Record Your Boring Life With This Wearable Camera
Annie explores the pros and cons of Memoto, the world's smallest wearable camera. It snaps a picture every 30 seconds, creating a visual log of your life. The question is, would you really want to? Memoto Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/martinkallstrom/memoto-lifelogging-camera Please Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=thetechfeed Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/1/117570471985996938691/posts Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/techfeedtv?ref=ts&fref=ts Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TECHFEED_News Follow Annie on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/anniegaus And on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/anniegaus
In this recording — 7 extracted moments
Transcript
[00:00:05] Speaker A: As an old Kodak ad once pointed out, life is about precious moments. Well, there's a new camera in the works that wants to make sure you never forget any of them. Really, any of them. This is Memoto, a tiny wearable camera that snaps a picture every 30 seconds, automatically creating a visual log of your life. It also comes with an app that organizes those moments in a searchable format. At just 36 by 36 millimeters, Memoto is billed as the world's smallest, wearable camera, or in other words,
[00:00:30] Speaker A: the world's ugliest necklace. It comes with GPS that adds time and location stamps to your thousands of photos, so you'll always know what you were doing and when. And you'll never forget the endless string of tender, kitten-filled moments that is your daily life. But for most of us who spend most of our time in offices and not in a wooded chateau in Sweden, our memory log will look a little bit more like it does in this prototype, as in mostly shots of your email inbox or whatever Finder folder you happen to have
[00:00:56] Speaker A: open. You know, those precious moments you'll want to tell your grandkids about. To take a sentimental stroll down memory lane, most of us don't need snapshots of every website we look at throughout the day, or the wall of the conference room at work, or on a really exciting day, the toothbrush aisle at Walgreens. All I really need for that is my receipts and my web browser history. Ah, remember that thing about Ryan Gosling on D-Listed? That'll be gold for my memoirs. What I'm trying to say
[00:01:21] Speaker A: is, when you think about it, your life is mostly kind of boring. And besides, even a magical moment doesn't always lend itself to magical photos. Sometimes even the most exciting moments in life seem a little underwhelming when reduced to a photo or video, no matter how many megapixels your camera has. In a promo video, a man on a bicycle contemplates the nature of memory as a narrator inquires what moments in life these folks would want to relive. We sat next to each other and then he leaned over and he kissed
[00:01:46] Speaker A: me. Beautiful. Beautiful, yes, but would that guy still have made out with you if you'd been wearing a camera on your shirt? Unless he was this guy or, say, Kim Kardashian, I would guess no. The project is in Kickstarter mode and is set to begin production in January. What do you guys think? Add your comments below, and while you're there, don't forget to subscribe to the channel. This is Annie Gaus for TechFeed. Oh my God!