Eyez without a Facebook — live video lifelogging!
June 5, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
This just in from Aussie HIVE45 vidcaster Nathan Waters: “Someone is finally making *normal-looking* tech recording glasses! I have no affiliation with this product, but I would absolutely love if you added it to the news section to encourage more pledges for their Kickstarter funding. Here’s the link: Eyez by ZionEyez HD Video Recording Glasses for Facebook. “The issue so far has been that the tech glasses have been bulky and ugly… so very keen to get ahold of these ones.”
What? I want one — now! Let’s see: 720P HD cam, mic, 8GB flash memory, Bluetooth, mini-USB charging/download port, iPhone/Android app, removable lenses, hands-free video recorded (3 hours) or streamed live via Qik or LiveStream…. Oh, yeah!
Think of the possibilities: live TV/radio reporting (when will some TV network get it?), sousveillance (TSA groper patdown monitoring, anyone?), instant Facebook videos, lifelogging (perhaps into Lifenaut one day?)….
Speaking of, this is a must-see: The Museum of Me — you and your Facebook friends converted into an art museum exhibition: photos, faces flying by, ending in a magnificent 3-D connected graph of your Facebook friends. Slightly creepy, but beautifully done and fascinating….
OK, back to Eyez. This is a Kickstarter project (if enough investors pledge $1 or more, ZionEyez can go ahead with the project). So far, 169 backers have pledged $25,119 toward the $55,000 goal by July 31. It’s being designed by engineers who designed the now-obsolete FLIP video cams. Scheduled for Winter 2011 release.
Hmm… what if a future version could have a built-in display connected to a future iPhone/iPad/Android device — a perfect augmented reality system with live updating from/to the cloud… two-way live Facebook/Twitter/Quora updates and two-way mobile Skype video…. But is this the end of privacy — the transparent society, 1984, Gattaca?
Meanwhile, back in 2011, I just pledged. Goes through your Amazon.com account — instant. Make that 170 backers.
Comments (7)
by petercher
I think the Eyez by ZionEyez is a cool gadget. This is hassle free in capturing videos. I do agree that it is best useful in public areas where many people have the peak potentials in breaking the laws. No one can notice anyway that they are being captured.
by {i}Pan~
I think the best application of these glasses will be catching police breaking the law.
by Amara D. Angelica
Just received (pre-ordering puts you on the list to receive the product earlier).
Project Update #5: WE REACHED OUR GOAL!
Posted by ZionEyez Team
Dear ZionEyez Fans,
Thank you for the massive support of our Eyez™ project!
Because of you, ZionEyez has been able to keep true to its grass roots mentality and grow organically. ZionEyez’s mission is to create the most effortless video recording experience in existence and together we have been able to take a giant leap in accomplishing our mission.
Now that we have reached our threshold amount needed, please spread the word and tell your friends and family to join the movement for every pre-order and/or pledge we receive from now until July 31, 2011 will only improve the quality of our product and the speed in which you can receive them.
Best Regards,
The ZionEyez Team
by stalepie
What Nathan said, I don’t really want more recommendations based on what an algorithm thinks I’ll like. I just haven’t had good experience in that dept., because like with YouTube or Amazon it often just recommends something based on what I was most recently interested in, and weighs it according to how popular the subject already was. For instance, I recently clicked on a couple of Star Wars -related stuff on YouTube and then got a bunch of recommensations for Star Wars stuff even though I wasn’t that interested and am more interested in other stuff…
With trying to record everything that happens, maybe Amir is right in this “episode” of Jake * Amir:
http://www.jakeandamir.com/post/6117930674/the-moment
I do think it it’s nice to see things literally through other people’s eyes — reminds me of the movie “julien donkey-boy” — but I think that mostly what you’ll have is just even more boring collections of useless data and oftentimes the best stuff WAS planned and thought-out, even written on paper. Yes, writing. You know, like screenplays and drafts.
But it would probably help stop child molestion and kidnappings, if people wore glasses like this.
by nathanwaters
Thanks for the mention :)
Yeah lifelogging is really the next evolution of social media. The trend is heading towards recording and sharing most, if not all, of your life. I think in 5 years we’ll look back and think it crazy that we didn’t record our entire lives. It’s just that the lifelogging devices and tech glasses out there today are clunky, and look far too geeky for the mainstream to adopt… heck, most of them include unnecessary crap like headphones! So now the cameras are small enough, storage is large and cheap enough, and upload bandwidth is beginning to rise.
One of our ideas a while back was to have regular-looking sunglasses that just took a photo every X seconds and tweeted it out via your phone. You can then use the phone app to browse through past pictures, and also correlate them with GPS data and your calendar schedule etc. You could sell them like hotcakes to Twitter users. *cough* someone do this! *cough* …we’re actually currently working on a phone app that should make lifelogging far more feasible – you just need to step back to the basics and don’t add all the bells and whistles.
So if these “Eyez” glasses could get more battery life with lower quality video, I’d actually much prefer that.
I think the ultimate end-game with this is, as Amara mentioned, putting a HUD-overlay into the lenses, then also recording brainwave activity and correlating that to the incoming stimuli and outgoing responses… so you could have mind-controlled augmented reality – and that’s while the device is still on the outside of our bodies ;)
But more shorter-term, we can begin to run intelligent algorithms on our recorded lives to search for patterns in the data… eventually we’ll identify our unique human algorithm that defines our operations (if you think of humans as computers). We’ll also define our unique recommendation/interest algorithms such that snippets of people’s recorded lives could be automatically sliced and shared to interested parties around the world in real-time. The idea of consciously and manually sharing information on Facebook will become obsolete.
Could be very useful, could be very dangerous in the wrong hands.
Sorry, long post… I could go on and on, so I’ll stop here :D
Cheers
Nathan
by stalepie
I hate waiting for comments to be approved. I’m not a child and don’t need a moderator.
I think comments should only be on the web momentarily, long enough for whoever else to read them, whoever you wanted …
I mean, in real face-to-face life you don’t expect your words to hang in the air, do you? Forever? Like if you’re talking to someone in the produce isle of a grocery store, and you’re whispering in her ear, you want these words to just hang in the air ? And never be removed?
Sometimes I really regret my comments.
by stalepie
I don’t really have anything to say and anyway I should probably be paid for my comments or emails.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE
I think that’s it’s great if people make new movies or YouTube videos or whatever with these shiny stylish normal-looking glasses that have small cellphone cameras in them.
I don’t think people should spy or be deceptive though, such as filming someone who doesn’t want to be filmed without telling him, if he’s not a criminal and doesn’t deserve to be watched.