Colin’s blog

I just came up with an interesting thought after hearing that you can stream online video live with a nokia 95n and looking at the dock connector for the touch thinking it would be cool to be able to do on the touch/iphone.

It seems like if the touch/iphone ever got flash support in safari it wouldn’t be hard for someone to make a usb webcam accessory using the usb pins on the dock connector. Most likely it wouldn’t need anything special software wise because of osx. It makes wonder if somewhere down the road we could see webcam accessories for both the touch and iphone that is if apple allows this.

of course you wouldn’t really need one on the iphone unless you wanted a better cam that might be adjustable too.

I’m actually tempted to try this if the time comes were there is flash support available in safari. I would by some generic el-cheapo usb webcam i know that works with a mac out of the box. Then get a dock connector and splice the correct usb cables together too see if it recognizes the device as a camera. Course i would have to get it right I don’t want to fry a $400 ipod now do I lol.