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more about #webcams raincoaster: Awesome: in future, all HP monitors will come with vanity lighting. more » Xagest: Reminds me of the "Blink Check" feature on digital cameras these days. The thing is always firing off on my asian family.... more » HallaEks: Well, at least HP knows where the white women at. more » dimsum4u: Hahaha...wow this is hilarious. Where's jesse jackson? Ok he needs to now go get a few different black people and see if what HP is saying is correct ... more » MissNormaDesmond: Meanwhile, this video shows promise as a sense of humor detection tool. more » gaiking: "as soon as my blackness enters the frame"...awesome...just awesome. The guy does have a sense of humor about it. HP.....this is a FAIL for usefulness... more » maven2k: Man that was funny. That guy has a great sense of humor. more » Snes: Damnit! I knew being white would come back to bite me one day, now when HP computers rebel and start killing us, I'll be the first to go cause I'm white. more » fxsoap: Wow, this is hilarious, who did the testing on this? They obviously didn't do any beta testing on this for anyone other than light skinned people. more » helfrez: Sometimes the comments on the site get a bit off color and downright bad, but I am impressed that most people seemed to understand the guy was joking,... more » VonFeldt7: Ha ha, that's kind of funny.... At least the guy was being a good sport about it though. It would be a different story if he was suing them for 3M in... more » grubish1: They should change their name to Veridian Dynamics more » brahmachari99: I love how he was such a good sport about it. Better lighting might have solved the problem though. more » eam_assenav: OMG, its an episode of Better Off Ted!! (Racial Sensitivity [1.04]) Ted: The system doesn't see black people? Veronica: I know. Weird, huh? Ted: Th... more » amscopub-mail: As a minority myself who half-grew up in the US and half-grew up in El Salvador, I find it amusing that other minorities are so sensitive. It's like t... more » aec007: Funny!!!!! LOL. Back to coding HP!.. I wonder if Logitech web cams have the same problem, since the DO face tracking. more » relawson: i learned two things from this post. 1) hp's facial tracking software is bad at contrast in low light conditions 2) a LOT of people here watch some ... more » kabuk1: "Hewlett-Packard computahs are RACIST!" Jesus, what a douchebag idiot. He sounds like the black guy with the chip on his shoulder from The Animal. It... more » Bababoof is amazing: man that dude is funny. i lol'd when he said "negroes" more » dfp3050: hahahahahahaha. That just made my morning. more » -
#webcams
HP Face-Tracking Webcams Don't Recognize Black People
This is awkward. It appears that HP's new webcams, which have facial-tracking software, can't recognize black faces, as evidenced in the above video. HP has responded: -
#webcams
World's First USB 3.0 Webcam Streams Uncompressed 1080p Video
Point Grey demonstrated a new webcam using USB 3.0 that yields totally uncompressed video in 1080p at 60fps. It's definitely the sharpest webcam image I've ever seen, giving crystal-clear picture even on the huge 42-inch demo monitor. It's pretty stunning. More » -
#badideas
Japanese Erotic Game Uses Webcam for Boner Detection
How's this for a bad idea: Japanese erotic game Love Death 4 is using face tracking and shape detection to add a nice dose of horror to the game's already-questionable content. More » -
#webcams
Affective Interfaces' Webcam Software Reads Emotions
You don't know me, webcam! You think you can just see my face and read my emotions!? Yea, that is gonna be the fight I have with my webcam if Affective Interfaces ever releases its emotion sensing software. More » -
#webcams
Yoostar Green Screens You into Classic Movie and TV Scenes
Now you can desecrate your favorite movies and TV shows by using Yoostar's Webcam/microphone, green screen, and software to insert yourself into famous scenes. The results are easily uploaded to Yoostar.com, where you can also buy more scenes to use. More » -
#webcams
Coming Soon: Microsoft's Beefed-Up 720p LifeCam Cinema Webcam
Looks like Microsoft's working on a snazzy new glass lens Webcam capable of 720p video at 30fps (in full 1280x720 resolution). Other features are expected to include 4x digital zoom, and a built-in noise-cancelling microphone. More » -
#wrongmodo
Webcam Suicide Hoax and Bad Acting Result in Arrest
So this guy turns on a web cam and lays still on his back. Either he's related to your ex-girlfriend or he decided to fake a suicide. No matter, NY authorities didn't care and charged him for aggravated harassment. More » -
#logitech
Logitech Vid Easy Videoconferencing Comes to Seven New Webcams
Logitech's Vid system is hitting these seven new webcams, and signals that they really want the Vid system to be ubiquitous with Logitech webcams. More » -
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#doritos
Doritos' Late Night Augmented Reality Bags Are Like a Party at Taco Bell
These new bags of Doritos Late Night Taco-flavored chips (I just ate 50) are special not just because of what's inside, but what's on the bag. If you have a webcam, you can simulate a concert in a bag. More » -
#webcams
Samsung's New 24-Inch Monitor Comes With an Epic 5 Megapixel Webcam Tacked On
Samsung's gone and pasted a 5-megapixel webcam on the 24-inch Scopia VC240 monitor. Now we can finally see topless Jesus in all his HD glory! More » -
#crimevoyeurism
White Lady Logs Onto Home Webcam, Sees Dudes Robbing Her House
Not sure if I buy this: A lady who hasn't logged on to check her WiLife webcam in three months does because of a "sixth sense," and lo, there are two gentlemen burglarizing her home. More » -
#webcams
TIE Fighter and Lightsaber Webcams Are Meticulously Detailed, Conceptually Strange
If you're in the market for these products, you probably have a powerful imagination. Where, then, would you prefer to stare? Into the laser cannons of the TIE, or directly into the lightsaber's hilt? More » -
#mayhem
Volcano Eruption Caught on Webcams
Sometimes, those boring world webcams catch something exceptional, like this one near Mount Asama, an active volcano north of Tokyo which erupted without warning yesterday night. There are other beautiful frames from other angles. More » -
#webcams
Ecamm's BT-1 Bluetooth Webcam Is Exclusively Wireless, for Macs
Having built-in webcams on your Macs may be convenient, but physically turning your entire display whenever you want to focus on something other than your face is bothersome. Enter Ecamm's BT-1 $150 wireless Bluetooth webcam. More » -
#apple
Apple Patents iSight Cam Behind Laptop Screen, Will Hear From Errol Morris's Lawyers
A recent Apple patent for an iSight camera located behind the screen instead of above it sounds like a cool idea—too bad a system just like it has already been invented. More » -
#webcams
Samsung Webcam Sensor Handles 720p, Fits Inside Your Laptop Bezel
It's not the the advent of 720p webcamming that we're seeing here—it's just a change that means that it won't have to look like this, and will probably come built into mainstream notebooks. More » -
#lhc
LHC Webcams Depict Horrifyingly Singular Moment
In case you weren't paranoid enough knowing that there's a 14-mile particle accelerator complete with Black Hole Button currently operational on this, your most favorite of planets, here's a dose of meta-reality that will make your palms even sweatier, a glimpse of live webcams monitoring the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment. Once you're sufficiently freaked out, you can share it with your most skittish and/or ignorant friends and family members, and watch them squirm with palpable existential terror. [Cyriak - Thanks Josh!]
