Here's a great way to spy on your friends or take secret
snaps of any celebrities you encounter?wear sunglasses with
a built-in camera. Huw Robson of Hewlett Packard says, "It
means you now have a wearable camera which nobody will
notice and can take pictures while being involved in
events."
The camera constantly takes digital pictures of whatever
you're looking at through the glasses. It also has an off
switch, in case you don't want to record every intimate
moment.
Paul Eng writes in abcnews.com that Deja View has invented
Camwear 100, a digital video camera about an inch long that
can be worn in lots of places, such as in a baseball cap. The
camera sends its images to a cell phone-sized device worn on
a person's hip.
"The camera is constantly monitoring what you see," explains
Sid Reich. "When you see something occur that you want to
keep, you hit the 'record' button and the last 30 seconds of
what the camera saw is recorded onto a tiny removable
memory card." The video can then be downloaded into a
computer for editing and playback.
Reich says, "It's become accepted that if you tape something
like a school play or your kid's soccer game, you're going to
tape for two hours. But most things that happen in your life
that are memorable are short events?and often at times
when you least expect it. "You're watching the game just like
you normally would and when the kid makes a great play?a
great catch or a slide into third base and he's safe?you've
got it. You get to live in the moment instead of watching
through a viewfinder of a camcorder."
Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies says, "It has the appeal to
the techies and gadget freaks in all of us. We've all had those
moments or places where we see something and just wish we
had a video camera or a 35-mm camera handy, rather than
fumble around for one."
Both cameras bring up privacy issues. People are already
concerned that cell phone cameras are being used to secretly
watch people in places like public restrooms and locker rooms.
But one of the main problems may be time?tiny cameras add
yet another chore to our daily routine. Robson says, "If you
are capturing your life as you walk around?that means that
you get a lot of images and part of the problem that we are
solving is how do you sort through those images to find the
good images among all the junk." In other words, if we start
photographing our lives, as well as just living them, and then
have to go home and sort out all the images afterwards, how
will we ever find time to live (and take even more pictures)?
It's already hard enough to find time for our kids, and they're
getting
harder to understand every day.
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