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, text 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.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Check out this video of Dean Kamen’s design for a Luke Skywalker inspired prosthetic arm. Kamen, known for inventing the Segway, is an amazing designer and has a history of creating innovative medical devices. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Scientists at Texas Instruments have created a neckband called the Audeo that can interpret nerve signals to general voiceless speech. The New Scientist has posted a full article about it and posted a video demonstration on YouTube (embedded below).
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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 [...]
Friday, April 11, 2008
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