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Re:Would You Wear a Camcorder on Your Ear? by hugh3 on Saturday October 02, 2010 @10:28AM (#1750489)
A neat device, for which I personally have no use. The idea of wearing it around all the time just in case you happen to see something interesting seems pretty terrible... how often do you see something so interesting that you really want everybody to see it in a grainy 15fps video?

Folks who might like it:

1. Model rocket types (or remote-controlled planes, helicopters etc)

2. Perverts

Re:Would You Wear a Camcorder on Your Ear? by randallsquared on Saturday October 02, 2010 @11:06AM (#1750569)
3. Anyone who blogs or twitters or talks to anyone about their life, currently

"I wish I had thought to take a picture/video of that event."

"I wish I could remember that person's name that I met last week."

This is another incremental step toward a searchable, verifiable, rewindable stream of your life, and the benefits are enormous. A lot of people I know, including myself, use search all day every day. I probably use Google a hundred times a day or more, for the most trivial questions, or just to see if there's a quick known answer to some problem I'm thinking about. I am really, really looking forward to being able to do something similar with my real life.

I've organized my life around simplicity of schedule, so I think this will be even more useful for people who are constantly on the go and trying to remember what they need to do next and who they're doing it with and for. The stuff that various email apps do now with recognizing appointment language and offering to add things to your calendar, for example, seems a natural for applying to realtime life.

Re:Would You Wear a Camcorder on Your Ear? by smackay on Saturday October 02, 2010 @12:31PM (#1750750)
4. Birders. Being able to positively identify that Acrocephalus warbler, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocephalus, that just disappeared into that bush destined never to return would be a blessing to just about everyone I know. Digital cameras are already fulfilling this role to a certain extent, but being able to record everything just in case you need to go back and double-check would be an enormous benefit.

Having said that, "the one that got away" is a big part of the culture and being able to definitely identify everything (as least much as it is possible with the technology) would probably end up diminishing the experience and generally take the fun out of it.

Re:Would You Wear a Camcorder on Your Ear? by AngryParsley on Saturday October 02, 2010 @02:22PM (#1751011)
I've heard of one lifelogger who has video of the first time he met his wife. He didn't know it would be an important occasion until much later.

I don't understand complaints about resolution/storage/etc. Those will only get better with time. So instead of objecting to the idea itself you're basically saying, "I'm going to start using this 18 months after people who think it's worthwhile now."

Re:Would You Wear a Camcorder on Your Ear? by timthorn on Saturday October 02, 2010 @10:37AM (#1750508)