interesting application, anybody at skype tried this already. maybe it's a great tool for blind people to create some vision. i don't know. just reading what you just wrote.

Great story and this is true social networking at its best, particularly liked the idea of Skype helping homebound people help blind people, perhaps even to get a job as a team?

It would be great if Webcam vendors could come up with a highly polished solution for Skype HQ capable wearable wireless Webcams (sure for reliability bandwidth needs to be managed), with zoom, rotate etc. (Carl Zeiss lens?). Clearly size, bandwidth and power needs are critical considerations.

Other applications are remote technical support (i.e. what IS that user really doing/seeing).

Keep up the good work Ed and Skype!

Wow so awesome. But the problem that I see with it is that you have to have a friend who has absolutely nothing to do all day who can be on call all day long. Or unless Skype comes out with a service with people sitting at computers waiting for blind people to call to get help. I'd be willing to do that, I could use an extra income hehe.