Mozilla has adopted two real Firefox cubs (aka red panda cubs) which live at Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee. Mozilla has set up a dedicated website to track the progress of the Firefox cubs. You can watch them on webcam and follow them on Twitter. When Firefox 4 hits its next download target, Mozilla plans to reward Cub Number One and Cub Number Two with a jungle gym to play in. Quick! Get downloading, the Firefox cubs are depending on you!
Out now | £free | Firefox Cubs
Logitech has unveiled a bunch of new webcams, including a top of the range model capable of capturing every inch of your mug in pristine 1080p quality. The Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910 will only record video in 1080p – it must be a little too hefty to broadcast direct over the web – but will allow you to make video calls in the slightly-less sharp 720p HD format.
ProForma, a project developed by a Cambridge University PHD student, could mean your ordinary webcam will be able to scan 3D objects, instantly. Read on to have your mind blown…
Google Maps just added a Webcams layer, which updates locations with live views from webcams in the area. Somebody better tell those villagers to get their pitch forks out again, because here comes another privacy protest.
Snooping from afar just got a lot easier with WowWee’s newest surveillance bot, the Spyball. It’s a spherical robot, designed to roll around before popping out a webcam to beam live pictures over the web.
With the news that Sky is planning 3D broadcasts still ringing in our ears, we’ve just got word of the world’s first 3D webcam. Dubbed the Minoru, it uses twin cameras, three inches apart, to simultaneously capture two slightly different pictures, then weaves them together into a single three dimensional image.
Fed up of webchats in crusty low-res? 
