Nowadays thanks to services such as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, and of course the ubiquitous Skype.  The drawback to those messengers are shoddy resolutions and shaky framerates.

The inPerson was designed to eliminate everything you hate about old videoconferencing.

Features:

• 7-inch widescreen LCD
• 640 x 480 resolution
• 76 deg. Wide-angle lens
• Support for NTSC and PAL formats (talk to your buddies across the Atlantic)

The device connects via 10/100 Base-T, or you can go wireless via the internal receiver/transmitter up to 802.11g.