MyLifeBits. MyLifeBits is a Microsoft Research project.
It was inspired by Vannevar Bush's hypothetical Memex computer system. The project includes full-text search, text and audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The "experimental subject" of the project is computer scientist Gordon Bell, and the project will try to collect a lifetime of storage on and about Bell. Jim Gemmell of Microsoft Research and Roger Lueder were the architects and creators of the system and its software. Research SenseCam. SenseCam is a wearable camera that takes photos automatically.
Originally conceived as a personal ‘Black Box’ accident recorder, it soon became evident that looking through images previously recorded tends to elicit quite vivid remembering of the original event. This exciting effect has formed the basis of a great deal of research around the world using SenseCam and the device is now available to buy as the Vicon Revue. There is lots of information about SenseCam on this website, but highlights include: Check out the special SenseCam theme issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine from March 2013 and the special SenseCam issue of Memory in 2011.
Meet the man who's worn SenseCam every day for the past 5 years SenseCam is available to buy as the Vicon Revue. Microsoft SenseCam. Sensecam as typically worn, in comparison with its predecessor (Wearable Wireless Webcam) and its postdecessor (Memoto) Microsoft's SenseCam is a lifelogging camera with fisheye lens and trigger sensors such as accelerometers, heat sensing and audio, invented by Lyndsay Williams, patent[1] granted in 2009.
Usually worn around the neck, Sensecam is used for the MyLifeBits project, a lifetime storage database. Early developers were James Srinivasan and Trevor Taylor. Earlier work on neckworn sensor cameras with fisheye lenses was done by Steve Mann, and published in 2001.[2][3] Microsoft Sensecam as well as Mann's earlier sensor cameras, and subsequent similar products like Autographer, Glogger and the Memoto, are all examples of Wearable Computing.[4]