Memoto has become a huge hit on the crowd funding site KickStarter. The startup is asking users for help raising $50,000 for the opportunity to wear a camera that will take images every thirty seconds. “The world’s smallest wearable camera” will allow users to document their entire lives through images. So far the company has managed to corral 250 people that have helped the company raise $44,000.
Memoto is a small device and can be attached to user’s clothes or worn on a necklace. The five megapixel camera in the device will take pictures automatically and will also record geo-location thanks to an inbedded GPS chip. With the company claiming the battery will last two full days, the whole package seems fairly hassle free. Memoto will also log all of a user’s action and then organize it in using an iPhone or Android application.
The Swedish makers of the device claim that, “Many fantastic and special moments become blurred together after a while and it feels like life just rushes by, too fast for us to grasp. We at Memoto wanted to find a way to relive more of our lives in the future – and enjoy the present as it happens.”
Memoto is part of the Quantified Self Movement trend sweeping the world and calls its project a “lifelogging” technology. With users looking to store data about different aspects of their lives using tracking devices, Memoto seems to be a much bigger step towards a completely digitized life.
Memoto is expected to start sending out its first devices in February and states that, “The camera and the app work together to give you pictures of every single moment of your life, complete with information on when you took it and where you were. This means that you can revisit any moment of your past.”
The start up also explains how users will be able to sort through all the boring moments to get to the good stuff by stating that, “The way this works is that the photos are organized into groups of “moments” on a timeline. On the timeline, you’re presented with keyframes (about 30 per day) each representing one moment. You can tap a moment to relive it in a stop-motion like video of all the pictures in that moment. This enables you to not only browse your life the way you remember it, but to search for specific events of your life: who was it that you met at that party or what did the sunset looked like in Lapland in June?”
Some critics have brought up privacy issues but the makers of the device say that they have built in controls that will keep users safe. They also ask that people who use the device to use restraint as it is a technology that calls for deep integration into users’ lives.
Source: Business Insider
Photo: Memoto
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