{"id":6552,"date":"2009-05-06T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2013-03-08T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T18:23:08","slug":"blue-microphones-eyeball-webca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/blue-microphones-eyeball-webca\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Blue Microphones Eyeball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I got the opportunity to get out of the office and head down to beautiful Boca Raton Florida for a retailing conference. While I was there I got the opportunity to check out a ton of new products and services that are either new or coming to market.<\/p>\n<p>One product that caught my eye (no pun intended) was the Eyeball from <a title=\"blue microphones\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemic.com\">Blue Microphones<\/a>. Unless you&#8217;re a studio musician or into voice recording you&#8217;ve probably never heard of Blue Microphones. After all, they&#8217;re best known for making high-end microphones for likes of Cold Play.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no lead singer, but I do use many VoIP soft clients throughout the day. So when I found out that they had an HD voice and video webcam, I was excited to get my hands on it.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky for me, the great guys over at Blue Microphones stuck a demo unit in my bag. Unfortunately I&#8217;ve yet to play with the Eyeball (more on that when the review hits later this week), but from what I saw down in Boca, the Eyeball touts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A very cool retro design<\/li>\n<li>HD voice<\/li>\n<li>HD video with performance up to 30fps<\/li>\n<li>Ultra portability through an integrated stand and case<\/li>\n<li>Easy mounting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Blue Microphones Eyeball has a MSRP of $139.99, so it&#8217;s definitely more expensive than your run-of-the-mill webcam. Considering the promise of HD voice and video there might be a case.<\/p>\n<p><em>But will HD voice and HD video all wrapped into a slick retro wrapper be enough to turn me into a voice and audio snob?<\/em> Check back later this week for the answer (and a full product review)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I got the opportunity to get out of the office and head down to beautiful Boca Raton Florida for a retailing conference. While I was there I got the opportunity to check out a ton of new products and services that are either new or coming to market. One product that caught my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1028,1225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-looks","category-voip-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65133,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions\/65133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}