Check out the Vicon Revue. I’m into Lifelogging for years, I just don’t record continuously yet. Note that I do not own the Vicon Revue but it is the only product I’m aware of that can do the job right now (in terms of size etc.), although without audio/video functionality. I’m simply using a compact camera and my iPhone so far. I even have a stationary camera in my room that takes a photo every minute. Last year I reached over a million files. Right now I got over 2TB worth of personal videos/photos/screenshots/logs etc., not sure how many files there are now though.
I often fantasize that lifelogging might be a cheap alternative to Cryonics, in terms of beta level simulations as described in some of Alastair Reynolds’ novels:
A poor cousin to an alpha-Level simulation, a beta-level is based on modelling the behavioural patterns of the person copied, attempting to predict their reactions to a given stimulus.
If you got my DNA so that you can clone me it might even be possible to imprint memories and behavioural patterns based on the lifelogs. I suppose that even without a DNA sample, given sufficiently powerful AI, such a beta-level simulation might be sufficiently close so that only a powerful posthuman being could notice any difference compared to the original. At least that’s a nice idea :-)
Resurrection without a backup. As with ecosystem reconstruction, such “resurrections” are in fact clever simulations. If the available information is sufficiently detailed, the individual and even close friends and associations are unable to tell the difference. However, transapient informants say that any being of the same toposophic level as the “resurrector” can see marks that the new being is not at all like the old one. “Resurrections” of historical figures, or of persons who lived at the fringes of Terragen civilization and were not well recorded, are of very uneven quality. [Orion’s Arm—Encyclopedia Galactica—Limits of Transapient Power]
A link on the subject (there were others, but they are behind a pay-wall now and I’m too lazy to look for a backup):
My problem is that I regard the Revue (and the photo thingy Gordon Bell uses) as being hilariously awful. It isn’t worth considering for a second. That anyone thinks that they can sell it is symptomatic of how terrible the market for lifelogging devices is.
The Vicon Revue costs 500 pounds, excluding VAT; or >$800.
And that gets you something far more useless than, say, the uCorder I linked which costs an order of magnitude less. Not half as much, or a third as much, but an entire order. For that much, I could just buy 5 or 6 uCorders, or buy 1 and hire a local college student to hook it up to an external battery, and still have a ton of money left over.
Nitpick: I’m not sure if that definition of a beta-level is canonically accurate; all I remember from Revelation Space is that that’s how one specific beta was constructed. Also, there are unspecified technical reasons for believing that betas are nonsentient. I’ve been using the word “reconstruction” myself.
To give an example of how awful the Revue is, it is exceeded on a price/picture ratio by just about anything—dozens of hunting accessories or even a camera for recording your garden.
Not that the garden cam is all that bad; here’s a nifty video/presentation employing it or something similar.
Check out the Vicon Revue. I’m into Lifelogging for years, I just don’t record continuously yet. Note that I do not own the Vicon Revue but it is the only product I’m aware of that can do the job right now (in terms of size etc.), although without audio/video functionality. I’m simply using a compact camera and my iPhone so far. I even have a stationary camera in my room that takes a photo every minute. Last year I reached over a million files. Right now I got over 2TB worth of personal videos/photos/screenshots/logs etc., not sure how many files there are now though.
I often fantasize that lifelogging might be a cheap alternative to Cryonics, in terms of beta level simulations as described in some of Alastair Reynolds’ novels:
If you got my DNA so that you can clone me it might even be possible to imprint memories and behavioural patterns based on the lifelogs. I suppose that even without a DNA sample, given sufficiently powerful AI, such a beta-level simulation might be sufficiently close so that only a powerful posthuman being could notice any difference compared to the original. At least that’s a nice idea :-)
A link on the subject (there were others, but they are behind a pay-wall now and I’m too lazy to look for a backup):
Lifelogging, An Inevitability
My problem is that I regard the Revue (and the photo thingy Gordon Bell uses) as being hilariously awful. It isn’t worth considering for a second. That anyone thinks that they can sell it is symptomatic of how terrible the market for lifelogging devices is.
The Vicon Revue costs 500 pounds, excluding VAT; or >$800.
And that gets you something far more useless than, say, the uCorder I linked which costs an order of magnitude less. Not half as much, or a third as much, but an entire order. For that much, I could just buy 5 or 6 uCorders, or buy 1 and hire a local college student to hook it up to an external battery, and still have a ton of money left over.
Nitpick: I’m not sure if that definition of a beta-level is canonically accurate; all I remember from Revelation Space is that that’s how one specific beta was constructed. Also, there are unspecified technical reasons for believing that betas are nonsentient. I’ve been using the word “reconstruction” myself.
To give an example of how awful the Revue is, it is exceeded on a price/picture ratio by just about anything—dozens of hunting accessories or even a camera for recording your garden.
Not that the garden cam is all that bad; here’s a nifty video/presentation employing it or something similar.
(Links courtesy of foucist.)