SenseCam licensed by OMG, as the Vicon Revue

The Vicon arm of Oxford Metrics Group has signed a license to use SenseCam

OMG plc, Oxford Metrics Group (LSE: OMG), (“OMG” or “the Group”) the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries announced today that it has signed an intellectual property (“IP”) license agreement with Microsoft Corp.

The agreement will allow the Group’s Vicon arm, which develops motion capture products for the life science, engineering and entertainment industries, to manufacture and sell devices incorporating Microsoft’s SenseCam technology worldwide.

They plan to sell it as the Vicon Revue

Total Recall review in Canadian Business includes poll result

Canadian Business reviewed Total Recall, and report on an interesting poll:

Life logging won’t be for everyone. Of the nearly 5,000 people who responded to a poll on TechCrunch, a leading tech industry blog, 51% said they wouldn’t wear a life recorder. But almost as many said they would. Those who do will find themselves at the forefront of a whole new way of living — and it’s one that will never be forgotten.

Send someone an email... in 100 years

Someone asked me recently if I would want to share all the details of my life with family members. "Only posthumously," I answered. My e-memories are for me alone, as least long as I live.

Now, in an email twist on this posthumous impulse, MailFreezr.com offers to store your email and deliver it to a designated recipient after a given number of years - up to 100. I wonder how many confessions will be in that server?

Preserving your bits for 100 years

The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) has a 100 Year Archive Task Force, working to "define best practices and storage standards for long-term digital information retention."

They predict a coming archive crisis at the corporate level, with format problems (what we call "Dear Appy") and also the need to migrate physical storage. They have some suggestions for solving the crisis.

It is great to see serious effort being applied to this important issue. Hopefully, the work done for corporations will trickle down to benefit the individual who wants to retain their life bits.

What would you save if your house was on fire?

(CNN) -- From baby deliveries to unexpected deaths, Mike Bowes, a 911 dispatcher from Quincy, Massachusetts, has handled a wide range of emergency calls.

But Monday night, the 44-year-old received an unexpected call from his neighbor: His own house was on fire.

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In another coincidence, one of the first firefighters to arrive on scene was Mike Bowes' cousin, Tom Bowes.

Tom Bowes, a firefighter for the past eight years, scrambled into the house to salvage old albums with wedding and baby photos amid the flames.

But everything else -- the clothes, electronics and furniture -- were destroyed.

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Those of us without firefighter cousins need e-memories, with off-site backups.