Huckleberry turns your iSight world around
Perhaps, at some sort of Mac geek gathering, you have witnessed the maneuver I call "the HighSight." This dance sensation is characterized by the hoisting of an iSight-enabled laptop into the air, lens towards the crowd, to capture a short video or a quick PhotoBooth still. Adding to the degree of difficulty and the ever-so-slightly-ridiculous appearance of the move is the iSight's angle of view back across the keyboard; much hinge bending ensues.eCamm Network can't stop you from using your $2,000 laptop as a gravity-defying $15 webcam, but they can make it a bit easier with the little plastic periscope they're calling Huckleberry (originally noted on TUAW when announced in October), shipping worldwide today. This little item (which might as well have escaped from MAKE's labs) will reorient your world and point your iSight's wee eye back over the other side of the laptop, easing the production of most anything that requires you to type and capture at the same time. $19.95 is the toll, and it ships with a license for their iChat customization tool iGlasses as well.
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Patrick Crosley said 2:22PM on 12-07-2006
Ever since I got my MacBook Pro I have wondered why Apple didn't house the iSight camera in a pivoting case that you could simply flick over to take pictures in the opposite direction. Seems to me it would not have been so hard to do.
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Brian Parry said 8:33PM on 12-07-2006
OK...Go! Who will be the first one to buy this, and then make your desktop the picture from the Huckster thingy. Viola! A realtime "see-through" screen illusion. I'd do it but I need the $20 for pr0n.
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dgtljunglist said 2:10AM on 12-08-2006
Patrick: the answer: not aesthetically pleasing.
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