Webcam

I've just ordered a webcam with a flexible wire, something that I tried (without much success) to make myself using some copper wire and a spare USB to mini USB cable. I've actually ordered two, so someone else (I don't know who yet) might benefit from a webcam and hopefully engage in awesome videochat with me.

In related news I got an official nokia branded USB charger for my phone, problem is, it doesn't work when I got it plugged into my trusty old laptop, it works fine on Palmars computer which I now owe my phones life (or at least charged state) to. Maybe I need to find some way of plugging it into that elusive and secret third proprietary USB port on my computer that was most likely made for some arcane cd-rom drive that needed extra power but was never actually made.

The only way I could see this webcam-on-a-flexible-wire improved was if they made it with a built in microphone too, since it's USB it shouldn't really be a problem, my microphone died long ago, I found out last time I took my computer apart, one of the wires was broken and I'm not Leet enough with a soldering iron to fix it, I guess I have to get me a headset.

Oooh you know what would be really cool? That awesome new pair of two driver in-ear headphones from Apple that would go so great with that sweet sweet 32GB jailbroken iPod Touch with Fring. I'd just need some kind of adapter to make it into two normal headset minijacks. Then I could finally start using Skype with sound and video on my laptop with Xubuntu!

Via the gadget blog