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The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:00 am
by GONNAFISTYA
New camera promises to capture your whole life
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's disease, it might one day be used by consumers to create "lifelogs" that archive their entire lives.
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.
The morons who live by Twitter and Facebook's "What are you thinking right now" will have a goddamned field day with this. Like I give a fuck about every moment of some mouth-breather's life. Post their inevitable death from their stupid actions and maybe I'll be interested....at least for a moment's laughter.
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:15 am
by mjrpes
If I saw someone wearing one of those, my first instinct would be to tell them to turn it off, but by then it's already taken a picture, so what's the point?
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:38 am
by MKJ
im pretty sure that violates several privacy laws
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:43 am
by Transient
I'm pretty sure you can take pictures of people in public provided you don't profit from them. (Holy alliteration, Batman!)
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:49 am
by MKJ
you can publish them only it has newsvalue or is incidental (e.g. tourists at a landmark).
its the same reason a storeowner is obligated to let people know they have security cameras
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:09 am
by seremtan
lol, it would have to be the UK
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:22 am
by Transient
So I guess this comes down to an argument of what "news value" is.
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:11 pm
by bitWISE
I hope they build in some kind of wireless so you can hack these people. Fill it up with goatse or something.
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:59 pm
by andyman
as if cameras on the street corners weren't enough, now they are going to make people think they need these cameras..
sigh
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:21 pm
by Unisaw
Gordan Bell and Jim Gemmell, senior developers at Microsoft, are developing
MyLifeBIts e-memory - a digital extension of the brain. Everyone will have a vast digital archive - life logging. They purport that it will "change what it means to be human". I don't get it. I don't get Google Wave either but it's coming next year.
Tom Ashbrook did
an On Point show in September.
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:32 pm
by andyman
If they are going to change what it means to be human, could they first define what it means to be human? Because I thought it meant not being bionic.
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:32 am
by Tsakali
soon, all you'd have to do to search google, would be to simply think of a question, and before you even finish formulating it fully, you'd have your answer. Gives new meaning to "Know it all's"
edit:
k not soon, maybe 20 years?
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:48 am
by Disambiguation
Twitter is a cult that must be stopped.
Re: The "Twitter" problem will now get infinitely worse
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:16 am
by MKJ
Transient wrote:So I guess this comes down to an argument of what "news value" is.
its like obscenity i suppose, we know it when we see it.
if you had one of those cameras, and you decide to go into an adult bookstore, and youbuy some scat, its fine for you to share that with others. it's your right.
however if i was there too its not for you to decide if I want to share that with others.
btw i still have to scat pictars, PM?