the device

As a contained unit, the recording and storage device would function well as a before mentioned tablet pc upgraded with various recognition and recording inputs attached. Its hard drive would serve as the storage medium as it actively perceives relevant video, ambient audio as well as full dialogues throughout the day, and potentially gps routes taken primarily for narration.

Here is a sketch.




Maybe a bluetooth wireless connection could handle calls in a simple GUI. Call waiting and instant messages and automated surveys would come up from time to time with photograph associations.

Its ideal arrangement as an integrated unit would make it more inconspicuous and therefore more socially unnoticeable. This prototype could hopefully be held in one's arm or carry it in a laptop bag [also before mentioned].

Computer scripts would compose a log or screenplay of the day to decipher collected video. As one interacts with the unit it would record video appropriately [or passively]. Dialogues would be dictated in text form as well as retained in audio as interpersonal interactions often create memories.


[example output with italics representing automated input and bold representing user input]

"At ten thirty today I left the house for a meeting. I drove to [x,y].

architect: how are things?
self: fine

I stayed for 18 minutes and then returned home."