Hackosis

Coming soon is a rad new program called CamSpace that lets you control your games and applications with a web cam and almost any object you choose.

From the FAQs:

1. What is “CamSpace” ?

CamSpace is a program that allows the user to control his favorite games and applications with any webcam. Use your body and arbitrary objects to replace the mouse and joystick!

Currently, CamSpace only works for Windows, but Mac and Linux versions are on the way…

2. What can I do with “CamSpace” ?

With CamSpace, You can do amazing things! You can use a paper plate as a racing wheel, you can control FPS games by moving your fingers, you can control music applications by moving in free space, the possibilities are endless!

CamSpace is an open platform that enables each and every one of us to create his own application in the language of his choice. You can either use CamSpace’s internal Emulation editor to connect it to any game, write a casual game or simple apps directly inside, or create a sophisticated software application that connects to CamSpace Automatically. Use C++, VB, VB.NET, C#, PYTHON or Delphi and get the tracking information easily from CamSpace API.

We here at Cam-Trax Technologies encourage you to create any application you can think about that benefits from the user’s natural movements in free space!

Check out the demo video:

Head over to the CamSpace site to sign up for the beta. Hopefully after it is release it will either be open source or freeware. They now only have a Windows client, but supposedly a Mac and Linux version is coming soon.

Lets hope they send the beta invite to me soon so I can test it out. Now I might have a good excuse to purchase a web cam - go CamSpace!

Tech.shantanugoel.com writes about how to create a do-it-yourself security system using nothing more than a Linux PC, Webcam, and a Twitter account.

No more brother, Mother, burglar, etc. stepping into your private space or home with out you knowing. Also, don’t forget about enabling Twitter mobile alerts for when a PC might be far from reach.

image via MShades

Webcam Timershot from Microsoft enables you to “you take pictures at specified time intervals from a Webcam connected to your computer and save them to a location that you designate.”

Use this to monitor your house when you are gone, monitor your server room, or maybe even your kids when the baby sitter is watching. Windows XP only.
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