A while back , Microsoft research developed a television camera that hang around your neck to snag shots through your spirit call theSensecam . Now a company namedViconhas licence the technology to release a life - lumber television camera .
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-sensecam-8685
The Vicon camera , priced at about $ 820 when it arrives on the research market this twelvemonth , uses accelerometer , light detector and hotness detection ( tracking someone walking up to you ) to mechanically snag potentially important shots as frequently as ever 30 secondment of your life .
However , the disabling defect is that this system has but one measly gigabyte of storage . One ! Sure , 30,000 photos sounds like a lot , but that ’s only a log of 10 - sidereal day - Charles Frederick Worth of photos taken every 30 second .
A consumer translation is expected out next year , and hopefully Vicon will admit that storage is cheap and offer 32GB — or nearly enough for an entire class of photos — by then . [ NewScientist ]
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