This is a cool mod, but if he had just sat and thought it out before throwing it together in order to be the "first one" to do it, he would have realized that mounting the iPad2 onto a frame that swivels would have solved the issue he had with having to do the "gangster lean" for FaceTime.
True but, if he would have just mounted with the camera closer to the driver the problem probably would've been solved. Your idea sounds better though!!!
The thing is that if you put it on a swivel mount then anyone in the car could use FaceTime not just the person who is sitting closest to the camera. Seems like a pretty basic thing that they should have included.