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Want Your Whole Life Recorded Digitally? Now There’s a Camera To Do It!

Posted By John Schinnerer On 19. October 2009 @ 19:54 In Psychology and technology, Memory and recall, Emotion & productivity, Mindfulness, Guide to Self, Dr. John Schinnerer | No Comments

A camera you can wear as a pendant to record every moment of your life will soon be launched by a UK-based firm.

Originally invented to help jog the memories of people with Alzheimer’s disease, it might one day be used by consumers to create “lifelogs” that archive their entire lives.

Worn on a cord around the neck, the camera takes pictures automatically as often as once every 30 seconds. It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer. It can fit 30,000 images onto its 1-gigabyte memory.

The ViconRevue was originally developed as the [1] SenseCam by Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, for researchers studying Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Studies showed that reviewing the events of the day using SenseCam photos could [2] help some people improve long-term recall.

For full article, click [3] here.

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[1] SenseCam: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/sensecam/
[2] help some people improve long-term recall: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18625066.700-wearable-camera-restores-lost
-memories.html
[3] here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17992-new-camera-promises-to-capture-your-
whole-life.html

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