With Memoto, Affordable Passive Lifelogging Has Arrived
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I don't think you have anything to lose by being upfront with your audience - they'd probably appreciate it.
I'd be more interested in a device that buffers the last hour, and lets me store it if something important - accident, surprise party, any random, cool thing - happens. I don't need 50 billion gigs of pictures of my desk, but there are definitely times when I wish I could travel back 20 minutes and remember to take a picture.
A similar line of though went into design of the camera itself. We made sure through user testing that most people recognizes it as being a camera, and not as something else. But also that it is subtle enough to not be distracting. It was a fine balance to find between the two, but with the current design most people find it appealing.
"Is there an on/off button? No. The camera will turn itself off when it is laid flat or put in a dark place, such as a pocket. Otherwise, it will be on."
http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/2008/10/15/bill-clinton-hu...
In conclusion, photograph all of the things and worry about analyzing it later.
Maybe an hour is too short, but I'd definitely want things I hadn't explicitly saved to 'decay' in some way; either a rolling window, or deleting one in n frames based on some measure of interestingness - where n is a function of time. It's not just a matter of hiding the old ones, I think it would be vital to know that deleted images were really gone - to give some urgency to actually looking at them, and to reduce potential time wastage looking at thousands of unique - interesting to a machine - but unmemorable photos.
With more and more lifelogging devices coming, I hope someone will make a device similar in size to the Memoto that I can wear on my collar which blurs out my face when I'm being lifelogged by someone else.
Taking photos in a public bathroom (such as in an airport or restaurant) is illegal. Make sure you don't forget you are wearing the device as you wander around.
Photos on private property can be restricted by the property owner (shopping malls, casinos, private residences, etc.). If you do not comply, you can be kicked out and possibly charged with trespassing, and could even be injuncted or sued for damages in a civil court.
Note that video surveillance in private or semi-public places may get you in trouble with the law too. Presumably this is one reason why this device does not have a microphone--laws regarding un-consented audio capture (wiretapping) are even more severe in many states and countries.
And I hope that refer.ly gets popular, if only to reduce the level of refer.ly traction-whoring-growth-hacking here on HN.
I'm very excited for mine. I don't anticipate wearing it everywhere, but for vacations it will be fantastic.
Apparently you don't know what I'm thinking. I was thinking that a whole host of minor crimes like reaching 35 in a 30 zone or downloading copyrighted files can suddenly be data mined. Or computer passwords. Or pin numbers off a cash point, or confidential documents like passports, or credit card numbers ...
Hopefully that conflict makes them make "software in the middle" to allow you to edit before upload.
My contact picture (Android/Google) of my wife (with her consent, of course) reminds me daily that breastfeeding changes women.. No nudity, btw.
But picking up here, would a picture of my wife breastfeeding cross the border of 'casual nudity'? That would seriously confuse me. It seems that this device is supposed to keep memories for you. That situation is certainly very well worth keeping for me/us, ignoring the required nudity to prevent your offspring from starving..
I guess I cannot understand limits based on nudity alone, since a good deal of nice pictures I have/want to keep show a lot of skin, both mine or my wife's (again, no need for anything fancy. Naked son on naked wife is certainly a normal picture to keep and remember). I certainly agree that I wouldn't post the majority to Facebook, of course. Bit if this product is supposed to replace other ways to keep your special moments with you, I see no way to exclude all nude content.
The fact the device goes straight to their servers means those pictures are out of my strict control (I don't even take pictures of those things and keep pictures IN my control). So while it's not the same as publishing to facebook, if they are ever hacked, we'll, that's a total loss of control of a serious aspect of my families financial life.
Morality clauses in company rulebooks alone can make nude pictures = fired. Even if they didn't they could be humiliating to have co workers/ex associates pass them around, or new employers finding them before a job search occurs.
> Will it be possible to use the camera without ever uploading any photos to Memotos cloud storage?
> Yes. You can use the camera with local storage only if you want. You will however not be able to use the data from the GPS and you will have to manage and organize all the photos yourself. The data from the GPS is not converted into a useful position in latitude and longitude until it has been processed in our cloud service.
By offloading that computation to the cloud, it suffices to get a 200 ms snapshot of GPS radio data. It means we can have a duty cycle of about 500 ms instead of 30s or more, which is how the camera can have such an extended battery life.
Why can't owners get access to the same 200 ms snapshot of data though? To post-process that in similar ways (even if it needs reinventing the wheel if you decide to consider that a closed part of your business) later?
No data would be 'lost' and you'd be about hardware and convenience (backups, automatic tagging, whatever) instead of removing a core feature of a 'memento' device for users that want to run that thing standalone/offline.
Impossible? Will never happen? Maybe?
The poeple in this subthread seem to be interested in your product, as far as idea and hardware are concerned. Now to please the crowd that still cringes whenever someone mentions the 'cloud' you'd need to offer a way to opt out of your online services, without losing too much functionality or even data.
What is the point of any privacy argument here? If I buy that thing from you, it seems (your words) that I can access my images locally, without using the online service. How is 'can I access the data you use to compute the GPS position' any different, privacy wise? We're talking about a device that I would potentially carry around my neck after all.
We are receiving a constant stream of feature requests supporting different use cases. At the moment we focus on functionality that supports as many use cases as possible. To provide the same functionality with local storage would mean to duplicate everything we have developed into standalone software, and then support that forever.
Regarding the privacy aspect, if we allow third party apps to integrate to our API, we can allow the user to retain control over what those apps have access to. But if we would chose to make a development effort to allow locally stored data to be used as an integration point for third party apps, we can no longer provide that level of control. An app that turns out to be malicious can't be disabled across the entire user base, because it's probably installed as an executable on local computers.
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1726...
That doesn't sound right. Clearly, the GPS data must include latitude and longitude data. I wonder if they're doing some sort of encryption of the data, or if it's just an encoding issue or something.
EDIT: just read the answer after submitting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5010057. That's a neat approach! Sounds like it'd be straightforward to do the same thing that their cloud service does in a non-cloud process.
It wouldn't take pictures like the Memoto but rather keep track of the places I've been (restaurants, museums, bars, cities) and the stuff I've read, listened to, or watched. I love lists, just plain lists. I already manage lists of books, articles, albums, tracks and films, but I use a Google Document for that and it something is hard to remember everything.
I don't know how such a device would work but I think there'd be a market for that.