Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting and self cleaning .
Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.
It is also featured in the MoMA online exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind”. It has been a collaboration project of Nokia Research Center and Cambridge Nanoscience Center.

Skyfire is a new web browser, available as a beta, that allows you to view the PC web on a mobile phone. It uses a zoom in control not unlike the Apple Iphone…except its not finger touch driven.

Web browsing via phone has increased since the Iphone came out. This has been attributted to the better web experience on the Iphone. Skyfire looks like the next part of the story.

“Skyfire is the first mobile browser to support rich media content and full Javascript on a mobile device. Skyfire allows you to browse sites like YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps and Last.fm on your mobile phone.”

Check out Skyfire here: www.skyfire.com

This phone is from Sony Ericsson – the T shaped menu system is a great idea

A new feature has been added to the Archive section. A time lapse animation will automatically play for all EyeSpyFX Webcam v3 cams who select to make an archive. You can set the archive to record every 10 mins, 30 mins, hour, three hours, day, etc. Its a great way to quickly review what happened during the day. You can play the animated movie forwards or backwards in time. You can aslo skip 10 frames at a time.

Here is an example



The Live List is a key page in the EyeSpyFx website. Here is a guide to the features and icons that are used on the Live List. teh default setting in EyeSpyFx webcam software is that cams appear on the live list. Many people choose to switch their cams of and access them by using there PIN code. The same PIN code can be used to access a cam via your phone using Phone StreamFX.

At least two Robot webcams were unveiled at CES this week

Sypke is from Meccano

and Rovio is from WowWee

Could this be the begining of telepresence in the home? Here are some video’s of them in action.

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Here are two more fun webcams.
This time for the holiday season they are Christmas themed.

1. Alexs Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease
Turn on and off a house full of christmas lights, inflate and deflate inflatable decorations (very fun), and watch it all on three seperate webcams.

The site layout could use a little cleaning up, but the interaction with the Christmas decorations is great, and its for a good cause.
(It helps to raise money for research into an autoimmune disorder called Celiac Disease).

You can only control the lights from 4PM MST (thats 11PM GMT) for 7 hours.

2. Control The Show
Turn off and on 12 different sets of christmas lights on this house from the webpage.

The layout is cleaner but I didn’t have as much fun as I did on Alex’s Controllable Christmas Lights. No inflatable decorations or Christmas music. Still very cool though, and there must have been alot of people viewing the controlling the lights. They were blinking on and off all the time.

You can control the lights from 5PM EST ( thats 10PM GMT) for 8 hours

If you enjoyed these cams, click here to see some more.

Earth Cam announce top 25 most interesting webcams in the world

http://www.earthcam.com/top25/2007/

One of EyeSpyFX’s customers the famous “notallmine.net” Condo Cam from Chicago has made the list

This is what the competition orgainisers said:

“We are delighted to recognize the talent, hard work and leadership of the winning webcam site creators and managers as they inform, educate and entertain the world. They are among the elite of the Internet,” said Brian Cury, CEO and Founder of EarthCam. “We are also grateful for the time and efforts of EarthCam’s VIP judging panel this year that included two movie industry giants, Michael Bay and Barry Josephson.”

Read more here:
http://www.earthcam.com/press/press_details.php?id=337