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I have been thinking lately about the inevitability of life recording. As the number of cameras around us multiplies, it seems unavoidable that recording one’s life for convenience will become commonplace.

The concept is simple, strap a video camera to your head and record everything you see and hear. Transfer the data to storage and process the sound and graphics with voice and text recognition to facilitate full text search of things you hear and see. Add face recognition and you can search for conversations based on who you were talking with. Add a GPS chip and you can search based on location. This is Google for your life. Perfect recall.

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I am fascinated with wearable cameras and the concept of continuously recording audio and video of your life. In the past few years a handful of products have emerged in this space, but the equipment still seems a little too expensive and not quite small/fast enough. The system that seems most appealing is one that continuously records audio and video but only stores the preceding five minutes or so. Then if you see or hear anything of interest, you can hit the record button and permanently store the last five minutes plus whatever happens next. Like Tivo’s instant replay, but for your life.

Today Slashdot posted article today about some researchers in Toyko that have designed a set of Cyber-Goggles that go beyond recording your day, but also work to recognize and assign names to the things you see. Read on for more details:

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