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

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.

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

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.

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.