Emac and ichat camera recommendation

I'm planning on buying a new imac shortly and I'm thinking of giving my emac to my parents mainly for video chatting. Can someone recommend a camera I can send along with the emac that can be used with ichat? I've seen posts that USB cameras will work with Tiger, but nothing about the physical properties of the camera, meaning, how well does it attach to the emac? Most appear to clip to a flat panel. I'd rather not have to break out duct tape if I didn't have to.
thanks
Steve

Your answer to the Camera question can be found here.
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/ichatusbcam/
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