USA Today ran an article on MRAM (magentic ram) and its impact PLRs - personal life recorders.
"Don Norman speculated about a
Personal Life Recorder (PLR) type of device back in his 1992 book
"Turn Signals Are The Facial Expression of Automobiles". He theorized
that these PLR's would start out as a device given to young children,
called the "Teddy".
The "Teddy" would be given to us as children and record all of our
personal life moments, and as we mature, the data could be transferred
to new devices that matched out maturity level." [via Smart Mobs]
The holy grail of devices = Storage Capacity + Battery Life + Device Speed / Responsiveness + Physical Size.
How do you feel about having your life recorded? I'm ready.
Marc Canter has some related ideas that tie into his themes of Digital Lifestyle Aggregation. I really think that Personal Lifestyle Recorders will require Digital Lifestyle Aggregators to sift through all of the data to find the interesting bits.
"What’s a Digital Lifestyle Aggregator?
Imagine a next generation MyYahoo
service – which enabled end-users to keep track of their personal (and
their families) music, photo, video and file collections and provided
them with ‘home publishing’ capabilities to create, store and
distribute their own content. Imagine a social
networking environment which matched and found like-minded people and
enabled them to participate in activities together (both on-line and in
‘real space’.)...
...Now
imagine all of these capabilities and features in one integrated
environment – focused in on a particular constituency, content brand or
set of activities. That’s what we call a digital lifestyle aggregator (DLA.)"
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