Recording an entire life

[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

[mwfanelli2]

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.

[Kajuah]

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

[SmartWombat]

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 !