The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Camera records your life every 30 seconds
Meet the Memoto: a tiny, wearable camera that takes a picture every 30 seconds.
For the price of $279, plus a monthly photo storing fee, you can have access to a digital image of every moment of your life.
As Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
He couldn’t have, however, imagined anything like this.
“With Memoto, you can effortlessly travel back in time to that moment when you met the love of your life, the day your daughter took her first step, or that night you laughed the night away with friends,” said Martin Kallstrom, chief executive of Memoto.
The device is about 1-inch square and less than half an inch thick.
A smooth plastic case houses a GPS antenna, a rechargeable battery that keeps its charge for up to two days and a camera that takes 5megapixel resolution images. A small LED light lets the wearer know when battery power is winding down.
The photo stream is housed on Memoto’s servers. The camera comes with an app called the Memoto Web Service that lets you access the photos. Users will have to pay a monthly fee. It is not possible to use Memoto without also getting the Memoto Web Service.
The photos are Geo tagged and organized in a timeline that the company said will be easy to search.
The Memoto won’t go into production until February, but the company’s Kickstarter page has shown there is a market for the camera. Memoto quickly sailed past its original fundraising goal of $50,000 and has raised more than $150,000 from more than 800 backers.
But does anyone’s life actually merit being photographed every 30 seconds?
The Memoto team is selling the camera as a way to give everyone a searchable, shareable photographic memory.
But I think there is a certain beauty in the haziness of an imperfect memory. Not to mention a certain narcissistic quality of wanting to record every moment of your life.