Are you willing to be a walking human recorder? If you are, then there’s a device that’s coming up for you. Life recorders are in the offing. There’s at least one start-up that has been fine tuning such a device for more than a year now. The fulfillment of your ambition to record your history in real time may come sooner than you expect because the product may go to market in 2010.
Before you bask in the thought of what the life recorder can offer, read up on a brief description of what it will actually do. The small device may be worn as a necklace or a wrist watch, so it can very well be a fashion accessory if you wish. It shall ‘take photos every few seconds of whatever is around you and record sound all day long. It has GPS and the ability to wirelessly upload the data to the cloud, where everything is date/time and geo stamped and the sound files are automatically transcribed and indexed. Photos of people, of course, would be automatically identified and tagged as well.’
Now, do you really want to have anything to do with all that audiovisual material? What’s more, would you really want others to search and access every bit of your personal life? That’s tons of personal documentation.
But don’t be squeamish, now. You’ve already been sharing so much of yourself on Facebook and Twitter, more than you can comfortably deal with later. The only difference is that this life recorder may be just a little more up close and personal – and much, much more comprehensive than you could ever imagine.
So, if you’re still up to it, just worry about the fashion get-up that you wish to match it with. Let Microsoft, Google, and Amazon worry about the storage of your massive volumes of data – and I mean, massive.
Via TechCrunch
