I so want to hook this pen webcam to Skype video. The eTime Home Endoscope (EHE) works as a digital microscope. It includes light sources, close-up optics, accessories to help you channel light and insert the camera into tight places. The EHE retails for under US$90.

I cannot come close to Dan's Data's comprehensive review. He analyzes the video and puts the camera through its paces (caution: microscopic photos of the insides of noses, ears, scalps, keyboards).

Devices like this are important to the Skype economy. eBay sellers will give intimate tours of intricate products, like coins, jewelry and other collectibles. Engineers will be able to inspect devices for quality. Doctors will be able to inspect wounds.

Skype is a conversational conduit, a channel for speech, sounds, video, words, pictures. The more things we can share through this channel, the more useful the channel becomes.

I use the free Nyanyan Desktop Filter to share my Windows desktop as my "webcam". Mellanium pipes flythroughs of their 3D models and simulations to clients through Skype video. Every reason to share music and laboratory visualizations through Skype.