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New camera promises to capture your whole life

18 points by araneae 17y ago

khafra 17y ago
I like sousveillance and exocortex enhancement in general; and the attempt at capturing intelligently in specific. But this seems a little underambitious for the price--just 1GB of memory? No automatic, regular backups by wifi or EDGE?
- stcredzero 17y ago
  Wireless would be a great addition. Just automatic WiFi detection and upload/deletion would make using it seamless for most people. Disable the audio, if there is any, and I'd just wear it all the time. I would love something like that. I'm tired of people doing shitty things to me and ones I love, then getting away with it with barefaced lies. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. My girlfriend was just rear-ended by another driver. She even got their license plate, but the police decided it wasn't worth following up, possibly because she was confused by the make of the car. She just doesn't understand that stuff. I've been physically threatened, had local bureaucrats fictionalize tests, been in accidents where the other driver was doing some preposterous passing on the right-side by speeding over parking spaces, had police who kept interrupting me before I could finish sentences but then claimed I was being rude -- all these are situation where people just lie after the fact and get away with stuff. I'm the one who tells the truth, and yet I am the one that gets shafted. I am tired of that!
th0ma5 17y ago
Whole life? If I had one it would involve quite a lot of things that this camera wouldn't capture.
TrevorJ 17y ago
I've wanted something like this for a while, but with audio as well. Thing thing I've come to realize is that it must be an integrated system that is automatically indexed and searchable, tagged by date, time, location as well as having speech recognition and face detection in order to be truly as useful as it should be. I think the ideal device would also have a 'bookmark' button that indexes sections you want to be able to find later on - very handy for remembering names, faces, etc. I also think there should be a 30 second rolling frame buffer so that you can hit 'record' and capture five minutes of full-motion video starting 30 second earlier so that you can fully capture important conversations and the like. All of the tech exists, it's just not been integrated in an intelligent way as of yet which is a real shame.
- dstorrs 17y ago
  Good news! For several years now, Gordon Bell at Microsoft has been working on exactly what you describe. AFAIK, it isn't available publicly yet, but there are articles on it. Google for "Gordon Bell" and "lifelogging."
  - borism 17y ago
    Who was the guy at MIT who had camera, wearable computer, projection glasses etc. with him at all times? I've read long time ago (more than few years) via Slashdot about how he got in trouble with security often, but I can't remember who it was. Anyway, if you read the article it is the same tech licensed from MSFT.
    - TrevorJ 17y ago
      Kevin Warwick? http://www.kevinwarwick.com/ http://www.kevinwarwick.com/
    - dstorrs 17y ago
      Steve Mann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://wearcam.org http://wearcam.org Interesting factoid: he was the one who invented the word "sousveillance".
      - borism 17y ago
        That's more like it. Thanks!
- alain94040 17y ago
  We all just know that this will be technically feasible in our lifetime. The challenges, as you pointed out: if it's not searchable, then we'd have to spend a second life browsing through our first. Then there are some privacy issues, which will probably be ignored in practice, if past history is any guide. But it has some very interesting consequences on human interaction.
thorsview 17y ago
"Final Cut" with Robin Williams depicts a future where all life moments are recorded.
chaostheory 17y ago
I guess Big Bro is coming soon as electronic jewelry
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18 points by araneae 17y ago

I like sousveillance and exocortex enhancement in general; and the attempt at capturing intelligently in specific. But this seems a little underambitious for the price--just 1GB of memory? No automatic, regular backups by wifi or EDGE?

stcredzero 17y ago
Wireless would be a great addition. Just automatic WiFi detection and upload/deletion would make using it seamless for most people. Disable the audio, if there is any, and I'd just wear it all the time. I would love something like that. I'm tired of people doing shitty things to me and ones I love, then getting away with it with barefaced lies. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. My girlfriend was just rear-ended by another driver. She even got their license plate, but the police decided it wasn't worth following up, possibly because she was confused by the make of the car. She just doesn't understand that stuff. I've been physically threatened, had local bureaucrats fictionalize tests, been in accidents where the other driver was doing some preposterous passing on the right-side by speeding over parking spaces, had police who kept interrupting me before I could finish sentences but then claimed I was being rude -- all these are situation where people just lie after the fact and get away with stuff. I'm the one who tells the truth, and yet I am the one that gets shafted. I am tired of that!

th0ma5 17y ago

Whole life? If I had one it would involve quite a lot of things that this camera wouldn't capture.

TrevorJ 17y ago

I've wanted something like this for a while, but with audio as well. Thing thing I've come to realize is that it must be an integrated system that is automatically indexed and searchable, tagged by date, time, location as well as having speech recognition and face detection in order to be truly as useful as it should be. I think the ideal device would also have a 'bookmark' button that indexes sections you want to be able to find later on - very handy for remembering names, faces, etc. I also think there should be a 30 second rolling frame buffer so that you can hit 'record' and capture five minutes of full-motion video starting 30 second earlier so that you can fully capture important conversations and the like. All of the tech exists, it's just not been integrated in an intelligent way as of yet which is a real shame.

dstorrs 17y ago
Good news! For several years now, Gordon Bell at Microsoft has been working on exactly what you describe. AFAIK, it isn't available publicly yet, but there are articles on it. Google for "Gordon Bell" and "lifelogging."
- borism 17y ago
  Who was the guy at MIT who had camera, wearable computer, projection glasses etc. with him at all times? I've read long time ago (more than few years) via Slashdot about how he got in trouble with security often, but I can't remember who it was. Anyway, if you read the article it is the same tech licensed from MSFT.
  - TrevorJ 17y ago
    Kevin Warwick? http://www.kevinwarwick.com/ http://www.kevinwarwick.com/
  - dstorrs 17y ago
    Steve Mann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://wearcam.org http://wearcam.org Interesting factoid: he was the one who invented the word "sousveillance".
    - borism 17y ago
      That's more like it. Thanks!
alain94040 17y ago
We all just know that this will be technically feasible in our lifetime. The challenges, as you pointed out: if it's not searchable, then we'd have to spend a second life browsing through our first. Then there are some privacy issues, which will probably be ignored in practice, if past history is any guide. But it has some very interesting consequences on human interaction.

thorsview 17y ago

"Final Cut" with Robin Williams depicts a future where all life moments are recorded.

chaostheory 17y ago

I guess Big Bro is coming soon as electronic jewelry

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