Colour webcam at its best! CMOS optical sensor, high speed USB, backlight compensation, auto exposure and auto white balance are what you can expect when you hook this little webcam to your computer. Gooseneck strength, this baby doubles as a laptop light. Now, when you are chatting with your friends you can do it in style. Nicely designed, and plug and play ready, the SPC610NC will take super digital still shots. With the strong gooseneck, you can position it in any position needed for optimum use and lighting. This product is great for those days when weather hampers your usual visits to friends and family. Retail stores are reporting nothing but good things about this versatile cam/light and how personal it can make a great deal of distance seem. Although digital is what it is it only produces a VGA quality picture and video stream. With most PCs running Widows XP there is no difficulty in the operation of the webcam, and the light operates manually which means you can turn it off when you want to and there’s no fidgeting with software.

If you are in college, there are a number of uses for this little cam/light; some we won’t go in to, but the one’s we can talk about are study groups, face to face visits around the world with your parents with long drives or flights to home. While there is nothing that can substitute love with skin on it, this is a great way to second best your desires to see mom and dad. Students, think about it, you can do the ‘family thing’ right from your dorm or apartment. It even makes “please send money” a little more personal. Philips is right up there with you in trying to make time away from seem a little closer to home.