The best hacks are often the simplest. FourEyes3D is one of these, and it takes a pair of standard webcams and uses them to make a stereo video, letting you beam your ugly mug in three glorious dimensions to anyone who can be convinced to watch.

Hook up the cams and the software (Mac-only) combines the two feeds into one stereoscopic image. The trickiest part is the actual positioning of the cameras, as the developer tells us: “The finicky part is mounting your matched pair of generic USB webcams 90 millimeters apart (the same distance apart as your own eyes).”

Best of all, you don’t need any fancy displays to view the 3D video. All you need is to send mom a pair of red/cyan specs and she can peek at your z-axis over your next iChat video call. This is because the stereo images from the cameras are converted to the old 1950s-style, headache-inducing anaglyph method. I think this would be a lot of fun, especially on my weekly family Skype calls. Just whether it would be $30 worth of fun is another matter, but there is a demo available.

Verizon have announced a new set of prepaid data plans that the carrier is hoping will lure in some occasional mobile users currently turned-off by the contract offerings.  As of November 16th, the Verizon Wireless USB760 modem will be available with a $15 daily access rate (with a 75MB allowance); alternatively the carrier is offering weekly or monthly rates.

For a weekly allowance of 250MB, you’re looking at $30, while 500MB to use in the course of a month is $50.  The USB760 itself has a memory card slot for up to 8GB of storage, and is Windows and Mac compatible.  We’d still recommend looking at Virgin Mobile’s pre-pay mobile data plan, however, as its rates undercut those of Verizon.

At first this ruler flash drive seemed more ridiculous than useful.  However, after looking it over, it’s actually not such a bad idea.  After all, school aged kids do need rulers every so often for their school work.  This would mean they’d have both their school papers saved and handy as well as the ruler always around.  Plus the drive could also function as a bookmark and hold their place in any school books.

This isn’t something I could see the average adult really fully utilizing, but students could quite easily benefit from the design.  It doesn’t hold a whole lot, just 2GB of data.  That would be enough though for the average younger student that merely has a few papers that they need to store on the drive.  It’s not going to cost you a horrific amount either, so if they lose it, it’s not the end of the world.  To pick one up it’ll cost you $29.99 from Audio Cubes.