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With kids, I have often wished to be able to capture a short moment, after it occurred. I hate having my phone out and recording my 2 year old daughter, because
by oflannabhra 9y ago
With kids, I have often wished to be able to capture a short moment, after it occurred. I hate having my phone out and recording my 2 year old daughter, because it changes her behavior (and I think trains her to be a bit narcissistic).
I'd gladly pay more than $150 for that ability, but I just don't think Spectacles are it.
Someone, sometime, will crack that nut, though, and I'll gladly throw them my money. Google seems to be trying to do it with Clips [0].
[0] - https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17055618/google-clips-smart-camera-review https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17055618/google-clips-sma...
- tjwds 9y agoHave you checked out Google Clips? I've heard good things about it, though I haven't tried it out myself: https://store.google.com/us/product/google_clips?hl=en-US https://store.google.com/us/product/google_clips?hl=en-US
- oflannabhra 9y agoYeah, most reviews I’ve seen are underwhelming, including the one I linked.
- blhack 9y agoWhat the hell is that clip of the guy slapping the ball out of the kid's hands all about?!
- throwbacktictac 9y agoIf I had to guess I'd say, young dad plays with toddler while mom watches.
- ggg9990 9y agoI’ve already cracked this with Nest cameras around our house. When something cute happens I tell my Google Home to take a note with the time so I can go take a clip later. Very poor showing from Google that this isn’t already integrated — would love to say “Hey google save a clip of the last 3 minutes from the bedroom camera”
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- oflannabhra 9y agoThe needed feature for me is POV. Eye contact, etc, are a big part of memories. I know there is probably a dystopian future that could come from such a product, but, well, my daughter will only be 2 once.
- ggg9990 9y agoTry it. Mounted at floor level the Nest footage does a pretty good job of capturing the moment.
- prdonahue 9y agoIf you haven't seen this episode of Black Mirror yet, highly encourage you do: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/.
- jkestner 9y agoYou kids ever hear of Strange Days? Loved that movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/
- tlrobinson 9y agoI can’t say I love the idea of turning my home into a surveillance state.
- Kiro 9y agoThen don't. No-one is forcing you to install Nest.
- ggg9990 9y agoI didn't either, but I didn't have a better plan at the time and I didn't want to lose the moments. I'm working on a non-cloud replacement with Raspberry Pis, where all of them are continuously recording and saving to local storage. That's the easy part, haven't figured out clip extraction and when I do I'll replace the Nests.
- untog 9y agoA friend brought Snapchat Spectacles (V1) for the exact purpose, and said it was fantastic (the one issue being the light when recording - distracts baby! - that it sounds like V2 solves). The main issue he had, though, was that Spectacles forces you to use Snapchat. And grandma and grandpa aren't about to install Snapchat just for this. They need to make it much easier to export directly from the glasses to the camera roll, but Snapchat has no vested interest in doing that. So I hope to see a different company come along with a similar project one day.
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- SubuSS 9y agoI just checked and the export to camera roll option is still there. Did you try that to share with grandma/pa?
- untog 8y agoYes but the circular videos get all messed up.
- acct1771 9y agoCool, we lose privacy light because baby gets distracted by it and dad doesn't own tape?!
- IncRnd 9y agoI think it's already been done for years, just not by one of the big websites. You can search on Amazon in Electronics : Security & Surveillance for spy glasses to see a listing that may be what you want.
- tabeth 9y agoI'm curious -- why do you want to record the moment?
- donttrack 9y agoMaybe he is too busy with work related thinking to enjoy the actual moment and want to save it, so it can be enjoyed properly at a later time.
- nhangen 9y agoThat's a ridiculous question. $10k says you don't have kids. I have 3. 15, 14, and 7. I'd give anything to have more of their precious moments saved so that I could reminisce and stroll through those periods once more.
- tabeth 9y agoWhy does it matter if I have kids or not? Everyone has friends and family. The question remains.
- nhangen 9y agoFriends and family is 100x different. It’s impossible to explain unless you are a parent.
- true_religion 9y agoCould you not give it a try? Others often try to understand the experience of others. It is the basis of empathy.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoWhen a man and a woman love each other very much, they exchange legally binding jewelry and then rub their bodies together until a baby comes out. Gay folks can do it too but the process is more complex.
- genieyclo 9y agoKino from Stargate?
- baby 9y agoWhy are spectacles not it?
- oflannabhra 9y ago1) I'd prefer if I could capture a window that includes the previous x seconds, plus what follows. Live Photos on iOS do a great job of this. Spectacles begin recording immediately from button press. 2) I'd like to directly access the captured moments from my camera roll. I don't use SnapChat. 3) I'd like a more innocuous design than Spectacles. I don't mind a "recording indicator", but the style doesn't really fit a 30 year old dad. I realize I am not a fit for Spectacles target market. However, I think the market for what I want is a) quite large, b) much more willing to spend.
- dingaling 9y agoWell they are tinted 'sunglasses' so not really suitable for wearing constantly indoors. So they need to be near to hand to put-on, at which point a phone is probably just as near .
- gondo 9y agothis might be of interest to you https://benjaminbutton.co/en/ https://benjaminbutton.co/en/
- richsinn 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You Just sayin... :)
- 013a 9y agoInterestingly, I think Microsoft has a solution in this category... on the Xbox. "Xbox Record That" goes back in time and records the last 30 seconds of gameplay. This is how Google Clips should have worked. You can't trust AI algorithms to know exactly when something should be recorded. But, if they're constantly recording and throwing away video, then imagine yelling "Ok Google, record that" to your Google Home, it could instruct all the Clips you have in your house to save the last 2 minutes, then give you an interface to select and edit the videos you want. How Google didn't think of this integration is beyond me. Sometimes they live twenty years in the future. Sometimes they miss things that are so blatantly obvious that Microsoft has a solution already. But I also question the motive. This idea that we need to record everything for the future is very recent, definitely motivated by human psychology to collect things and escape the clutches of time. We've lived for thousands of years without it. Why do we need it now? Nostalgia? We already know that Facebook and Insta are bad for your brain by showing you the "surface perfect" lives that all your friends seem to live. What, then, is the psychological impact of living in the "beautiful past" instead of the moment. You're trading time and money today to collect these. When we recall memories, especially positive ones, our brains add imperceptible flair to them, helping us cherish them even more. This is lost when we take and watch videos of everything, recording the absolute truth of moments in our past. We post them to Facebook. We embarrass our children later in life with them. Its... weird.
- spdionis 9y agoAs a twitch user that sounds so obvious to me.
- chrischen 9y agoNvidia offers this, but both Xbox and Nvidia's feature only apply to gameplay footage on your computer.
- raihansaputra 9y agoMinor correction: not just gameplay on computer, you can continuously record your desktop too (for whatever reason)
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- csomar 9y agoI don't like the design of spectacles. Also, you can't get the videos of your daughter unless you push them to Snapchat (in case you didn't read the TC article) A reasonably designed, classy glass with the camera not too obvious will do it for me. Will pay $300-400. Already paying that for simple designer glasses.
- spyder 9y agoReminds me of this TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word "MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." "