Webcam Oddly Adds Bulit-in USB Speaker to the Feature Mix

Forget your fancy webcams with their high-end consumer features (and their need for separate speakers); a company called Giz Fever has a plug and play USB webcam that looks like it’s got the bare necessities necessary to video chat and maybe record a low-fi video or two. As an added bonus, the camera comes with its own USB speaker, which we can only hope has some sort of block separating it from the microphone (perhaps that’s the "Hi-Fi Baffle Box" Giz Fever mentions in the specifications?) to prevent the horrible screech of feedback.

To be honest, we’re not sure why you’d need a speaker on your webcam; these days, how many computers come without some sort of speaker (external or built-in) such that you’d need another speaker on your webcam? We guess the price is right, internal speaker or not, but it strikes us as a bit of an odd indulgence.