In the southern China boom town of Shenzhen last month, four young women started up their own reporting team for a "shanzhai television station" that spoofs local news and uses a camera tripod fashioned from a fan stand and a toilet plunger.

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He whipped a black hood off a stand-up wooden camera, its 1938 receipt from Glasgow neatly tucked into its sides.

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Paying actors to voice an animated character is cheaper and more time efficient than paying them to stand in front of a camera.

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First, customers have to swipe their driving licence to prove they are 21, then they stand in front of a surveillance camera which beams their image to a call center where a state worker checks it against the licence.

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The biggest problem facing most of my speech and media training clients is that they change the way they talk once the video camera is on them or once they stand up to practice a speech.

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The business-class All-in-One offers options for a multipoint touchscreen, fixed or rotating camera, and an articulating stand to optimize the user's work experience.

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There is processing done at the camera and on the XBOX, but the user must stand in a certain place in the room and games are limited to non-complex titles that take minimal compute resources.

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"All I could do is just stand there with my camera and just keep photographing, but a little bit away from him so he could think and accept that maybe I photographed the panorama of the city, " Frank remembers.

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