Monday, December 20, 2010
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Microsoft has been working with a number of clinicians and university researchers over the past five years to learn more about how its SenseCam technology can be used to help those with memory problems. Finally Microsoft showed off a prototype SenseCam, which took a unique approach to photography. Camera’s forward-facing, wide-angle eye lens of the Vicon Revue continually snaps photos and can even keep it capturing life’s little moments every 30 second and stores them on the internal memory.
Revue’s features a temperature sensor or a body temperature, infrared motion detector, multi-axis accelerometer and 3-axis magnetometer (compass).Instead of pulling out your camera to snap a random moment for posterity, the SenseCam is worn hanging from your neck all day. It also has a privacy button that temporarily halts the snapping so that the wearer are not caught on camera in embarrassing situations, like going to the toilet. The battery life runs up to 12 hours of continued use and about two hours in charging.
UK-based Vicon Motion Systems has licensed from Microsoft of its SenseCam technology so that the company can manufacture the device as a useful tool for those suffering from memory disorder conditions like Alzhiemer’s. Through images captured by this technology the patient improved his/her recall problems to piece together life events. And if you think it looks like a fun way to capture your life, the ~$775 (£500) price tag seems to be discouraging people from ordering one for just novelty use.
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