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| Written by D. Eric Franks | |||
| Friday, 10 December 2010 16:05 | |||
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This is Your Life
Dec 23 2010 01:01:32 This thread discusses the Content article: This is Your Life
"You need to be fairly egotistical to imagine that your day-to-day life is is more interesting that anyone else's and delusionally egotistically to think that any other poor sap would like to experience your quotidian existence for themselves." Ah, this may have been true 15 years ago, but we are living in the age of Youtube my friend. Every punk from age 7 on up feels the right to not only post videos of themselves singing Mariah Carey (badly) on Youtube, but to Tweet about their latest bout of indigestion or their angsty frustration with their teacher/professor/boss/spouse/favorite blog writer. I by no means think this little device is going to take off. But I think the creators were reading the times correctly. Everyone and their brother and his cousin think their day-to-day life is more interesting than anyone else's. I'm only buying when it starts recording in 3D :-) |
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Re:This is Your Life
Jan 03 2011 20:37:43 Hmmm...
Actually, I can see some applications for the training field. I work at Ford and could use this for some of the in car or underhood stuff I have to shoot (since I find it difficult to hold a camera and make make data connections or turn a wrench at the same time.) I'd have to see how the thing does in low light though. |
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Looxie ("look see," get it?) is a wearable camera that records what you see for five hours at a stretch. The perfection of an idea that has been around in scifi movies and exeperimental media/art in at least a few university projects,
The device certainly has pluses, including making you look notalittlebitlike that administrator guy in the cloud city in the second Star Wars movie and, assuming the technology functions as advertised and the quality is reasonably good, you have to ask yourself: What's it for? I mean, the concept is that this thing can record your life. If you were a BMX racer or a surfer or a skydiver or were doing something interesting like that, then, sure, an always-on POV camera is a pretty cool little gimmick. But if you needed a rugged helmet cam, then, well, you'd buy a rugged helmet cam, wouldn't you? For the rest of us, I just can't see why you'd want to record your life. My days are full and largely satisfying, but I wouldn't want to record them and certainly wouldn't want to watch those boring recordings later. Even on vacation, I can't see the value in recording even an hour at a stretch, not to mention editing and viewing later. You need to be fairly egotistical to imagine that your day-to-day life is more interesting that anyone else's and delusionally egotistically to think that any other poor sap would like to experience your quotidian existence for themselves.