Boys love their toys and I am no exception. These sound too cool. Sunglasses that record everything they see.
Researchers at one of HP's labs in England have come up with a prototype of a pair of sunglasses with an embedded digital camera built-into them. The glasses dump all the thousands of digital images it captures to a PC or handheld at the end of the day, and fortunately there's some special software available which can filter the pictures and pick out the good ones or the ones that are most likely to be of some importance:To tackle image overload, the HP system captures information about images, called metadata, too. This extra data keeps track of how and where a picture was taken and can spot if a subject was walking or turning. The system also inspects images to see if people are smiling or looking directly at the camera lens. "That sort of information can help us with the image processing," said Mr Robson, "to look at pictures... [Gizmodo]
Next, we'll need to add an on-lens display for the person wearing the glasses, then write some software to recognize people and places from our database (in our cellphone, maybe?) and remind us of their names, etc. We can have a voice recorder built in so that we can record new acquaintances saying their name at a party/bar/office function, then when we dump, filter, and sort the info at the end of the day, we can enter the person's name into the database for future reference.
[Listening to: I Might Be Wrong - Radiohead - Amnesiac (04:54)]