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A camera to capture every moment of your life

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Imagine having a slideshow that captures your entire life. A UK-based firm has developed a camera that hangs around the neck and automatically snaps a photo as often as every 30 seconds and can hold 30,000 images in its memory. The ViconRevue camera was originally developed to help jog the memories of Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, but will be put into large-scale production for retail sale.

Maybe not the most stylish fashion accessory, but probably a lot more useful than that flashy pendant necklace.

Read more about the camera’s potential in “lifelogging” and memory recollection.

By Annie Colbert.

 Annie Colbert

Comments (14)

Oct 19, 2009
Alan L. Johnson said...
Ah... Haven't we all longed for the days of being able to recount the past in detail? This looks a little rustic, but is on the right track...
Oct 19, 2009
moldor said...
Needs two additions to be truly useful. Voice recording, either continuous or when you hit a button. Manual photo - hit a button to take a photo and start voice recording at ANY time.

Given a decent amount of memory, say enough for 24 hours recording, I could find many MANY uses for this...:-)

Oct 19, 2009
Annie Colbert said...
Imagine how excited our grandkids will be to watch every mundane detail of our lives. Home videos taken to a whole new level. :)
Oct 19, 2009
Kevin Myers said...
Next up, a video camera that are contacts! Not sure my comment is that far off, my hope is that we can cure Alzheimer's long before the "video contacts" are available!
Oct 19, 2009
Kevin Myers said...
Next up, a video camera that are contacts! Not sure my comment is that far off, my hope is that we can cure Alzheimer's long before the "video contacts" are available!
Oct 20, 2009
Rich Magahiz said...
It's a miniature wireless surveillance camera. You could put one in the fridge to see whether the light goes out. Or parents could hide one at home while they go away for a weekend to check on whether their teens were throwing an unauthorized house party.
Oct 20, 2009
Syler_mi4 said...
10 days woooot!!!
Oct 20, 2009
photographworks said...
It's about ten days worth of shots. Needs more memory. A whole lifetime would need about 3 terabytes. Run back at 30 frames per second it would run for about a month. Or to put it another way - if you live for 80 years, that's 4,000 weeks, and it's already Tuesday of this one.
Oct 20, 2009
LucasCaCo said...
Não entendi muito bem ''[ Y didnt undestand very well ''[
Oct 20, 2009
sbunting108 said...
It looks good video would have been better though!
Oct 20, 2009
Shannon said...
Creepy.
Oct 20, 2009
2face said...
They have one of these cameras for dogs, LOL!
Oct 20, 2009
Rich Magahiz said...
Wait a minute, how are you getting ten days? Thirty seconds is the fastest it takes pictures, so I assume you can slow it way down if you want to. But if you set it to snap only a picture once every hour I would hesitate to call it "a camera to capture every moment of your life." Good enough as a fridge cam though.
Oct 20, 2009
Christie Ison said...
Sign me up for the audio/video version that the guy in the article uses...I would win a lot of "conversations" with my husband if I had proof of what I said the first time. LOL

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