iPhone video conferencing hack wins C-4 developer award

Over the weekend the hackers, tweakers and general-fiddlers gathered together at the C-4 developer conference and voted for the most creative iPhone hack as part of the “Iron Coder Live” contest.  The rules demand that the hack be a short-term project, but that didn’t stop this year’s winners - Glen and Ken Aspeslagh - from setting their sights high.  They came up

with a two-way videoconferencing app for the iPhone, tackling issues such as getting video from the usually-image-only camera, compressing it to fit nicely by an EDGE connection, and even matters of placement (Apple thoughtlessly neglected to put a camera on the front of the iPhone).

 

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Original post by Chris Davies