Microsoft Targets People Who Have Too Much Free Time

[Kent Pribbernow]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&e=1&u=/ap/20040304/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_visual_diary' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&e=1&u=/ap/20040304/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_visual_diary</a><br /><br /></div>Have you ever wanted to own a device which can be worn around the neck, automatically snaps over 2,000 images, and creates a digital diary of your daily life? Neither have I, but apparently the good folks at Microsoft believe this is something I can't live without. The device, called SenseCam, is essentially a small digicam that responds to changes in the users environment, such as sudden change in ambient lighting, increase in temperature, heart rate, sounds, body oder (Ok, I made that last one up. :wink: ), and records the information in an archive. Granted, there <i>may</i> be a practical use for this in the security field, but for the average end user this looks about as practical as a dead rat on a stick.<br /><br />Your thoughts?

[Jason Dunn]

Heh. Mine would be:

1,997 photos of my computer monitors
3 pictures of the toilet when I actually get up

:lol:

What would everyone elses' breakdown be?

[coffeeFreak]

Heh. Mine would be:

1,997 photos of my computer monitors
3 pictures of the toilet when I actually get up

:lol:

What would everyone elses' breakdown be?

Mine would be very similar, except I' d have slightly fewer photos of monitor, and probably about extra 50 of my professors lecturing/seminar or meeting since I'm in grad school. :)

Over all it seems like a cool idea though. I'm wondering if there's a feature that allow it to take a picture at an interval (e.g. 1 picture every 5 minutes) in addition to sensing environment. That might actually be of some use! Personally I forget what I did and where I was occasionally at the end of the day, and this might help me trace where I lost my eraser!

[Kent Pribbernow]

Hah. Good point. Mine would be more like images of me crawling out of bed early in the morning, staggering to the kitchen to put on a pot of coffee, falling into the shower, slipping and falling on the floor once again as I exit the shower, flipping some guy the bird for cutting me off in traffic on my way to work, sitting at my desk staring at an LCD, working in Dreamweaver/Fireworks/Photoshop all day, frantically racing to Subway to grab lunch and beat the clock, praying for death, finish my day, race home grab a bite to eat, meat with friends, browse the web or play a PC game, watch a little bit of the History Channel, pray for death, hop in the shower (slipping and falling), go to bed.

Rinse and repeat. :lol:

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

as practical as a dead rat on a stick.


Make that a rotten, stinking, dead rat on a stick.

[bdegroodt]

Hmmm...I like rats, so this would be fitting for me, as I think the idea is a fun one. It reminds me of the photo shoot pt (http://www.bookofseg.com/option3/) did of himself, every 30 minutes, over a few days. It's kind of a cool idea. I'd think for something like a vacation, where you don't want or can't hold a camera constantly. Personally, I'd have liked to have had something like this for the marathon I did last weekend. It would have been cool to capture much more than my friends and family did from the road.

[Jason Dunn]

It reminds me of the photo shoot pt (http://www.bookofseg.com/option3/) did of himself, every 30 minutes, over a few days. It's kind of a cool idea.

That photo shoot is simply mind-boggling. 8O

[klinux]

body oder?