and volatile subject matter. That they are so popular here on Videosift is not surprising-Neither is Rupert's net worth considering the herd-mentality that keeps it afloat.
Question: If we are supposed to "sift" through the video offerings on the internet and embed the best here, why are ALL of the segments ever cranked-out by these wanna-be hacks embedded on this site??
Answer: "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"


But who are you chastising? The people who vote democratically for it or against it (and they seem to vote for it), or the people who post it for it to be voted on?

I can't watch cenk, i think he has a great mind for doing this kind of thing, but until he can siphon out the 30000 miles per hour hyperactivity and fluff and deliver it in a good way, i can't watch. But videosift will continue to sift up whatever is popular and sift down whatever is not!

I get sick when i see the 3 billionth pomplamoose video being posted on the strength of having a very plain/oddly pretty girl with her face 3 inches from a webcam, but that's just what people like. I think this has a lot more content than that at least; there's a lot worse things you could get annoyed about first.

Simple - put a sticker over the lens of your webcam when you aren't using it.
Not sure about the audio though.

Ironic that a segment about a gigapixel camera was shot with a blurry webcam.

Tape/Disable/Disconnect the camera?

Not sure how to do that with internal mic though. I don't have a webcam and mic on my IBM PCs for that reason.

Check this out...

http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-Super-MacroMicroscope-Webcam-Conversion/

http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/microscopy/