Apologies to Dr. Peter Venkman, but it's hard to believe that it's taken this long for a webcam vendor to encroach on the vacuum left by the discontinued iSight, even though we have hints that a new model of the Apple camera might be on the HD horizon. Logitech has now announced the QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac, featuring "premium autofocus technology and Carl Zeiss® optics." No word on whether the camera will feature fine Corinthian leather or Posi-traction, but there's hope.Seriously, though, the camera does offer a voice coil motor for autofocus, RightLight exposure technology and a 2 megapixel sensor; this should allow for VGA-quality (640x480) videoconferencing and 720p HD (960x720) local video recording. Snazzy! Logitech expects to ship the unit in July for an SRP of $130.
Update: Commenters point out that the product is quite similar to the QuickCam Pro 9000, which isn't billed as Mac-compatible but actually works just fine with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5; it's also list-priced $30 cheaper. Hrm.
[via Engadget]
Here's a nice, easily overlooked tidbit from the 
If you're excited about 
Gawker is a really interesting open source app that takes a very
simple, yet powerful, approach to capturing time-lapse videos from an iSight camera - be it your own or someone else's.
As you can see in this image, Gawker can utilize smart networking abilities of Bonjour to see if any other Macs on your
network are running Gawker with an iSight, or you can enable iSight access over the web. You even have control over
image quality, resolution and fps.
