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    Recording an entire life

    I want to start a project on which I will undertake the task of recording the rest of my life on video footage. We now have the technology to do such a thing and I want to take advantage of the opportunity.

    I need a portable camera that is small enough not to catch the attention of others. I know such a thing existed, but I've yet to find a seller. I'm not concerned with quality of video, I just want video. I also need a way of saving the data temperately before transferring it over to a hard drive (perhaps a SD card?). It also needs to be able to hold half a day's worth of video. The way I figure it, its 400mb for an hour of DVD video, so this shouldn't be too bad. I'm not too concerned with sound either.

    Thanks for your help

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    Re: Recording an entire life

    Quote Originally Posted by thelastalive
    I want to start a project on which I will undertake the task of recording the rest of my life on video footage. We now have the technology to do such a thing and I want to take advantage of the opportunity.

    I need a portable camera that is small enough not to catch the attention of others. I know such a thing existed, but I've yet to find a seller. I'm not concerned with quality of video, I just want video. I also need a way of saving the data temperately before transferring it over to a hard drive (perhaps a SD card?). It also needs to be able to hold half a day's worth of video. The way I figure it, its 400mb for an hour of DVD video, so this shouldn't be too bad. I'm not too concerned with sound either.

    Thanks for your help
    Gordon Bell at Microsoft (MyLifeBits) has been doing this (and much more) for over three years. He wears a SenseCam camera that records his entire life. It gets stored on terabyte disk drives. Of course, he has the full funding of Microsoft Research. For you to do the same thing would involve very deep pockets.

    Check out the article in the March 2007 issue of Scientific American for details.
    “Men never do evil so cheerfully and completely as when they do so from religious conviction.” — Blaise Pascal

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    Re: Recording an entire life

    This is funny, it`s like you just asked for the remote that switched everything on in the world including the sun and runs on 2 AA batteries

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    Re: Recording an entire life

    Well it depends what you want to record.
    If it's a true point-of-view then you have a problem finding something really unobtrusive.
    Unless you can camouflage it in your clothing ... but then it's not really pov as it's not filming where you are looking.

    There are lots of small cameras...
    http://www.spycatcheronline.co.uk/ch...era-p-622.html
    http://www.elmo.co.jp/suv-cam/en/index.html
    http://www.microspy.com/acatalog/Bod....html#aButton1
    http://www.spygadgets.com/undercover...es-camera.html

    Seems that undercover investigation supply shops can sell all you need - at a price !
    PAul

    Scroll down to the Sports Forum and post your sports pictures !

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