Valentina Gribkova and her daughter are nature lovers. Especially the more delicate side of it. "Winter is a time when the humming birds come back to Silicon Valley," Valentina says. And every year they’re out there watching these delicate creatures make their rounds from flower to flower looking for that sweet nectar.

So to catch these beautiful little creatures, Valentina and her daughter attached an XCam2 to their 200x telescope so that they could have front row seats without disturbing the show.

But it’s not just the hummingbirds that catch the Gribkova’s fancy. It seems that nature has much to show off around the Gribkova’s residence. "By using the XCam2 with their telescope, we’ve been able to watch deer, eagles, and other animals in the mountains around our house," Valentina says.

"One very cool application," Valentina says, "is to place X10's Anaconda camera (wired, with a 60 foot cord) in a Plexiglas waterproof box with a lantern inside, and feed the Anaconda's cord through a garden hose. Carefully attach the hose to the box so it provides an airtight connection. Then back above water, plug the end of the Anaconda cable into a TV or VCR. Then lower the hose and box into the water. It delivers color underwater images about 20 meters in depth." And that's not all. She tells us that "you can observe and record various fish and coral. Even search for shipwrecks!" The whole underwater world is at your disposal.