> This is something I've been thinking about for many years.
> 
> Tonight I gave it greater thought on the way home, and even 
> figured out ways to overcome some amount of the "big brother" 
>
> ...
> 
> So I'm going to have to go off, check up on some patents, get 
> some quotes for the building blocks of the system, and make a 
> business plan.  Then laugh, put it all out online, and let 
> someone else make money while I sit and smolder about my lack 
> if initiative...
> 
> ... 
>
> -Adam


Too late.  Beaten by Gorden "VAX" Bell at Microsoft, no less!

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov05/2153

http://research.microsoft.com/barc/mediapresence/MyLifeBits.aspx

{ed: See also: http://www.activatedesign.co.nz/MyLifeBits }

Another Microsoftie doing a trial:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/11/ms_sensecam_aids_memory_loss/

I find having a digital camera handy is, well, handy.  Now when I pull
things apart I take a series of photos, here are the screws before I took
them out, now I have 5 screws in my hand, now a shot of the carpet where I
dropped them... etc.

Tony

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