casual capture

05/26/2003 01:33:00 PM
As data storage gets cheaper, people are capturing and saving more and more image and video data. A potentially revolutionary technology is currently in the works called 'Casual Capture', in which users wear tiny cameras that are constantly capturing images. When something happens that the user finds important enough to save, he or she can press a button or say a certain word, and images from the last few seconds or minutes are stored. It's sort of like a closed circuit security camera but the images will be of high photographic quality and the pinhead cameras will be mounted in eyeglasses or worn on the head.
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Casual capture technology could impact many fields and industries. Here are a few examples:

Law-enforcement ('Exhibit A - the guy robbing me')
Insurance liability protection (why not mount one on the car hood, why not mount one on every side of the car?)
Education (who needs notes?)
Family photography (parents will be able to compile the 'best of' moments from their real, candid lives with their kids)
Tourism (tourists will no longer be glued to their camera viewfinders.)
Business (be able to refer back to a past meeting or presentation by dragging a mouse on a timeline)
Daily life (where you put your keys)
Journalism (go on location and experience it - sort through the transcripts and images later)
Accountability in general (that's not what happened!?)

The next stages of casual capture (as storage gets easier, smaller and cheaper still) could quite easily integrate the capture of high quality stereo audio and three-dimensional video into a pair of eyeglasses. The data stream could be sent via wireless network to a storage unit resulting in an archive of 'Being John Malkovich-like' recorded experience.
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