Webcams – or live cams – are popular surfing destinations for the internet community, because they make it possible to take virtual trips, witness natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions from a safe distance, or simply see what the weather is like elsewhere. Incidentally, the oldest webcam in the world is a camera that went live in 1991 (sending to the World Wide Web from 1993 onwards, but has since been disconnected) that showed the fill level of the coffee machine in the legendary “Trojan Room” in the Computer Science Department at Cambridge University.
If you don’t care about coffee or the weather but do care about animals, you should check out the website https://explore.org/livecams. Here you can find an almost inexhaustible variety of curated live cam streams. Even if the structure seems somewhat random (the navigation consists of the sections Africa, Bears, Birds, Oceans, Cats, etc.), there is a large number of live cams worth seeing behind each section.
For example, you can watch cats in a British animal shelter, panda bears in a Chinese zoo, owls in Montana or elephants in Kenya in real time, there are also flashbacks and compilations. If you like it more relaxed, you can go to the “Zen Cams” section and see the northern lights, beaches or waterfalls. In the “Films” section, the website also has a media center with more than 150 documentaries worth seeing.
Now our question: We’re looking for the name of a virtual drum kit that uses a webcam to interpret a drummer’s movements and lets you play “air drums” in the truest sense of the word. Please email your suggested solution to [email protected].
The closing date for entries is April 13, 2022, 9 p.m. The answer to last week’s riddle was “RAL6017/Maigrün”, the winner will be notified in writing.