Looxcie continuous loop camera in bluetooth headset

Looxcie makes a POV video camera built in to a bluetooth headset.  It continously records video in a loop (up to 10 hours long), and you can press a button to save the past 30 seconds of video. You also use their smartphone or PC apps to select a section of video from the buffer. The continuous loop approach has the advantage that you don't have to predict a special moment is coming and get out the camera in time; instead, you just click the button after the fact. 

This is a lot like the old Deja View - but without the cigarette-pack sized device and the wires. Very cool!!

Here's Gordon wearing the Deja View:

Hat tip to Clive Thompson

Video recording continues to shrink

Video recorders continue to get cheaper and smaller. A popular packaging is to combine a USB memory stick with a tiny camera. For example, the Stunt Cam and the Sinykon 65125. For around $25, you can clip one of these little cameras in your shirt pocket and record away for hours (it sounds like the battery will die after a couple of hours, although the memory of the Stunt Cam can hold 33 hours of video).

Sinykon markets their camera as a "spy pen camera" so I want to make clear that we do NOT advocate spy recording. I'd like to wear a camera like this to capture, say, a walk around Fisherman's wharf in San Francisco. Mike Bukhin has a neat idea for warning people that he is taking pictures (he has his cell phone programmed to regularly snap pictures and upload them to a server). Mike has a pocket sewn into his hoodie with a hole for the camera, but, far from being a surreptitious, he puts a picture of a Camera on it to draw attention to what he is doing.

David Pogue on reQall - check out his video

David Pogue of the New York Times has an interesting blog post about reQall that includes a great video explaining what you get out of it.

I am currently reading Total Recall, by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmel on their ongoing work in the field of life-long “e-Memory”. They mention Evernote and reQall as current, interesting and cloud based e-Memory applications and as a long-time Evernote-user, I simply had to try reQall...

New iPod Nano will record video, voice, and steps

Apple has announced a new tool for Total Recall recording: a version of the iPod Nano with video recording, voice recording, and a pedometer. Now all those kids listening to music will also be able to add to their lifelogs. Of course, many cell phones already record video and voice, and can even log your location with GPS. What's next? Maybe some biometric logging, a la bodybugg?

Video of Nano announcement

iPod Nano features page

Total Recall on Youtube

Devin Henkel and Adam Yencho of Diamond Consulting have created some supurb documentary-style video clips about Total Recall.

There are four clips totalling about a dozen minutes - check them out!