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I would pay for a good enough telepresence application for keeping in touch with my family and friends (they're in the UK, I'm in San Francisco). Skype is bett
by abstractbill 18y ago
I would pay for a good enough telepresence application for keeping in touch with my family and friends (they're in the UK, I'm in San Francisco).
Skype is better than nothing, but still not good enough.
- davidw 18y agoYeah, that's tough. It's even worse when you have a small baby and the grandparents are far away:-/ Here's an idea for someone: Virtual Grandpa - some sort of telepresence thing that's been made a bit robust so that a kid can drag it around and drop it without problems. Maybe like a robust cell phone with a decent size screen and camera? I actually wouldn't mind working on that too, but feel free to run with it. The big problem is probably finding hardware that will work: cheap, robust, and more or less customizable so that the parents can fiddle with it to 'tune in', and then lock it to some degree.
- comatose_kid 18y agoGreat idea. A Chumby with a built-in video camera + gtalk/video support might fit the bill.
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