Labs

Genius's Look 320S folds away into a compact cylinder shape when you're not using it. The base pulls apart to clip to a laptop display, but it falls off fairly easily. The clip's jaws aren't wide enough to accommodate an LCD monitor, either, and the base's small area makes it liable to topple easily when on a flat surface. Thankfully, the Look 320S is a fixed-focus webcam, so you don't need to adjust it. To keep everything neat, Genius supplies a removable USB cable rather than a captive cable as used by most webcams here.

The supplied DDPlaycam software didn't work in Windows Vista, and we had to download a Vista driver to get the webcam running. The supplied AmCap software is very basic, and is useful only for taking snapshots and recording short video files. Our pictures were slightly grainy but the colours were realistic. With an impractical design and a surprisingly high price, the 320S is only middling value.