Liveblogging Life with the Wearable Vicon Revue Camera
From: Popular Science - 08/2010 - page 17
By: Corinne Iozzio

A wearable camera that captures every moment

Put the Vicon Revue around your neck, and you’ll never have to remember
anything again. It sees what you do and automatically records it all. A
wide-angle fisheye lens gives the camera a 120-degree view—the lion’s share
of your field of vision. Its image processor takes shutter cues from five
onboard sensors: light detector, thermometer, compass, accelerometer and
infrared. When any (or several) of the sensors registers a change, the camera
instantly kicks into rapid-fire mode, grabbing one frame per second until
conditions settle. As you walk into a restaurant, for instance, the Revue
responds to the dimmer light and air conditioning. (At rest, it takes one
picture every 30 seconds.) It comes with computer software that can create a
low-res, YouTube-ready video flipbook of your day from start to finish. 

While the Revue makes it easy to share your every move, it has more-practical
applications, too. Researchers have used the system, based on a Microsoft
Research project, as a recall aid for people with Alzheimer’s or memory loss.
Future versions could add more consumer-focused features such as face
detection and GPS for geotagging.  

Read the article at:
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-07/live-blogging-life-wearable-vicon-revue-camera

Links:
Vicon Revue
http://www.viconrevue.com/home.html

Testing the Goods: Vicon Revue, a Wearable Lifeblogging Camera
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-07/testing-goods-vicon-revue

Vicon Revue camera automatically takes pictures of user’s day: A photographic twitter
http://technabob.com/blog/2009/10/17/vicon-revue-camera-automatically-takes-pictures-of-users-day-a-photographic-twitter/