Alan Carr

But there's something delightfully old-school about sitting in the BBC - obviously wearing a bow tie and monocle - with a co-presenter who forgets there's a webcam in there. It's also nice to hear from the general public when they're not swearing at you or asking to extend their credit limit.

English Comedian

Chad Hurley

People want to see something authentic. If it's too polished and highly produced, people might not trust it as much. If it's grainy, if it's coming from a webcam, if it's someone standing there and talking their mind or sharing their thoughts, people trust it much more.

American Businessman

Ann Cleeves

The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.

British Writer

Emma Chamberlain

During the middle of sophomore year, my friends and I would get bored at lunch, so we would film videos on my computer webcam of us dancing in the gym to Christmas music.

American Entertainer

Simone Giertz

As for making video comedy, pretty much anyone can do it. When I got started, I just filmed it with my webcam and used iMovie to edit the video, which I still use.

Swedish Inventor

Tina Fey

Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.

American Comedian

Rana el Kaliouby

We can read your heart rate from a webcam without you wearing anything - we can just use the reflection of your face, which shows blood flow.

Egyptian Scientist

Ray William Johnson

As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.

American Actor

Webcams require a good internet connection for clear video transmission during online communications.

Internet Connection

Cover your webcam or turn it off when not in use to protect your privacy from unauthorized access or hackers.

Privacy Concerns

Webcams are commonly built into laptops but can also be separate devices connected to desktop computers.

Peripheral Device

 I was able to illustrate to you just how powerful this technology can be. And I'd like to point out that I wasn't using any special equipment, just my laptop and a really simple webcam. We're so used to using digital technology to communicate through voice and text and video, but augmented reality can do something so much deeper.

How augmented reality...

 And she is the most wonderful animal, I've ever been around. She really is extraordinary. And, you know, she has her own webcam. You guys probably have that. There was a point there where she got a little freaked out because somebody came by with that Burt's Bees stuff, and she thought it was a bee and so she was afraid.

National Geographic...

 This is perhaps my favorite. I'm just going to zoom in a little bit onto his webcam. You can see there's a little sticker that's placed over his camera. He knows what kind of surveillance is possible, and so clearly he doesn't want it to be used against him. Muench has said that he intends for his software to be used

Christopher Soghoian:...

 actually a shrimp that's releasing its bioluminescent chemicals into the water but the cool thing is we're talking to it we don't know what we're saying personally I think it's something sexy and then finally I want to show you some responses that we recorded with the world's first deep-sea webcam which we

The weird, wonderful...

 it's easy to find the good stuff when you found it you can watch it in close-up repeatedly and read what hundreds of people have written about it that's a lot of life but the desire element is really you know dialed way up I mean you might just be a kid with a webcam but if you can do something that

Chris Anderson: How...

 I had to rely on other people to create the content for the art? So for six days, I lived in front of a webcam. I slept on the floor and I ate takeout, and I asked people to call me and share a story with me about a life-changing moment.

Embrace the Shake PIPE Phil...

 world around us this is an example from a new version of scratch that we'll be releasing in the next few months and we're looking again to sort of be push you in new directions here's an example he uses the webcam and as I move my hand

Let's teach kids to code...

 and this other group, the orange group, did not." Or I said the "Your group didn't wait for two marshmallows and this other group did." And then I left the kid alone in the room and I watched on a webcam to see how long they waited.

How your brain's...

 But the cool thing is, we're talking to it. We don't know what we're saying. Personally, I think it's something sexy. And then finally, I want to show you some responses that we recorded with the world's first deep-sea webcam,

Edith Widder: The weird...

 this almost real-time and you know it's like a it's a webcam for the earth basically and so tomorrow I highly encourage everyone to go check it out the camera is called epic so you know the pictures are going to be awesome