Logitech recently released “QuickCam® Pro 9000”. It can shoot up to 8MP photos (enhanced) and the best video you have ever seen from a webcam. It also offers Video affects, Fun Filters, RightLight™2 Technology for correct lightning and integrated microphone with the RightSound technology.

It’s thrilling to see such technology hitting the markets and it is even more exciting when its reasonably cheap.

This cam costs US $99.

The camera comes loaded with lots of features. Automatic Light Adjustment, 1.3 Megapixel camera, 640×480 video resolution, Parental control (first of its kind in webcam technology) and bundled with video effects. The package includes a good looking hands free headset and for uninterrupted video calls.

Cam Optia is priced at $79.99 and is available at us.creative.com

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Such cameras are generally used for traffic monitoring, vigilance or for monitoring a construction sites. As these cameras are easy to install and use anyone can buy and get it up and running in no time. If that sounds like an advantage for this product, let me tell you its not! Why?

Because these cameras are easy to install most of the users don’t bother to set up the security on this camera as a result the camera is viewable to everyone on the Internet. Read the whole article to know how to view these cameras on-line.

Here is the query you can type in Google to view all the open cameras
Query: inurl:/view/index.shtml

Here are couple of interesting ones
http://webcam04.deg.net/view/index.shtml?videos=one (The most complicated railway tracks I have seen so far)
http://80.122.12.94/view/index.shtml?videos=one (A beautiful mountain with lake and houses next to it)
http://eyet-tech.homeip.net/view/index.shtml?videos=one (A computer shop in Germany)
http://194.69.6.38/view/index.shtml  (Ice Ski Ground)
http://webcam.oii.ox.ac.uk/view/index.shtml?videos=one (Oxford City Center)
http://74.65.153.170:7979/view/index.shtml  (Saco River just off the coast of Biddeford, Maine)
http://campuscentercam.its.wesleyan.edu/view/index.shtml (Football field and University of Wesleyan)

That’s all guys, try the query mentioned above to view countless number of live on-line cameras and next time you set a network camera make sure the security is setup properly.

This issue was originally brought up by Fox News last week.