Hovercams were flying robotic cameras used in 2015 to hover to locations of news stories and report on them in live time. The hovercams were capable of generating a story in a short period of time via the use of Compu-Fax. Even though we were not able to see it, Emmett Brown hacked into a hovercam to talk to the Time travel volunteers at the Institute of Future Technology. (Back to the Future: The Ride) In the early 1990s, Doc had a similar camera in which he recorded his video encyclopedia.