anyone have a gemini/philips j44417/p44417s
i saw this at walmart for $15.
it captures pictures and video at 288x352, and even better, it's a usb webcam for $15.
note the complete lack of mac or linux support, not that that should surprise you. what surprised me was that, given the price and hackability of this little thing, no enterprising linux hacker had tried to write a driver, so says google:Your search - p44417s linux - did not match any documents.
Your search - p44417s mac os x - did not match any documents.
well, crap. i am halfway considering just spending the $15 on it and giving a go at writing a driver, or sending it to the webcam-osx folks for their enjoyment. if someone could hack up a driver, i can think of a lot of a lot of uses for cheap-ass $15 webcams.
(from what i can find, the product name in full is "philips keychain digital camera", the product number is P44417S, and it's the newest iteration of an earlier, non-webcam version (J44417) made by gemini (and perhaps rebranded philips))