New Camera ViconRevue Promises To Catch Your Whole Life On Camera

New Scientist:

Lifelog: New Camera ViconRevue Promises To Catch Your Whole Life On Camera

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[lastpost]

Do they supply a bracket, to fix it on top of the checkout till? To record and identify anyone who used a phoney credit card in the past week?

[humbop]

How absurd. When would you watch the video of your life? After it was over? How much of your video would be dedicated to watching the video?

[mark999]

Yeah, it sounds dumb, for many of the reasons already posted. But twitter was initially dismissed too. You never really know with this new-fangled technology.

[Jtt]

Twitter is still dumb though.

[Rayme]

I thought that Big Brother Government was already doing this.

[rigveda]

Unless you have some sort of memory disorder (like the guy in Memento)..­..F**k That Big Brother BS!

[ywcachieve]

Oh, he// no! Not my life. No way!

[klbrz]

So do you have to offer disclaimers every time you order coffee or otherwise engage in life - or have folks sign waivers? And do you get one for your infant (though they couldn't go around the neck, maybe the diaper pin or plastic pants). And if the kid didn't want it, could (s)he sue you later on?

[temenos]

Moderator, GROW UP!

[UchuKaizoku]

Just when you realize that most of the videos on youtube are r.etarded, get ready for the most boring footage ever. 99% of people's lives are simply uninteresting.

[moonflowerjewelry]

...how about just paying attention to your life as it is happening?

[nexxtep54]

I'm too sexy for my life... too sexy for your life ...too sexy

[Jake the Snake]

It's a cool camera. I like it. How much?

[Sing Out and Slap Iron]

Hey Jake? Exert some energy and check out the story. It tells the price right there in the article.

[Jake the Snake]

Thanks slapper. So how much is it?

[mcarlsonus]

Reminds me of that Robin Williams film, "The Final Cut." But, the storage capacity here works out to less than two hours! Pursuant: TRY to limit the number and duration of your, "Maslowian Experiences," people!!!

[SolarPowerGuy]

Scooped! I was going to mention "Final Cut."

I'm not sure where you get the "less than two hours" figure. The article suggests that the one-gigabyte camera would store 30,000 images, and it would take one image every 30 seconds. That's NOT a lifetime of images, clearly. But it is 10.4 days' worth of images, IF the camera were running 24/7.

Unless you are an Alzheimer's patient (one group the article suggests would benefit from a camera like this one), you'll probably remember to take it off when you sleep. That should increase your recording time by about a third.

Even if you do sleep with it on -- the article further suggests that the camera includes software to help it decide when images were "boring," and could be thrown away. Perhaps you can quarduple your imaging time this way?

I can see a "highlight reel" of about eight weeks of your life being stored in one gigabyte.

Finally, 16 gigabytes of flash memory is not all that uncommon for cameras these days. Extrapolating from my math, that works out to just over two years. Don't forget to change the batteries.

[loki]

Ive often thought of something similar to this, but with a much higher frame rate for cars. It would be a godsend for anyone who gets a ticket or especially in an accident. Just a recorder and 2 to 4 small wide angle lenses placed on the car that recorded everything. It could prompt the driver to save or delete the stored images every time you turned the off, or even all it to keep running for a period of time determined by the driver. that would be for when your parked somewhere and would catch anyone who damaged or tampered with the car. If they could make something like that for around 150 bucks, I know Id be signing up for it. I think they can too. Just a black and white decent picture would work fine. I doubt you would need sound either, but it might be nice.

[SolarPowerGuy]

If I had your high frame-rate video recorder on the dashboard of my car, I could be sending highlight reels to the police every day. Cars that cut into my lane without signaling, cars that run red lights, cars that suddenly decide that they're turning right from the left-turn lane, etc.

Selfish drivers are a scourge of the earth.

[Hank007]

You could spend your first 50 years filming, the next 50 trying to post it online.

[UchuKaizoku]

If you thought youtube was boring now, prepare for the onslaught of John and Jane 24/7. I think I'll sh00t myself.