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I bought my family webcams. We now chat on Skype with video chat often. It’s really terrific. Setting it up was easy. I’d just VNC into their computer and set it up for them… I’d tell my cousin, “Put in the CD that came with the webcam” [click click click]. “Ok, now plug the webcam in”. [wait a moment] “Can you see yourself on the screen?

“Yes!”

“Ok, now I’ll sign you up for Skype and put you in my address book. [click click click] And I’ll call you. [ring ring] Can you see me and hear me on the computer?”

“Yes! Oh this is terrific!”

1968: “2001: A Space Odyssey” video phone

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2008: My aunt in Florida chatting with my cousins in Nashville

Here’s more images from SWARM at Coachella.

This first set is from JDV

Lisa and Mills and a totally awesome robotic sphere

An orb cheering at the Kraftwerk show

The orb whisperer

A very pretty orb indeed!

I shot these next pix

The orbs were quite popular with the ladies

We’re like famous!

Most of the crew (taken by Dean Gray of the Desert Local News)

It was a really nice bus ride. Jimmy from Green Tortoise drove us down and back again. Highly recommended :-)

“Fly! Fly and be freesued!”

I’m going to have to verify the claims made in this article about the allegedly superlatively litigious Wright Brothers before I fully believe it and mope for a week.