We’ve all been there. It’s late at night, you’re thousands of miles away from your significant other and you’re going through withdrawals from not getting you daily ration of lovin’.

The only two choices you have to help “alleviate” the situation are to spend a few hours visiting certain types of websites, or to “chat” with your soul mate via web cams. Since your parents frown on those random $29.99 charges on your “emergency” credit card, you both opt to go the web cam route. You think to yourself, “God this is going to be SO FRICKIN HOT!” And it would be - Except there’s one little problem.

Sitting on top of both your monitors are your piece of plastic crap Wal-Mart special web cams. After you both log on you quickly realize it’s really hard to get your virtual freak on when what you’re seeing is very similar to the scrambled satellite porn you used to watch as a kid. It also doesn’t help when you have to keep asking each other to repeat instructions because the little pin-hole microphone in your web cam also sucks like no other technology has ever sucked before.

This little scenario happens every day. But thanks to the uber smart guys at Blue Microphones, it doesn’t have to happen to you ever again.

Ladies and Gents, meet the Eyeball.

The Eyeball USB web cam is the alpha and the omega of web cams. It delivers CD-quality audio via its massive condenser capsule that has been the cornerstone of Blue microphones for years. Yelling instructions into your tiny plastic microphone are now replaced with whispers that sound like you’re in the same room together.

Behind the awesomely chunky mic lives an innovative lens that not only delivers amazing HD-quality resolution, but also flips in and out so you don’t accidentally broadcast “things” you don’t want the rest of the world to see. Instead of trying to decipher what looks like a Picasso painting on your monitor, you’ll be able to count each little freckle as if you were looking at them with your own eyeball.

The Eyeball is a driverless, plug-and-play unit that works with both Mac and PC. Its integrated stand is adaptable to fit on any monitor or stand-alone desktop. And when it’s not in use, the Eyeball folds neatly into itself so it doesn’t get mangled riding around in your backpack.

You can pick up your own Eyeball for around $99.99 at www.bluemic.com, The Apple Retail Store, or wherever high-quality pro-audio products are sold.