- Memoto Camera Logs Your Life
A clip-on camera that snaps a picture every 30 seconds.
- Logging Life with a Lapel Camera
A startup believes people will want a photographic record of their lives, taken at 30-second intervals.
“We want to provide people with a perfect photographic memory,” says Martin Källström, CEO of Memoto. His startup is creating a tiny clip-on camera that takes a picture every 30 seconds, capturing whatever you are looking at, and then applies algorithms to the resulting mountain of images to find the most interesting ones.
- Facebook Reacts to Criticisms of “Home” App; Promises Upgrades
A month after the release of Home, Facebook is working to answer criticisms with improvements.
Facebook Home—an app for Android smartphones that provides users with a constant stream of images, messages, and updates from friends on the social network—launched with fanfare a month ago along with the promise that additional features would be added shortly (see “The Facebook Phone Is Finally Here, but Who Wants It?”). Now, as some users level poor reviews at the app, the team behind it is focused on making those upgrades happen—and fast.
- Glimpses of a World Revealed by Cell-Phone Data
An examination of simple cell-phone records reveals maps of poverty levels, ethnic divides, and the movements of sports fans.
Around the world, some mobile carriers have been releasing anonymized records of cell-phone data to researchers.
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