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A Kickstarter project is angling for funds to create a new life-blogging tool, in the form of a wearable camera that’ll take a snap of your life every 30 seconds and upload it to a server. Image the pressure that’d create to live an exciting and varied existence.
The idea comes via the Memoto Lifelogging Camera, which would combine a tiny, wearable camera with a smartphone app and an awful lot of server space, to create a “searchable and shareable photographic memory” that automatically uploads and sorts all your images into one, enormous timeline.
The makers already have a working prototype assembled, which combines GPS data with its 5-Megapixel images, with the end result being a tiny little thing that lasts for two days on a single charge. The team is currently ahead of its Kickstarter funding target, so ought to actually make it into some form of production.
Sounds clever, but the provided example image above, of a man being on his computer, makes it appear a bit less compelling. I don’t really need 50,000 images of me being on my computer sitting on some cloud server somewhere. [Kickstarter via TUAW]
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2880 images a day. Doesn’t sound very scalable ..or even useful.
Call me crazy, but I would probably turn this off while I was asleep. So, assuming we all get a solid 8 hours, it would only take 1920 a day.
Much more useful.
Let’s also assume that I’m in work for 10 hrs a day, where I’m not allowed to take any pictures without reams of paperwork for every picture, so it’s down to 720 pics…
If we take out time for taking a long shit, having dinner alone, taking a leisure bath, working out for long and couple of other personal activities.. Say 6hours for all this, we’re left with 500ish pics
If we’re excluding the 6 hours you’ve just described, I’m down to no pics…
So there we have it folks.. The revolutionary new Memoto Lifelogging camera. I bet you feel well pleased for funding it.
Saying that, if it came with a motion sensor which meant that it was only active when the wearer had been moving within the last 5 mins or so, I’d put it on the dog.
with the exception of a St.Bernard.
Then it would need to be waterproof as well.
“Can You Do Something Interesting Every 30 Seconds?” – Does “comment on Gizmodo” count?
I’d make it a challenge to ensure every image snapped in a day would all be of gizmodo.
This could make my trips to the toilet more interesting, I’d have to remember to glance away every 30 seconds.
Also, it could make things difficult during those 3 hour porn and wanking marathons that the types of people who put on a wearable camera are likely to have.
Someone’s been watching too much Charlie Brooker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#3._.22The_Entire_History_of_You.22
The narcissism is strong in this one.
Who on earth would want to look through these photos? with long picture loading times from the cloud, it’d take frikkin ages to get anywhere