“ Glancephones” were created at the firm’s research labs in Cambridge, UK, by Richard Harper and Stuart Taylor. Your life at a glanceĬellphones log our lives already, and the recent Microsoft research shows how with a little modification they can become true lifelogging devices. But even without dedicated equipment, most of us already have the tools to log our lives: we carry computers with inbuilt sensors in our pockets. The upcoming ViconRevue pendant camera looks like it will offer an easier way to do much the same thing. Meanwhile Canadian film-maker Rob Spence is attempting to fit a wireless video camera into his prosthetic eye. The founder of broadcast his whole life for a while using a baseball-cap camera. By the mid 1990s he was broadcasting his every move and vital signs online. Steve Mann, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Toronto in Canada, started capturing video using a helmet camera in the 1970s. Like so many other things, lifelogging has been pioneered by people who take it to the extreme.

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