{"id":379,"date":"2007-09-14T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2007\/09\/14\/gimpcam-and-netcam\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:05:11","slug":"gimpcam-and-netcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2007\/gimpcam-and-netcam\/","title":{"rendered":"GimpCam and NetCam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of questions about GimpCam and NetCam recently. To save me feeling like a broken record, here&#8217;s a selection of pre-prepared answers &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes I did look like a gimp while wearing it<\/li>\n<li>No I&#8217;m not going to lend it to you to wear to school<\/li>\n<li>No it doesn&#8217;t have X-ray vision<\/li>\n<li>No I don&#8217;t use it to spy on girls in the changing room<\/li>\n<li>No I&#8217;m not going to lend it to you for that purpose!<\/li>\n<li>No I&#8217;m not going to buy a pinhole camera instead (too expensive)<\/li>\n<li>Yes GimpCam and NetCam have the same internals<\/li>\n<li>It cost $80 from a dodgy computer store in SE Calgary<\/li>\n<li>Yes NetCam is housed inside a tupperware container and no I&#8217;m not going to integrate it inside the goal post instead<\/li>\n<li>Yes GimpCam looks stupid and no it can&#8217;t fit inside the lip at the top of my helmet<\/li>\n<li>Yes I am considering allowing goalies to wear GimpCam but I need to find an appropriate way to protect it as its unlikely to survive a puck impact in it&#8217;s current form<\/li>\n<li>No I&#8217;m not planning to stream it direct to a projector screen in the warm room<\/li>\n<li>Last of all, <strong>NO<\/strong>! You are not allowed to fire slapshots at my head while I&#8217;m wearing GimpCam!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[MEDIA=46]<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">GimpCam<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[MEDIA=45]<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">NetCam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of questions about GimpCam and NetCam recently. 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