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Life bits captured by camera
Three years ago, in Bit Literacy, I predicted that we would soon see a future of life bits - when our lives were documented all the time by camera. Now, from the Revue camera site:
Revue takes photos unobtrusively when triggered by the internal sensors within the camera and can also be set up to work on a timer, taking photos every 30 seconds.
That's a start. Within a few more years we should see wearable videocameras storing the past 36 hours of video - available for search, tagging, face recognition, and archiving.
Isn't this the same concept as sites like justin.tv, which have existed for a couple years now?
I've been reading Total Recall which is does a great job at highlighting current tech trends quickly coming together: GPS & Video enabled smart phones tied directly to cloud storage services which, given reasonable organizational schema, allow all of us to capture the audio or video of every meeting, event, interaction, phone call, email, text msg, power point, etc. to a central place.
They spend less time on the likelihood of this happening and more time on the what happens to this "life stream" of data afterward.
A great read!
-pjc
This'll be very interesting when combined with stuff like Google Goggles and Yahoo's geotagging technology:
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/02/yahoo-patent-geotagging-social-augmented-reality.html