{"id":1990,"date":"2009-10-17T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T02:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T05:49:24","slug":"new-camera-to-auto-document-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/new-camera-to-auto-document-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camera to Auto-document Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17992-new-camera-promises-to-capture-your-whole-life.html\">this story<\/a> about the next evolution of the <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/cambridge\/projects\/sensecam\/\">SenseCam<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/2009\/08\/total-recall-your-e-memory\/\">I wrote about<\/a> a few months ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992 alignnone\" title=\"vicon\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/vicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A camera you can wear as a pendant to record every moment of your life will soon be launched by a UK-based firm.<\/p>\n<p>Originally invented to help jog the memories of people with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, it might one day be used by consumers to create &#8220;lifelogs&#8221; that archive their entire lives.<\/p>\n<p>Worn on a cord around the neck, the camera takes pictures automatically as often as once every 30 seconds. It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer. It can fit 30,000 images onto its 1-gigabyte memory.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicon.com\/\" target=\"ns\">Vicon<\/a>, based in Oxford, UK, which specialises in motion-capture technology for the movie industry, has licensed the technology for the camera from Microsoft and intends to put it into large-scale production.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to see this story about the next evolution of the SenseCam, which I wrote about a few months ago. A camera you can wear as a pendant to record every moment of your life will soon be launched by a UK-based firm. Originally invented to help jog the memories of people with Alzheimer&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[35,347,544,3,543],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-blogging","tag-camera","tag-lifelogging","tag-photography","tag-sensecam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}