Researchers have developed a tiny camera that can be clipped to clothes
or worn on a necklace, and takes a picture every 30 seconds, allowing
users to record their daily lives.
The camera, billed as "the world's
smallest wearable camera" has become the latest technological hit on
Kickstarter, the "crowd funding" website.
As well as a five
megapixel digital camera, the device will feature a GPS chip to keep
track of owners' locations and automatically log and organise pictures
via a specially-created iPhone and Android app, The Telegraph reported.
Memoto claims the battery will last two days.
"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," said the
Swedish start-up behind the project.
Memoto describes the project as "lifelogging" technology and plans to ship its first finished cameras in February next year.
"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," said Memoto.
"The way this works is that the photos are organised into groups of "moments" on a timeline," said Memoto.
"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," Memoto said.
"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 look like in Lapland in June?" Memoto
added.