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A few iterations on this and it would be excellent for law enforcement. (See "Halting State" for a future Britain in which cops are required to wear them.) It is also one of the easiest protections against police abuse of authority which you can actually sell to good cops.
I suspect the cops will be strongly against it.
A neat device, for which I personally have no use. The idea of wearing it around all the time just in case you happen to see something interesting seems pretty terrible... how often do you see something so interesting that you really want everybody to see it in a grainy 15fps video? Folks who might like it: 1. Model rocket types (or remote-controlled planes, helicopters etc) 2. Perverts
"I wish I had thought to take a picture/video of that event."
"I wish I could remember that person's name that I met last week."
This is another incremental step toward a searchable, verifiable, rewindable stream of your life, and the benefits are enormous. A lot of people I know, including myself, use search all day every day. I probably use Google a hundred times a day or more, for the most trivial questions, or just to see if there's a quick known answer to some problem I'm thinking about. I am really, really looking forward to being able to do something similar with my real life.
I've organized my life around simplicity of schedule, so I think this will be even more useful for people who are constantly on the go and trying to remember what they need to do next and who they're doing it with and for. The stuff that various email apps do now with recognizing appointment language and offering to add things to your calendar, for example, seems a natural for applying to realtime life.
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edit: Hey, what do you know: http://igargoyle.com/
A few iterations on this and it would be excellent for law enforcement. (See "Halting State" for a future Britain in which cops are required to wear them.) It is also one of the easiest protections against police abuse of authority which you can actually sell to good cops.
It would be excellent for law enforcement, provided cops are punished for dead time, and suspects always have access to the records. I suspect the cops will be strongly against it.
The phone software needs to be able to instantly upload the video to a safe location. If someone wants to give you shit, but knows whatever has been recorded is well out of their reach, they may be considerate in their actions. No more police or soldiers confiscating recording equipment and destroying the data.
Luckily, such software exists, so this could be quite a good thing for protest and civil disobedience activities.
Looxcie will be interesting to use at demonstrations or other events where you may want to immediately publish a video after something happens (before eg. that video is taken from you).
" If, for instance, you’re hiking and a bear crosses your trail, you’ve got it on video. " At least when someone finds bear droppings and an ear piece they can put 2 and 2 together. I see it mostly as a way of protecting yourself in court.
The downside is that this limits the privacy and makes people do what they are supposed to do, and not what the actually want to do -- their boss (parents, teacher etc.) will just look up the video and see what one had done at his work (school) time. We also really would not want anyone to browse our life record as they wish. The data will need to be heavily encrypted and protected from unauthorized access.
