She sees her sister-in-law on the Web cam and asks if she's lost weight.
But for now, the couple communicates through a Web cam connection over the Internet.
But Adam Wagner, who traveled from two counties north, says the Web cam is a great idea.
Last year, a 19-year-old in Florida committed suicide on web cam.
For all their distance, Ramon and Ana Lobo keep up the mundane chit chat of married life through their regular Web cam sessions.
At least one 20 year old woman put a sticker over her web cam when it continually went on without her doing anything.
Her brother intended her to use the Web cam mostly to communicate with family members who are spread out across the country, she said.
When David wants to send a video message to someone, he records it either on his built-in computer Web cam or on a Flip camera.
With BMW for instance, consumers can visit a Web page and print off a simple bar code which they then show in front of their Web cam.
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This is the law that was used to prosecute Dharun Ravi for using a web cam to surreptitiously stream his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi during a sexual encounter.
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Instead of kidding yourself that a particularly nice get-up on the screen will fit, you can look at a virtual representation of the clothes on your body via a Web cam.
On a day when thousands of people around the world are preparing to explain how a web cam works to elderly relatives in a vain attempt to wish them a merry Christmas, some may just go straight to the old-fashioned use of a telephone.
An optional, integrated web-cam is now available in the venerable DV1000, which appears to have a new DV1000t designation.
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