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Gaze Detector Lets You Hear With Your Eyes
tinkertim writes "Engadget is reporting that Manabe Hiroyuki has developed a personal 'being' assistant, the wearable headphone gaze detector. The device apparently takes notice of what you look at (and hear) and makes note of the more important events in your life that it records. From the article '[the device] is slightly less elegant than the traditional neural implant, with this system you could not only record the goings on of your days and "bookmark" important events, but also train the cameras to feed you information about your surroundings based on QR codes or possibly eventually object recognition; think of it as augmented aural reality triggered by giving a passing glance.'"
If this were a lot smaller it might be a useful aid, particularly for those with memory problems. But we use something similar for web page design, where it's very useful indeed. By monitoring where the eyes move you can get a very good read on how people use a site and design accordingly.
I know I save all my e-mail, and often refer back to it, especially in my business life, as I have a horrible memory, and may tasks to track. However, I know many business people that prefer to talk rather than write, so it would be really useful for me to record what they tell me.
Like advertisers don't already know where you're looking. That's why they have girls with ample cleavage holding their product.
Part of the fun of life is developing your own ability to distill the experiences of life into perceptions and integrating them into your own mind and later being able to adapt to future experiences by drawing upon your stored knowledge and being able to behave at least somewhat optimally.
People have being doing this with varying degrees of success for tens of thousands of years.
Now I have google desktop search installed on my laptop, and it has indexed my life. Everything I've ever seen on this machine for the past year, it remembers and knows about and can search for within seconds (CTRL-CTRL anyone?). Gigabytes of history. Every single web page I've ever visited (except those which I've deliberately excluded by using a virtual machine, torpark, etc). It knows more than I've learned (at least with respect to indexable keywords and strings) in the past year.
It's kind of scary sometimes. There are some things you would want to forget. But it's so darn handy.
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God - I definitly would not want my Fiancee to be able to see what/who I was staring at all day.
:)
These files better be secure
More appropriate movie reference, "The Final Cut", a movie where someone takes your entire life which is recorded on some implant and splices a montage of events at your funeral.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.