iChat AV
Denny and I did an iChat AV last night with the iSights in our laptops. It was really cool. I’ve only done that a handful of times in the past, and that was when the other person had a camera and I didn’t, so it was one-way for video (though two-way for audio), and it was always pretty laggy.
It worked great last night, though.
One thing that crossed my mind is that this technology is going to make it more difficult to explain certain concepts to children. When I was a little kid, my dad told me that Bert and Ernie could not, in fact, see me through the television. I didn’t believe him for a while, though it did eventually sink in.
Kids nowadays are going to have a good argument to the contrary:Â “But Grandma can see me on the computer.”
I guess the next step is explaining that Grandma is a human with eyes made of eye jello, and Bert and Ernie are puppets with eyes made of felt.
It is all potentially confusing. James tricked me into visiting the Apple store over the weekend, and I have to admit they’re pretty cool. I think we’ll be getting one soon…
“eye jello”
Vitreous humour.
Nah, I like “eye jello” better.