iLife

i am sort of obsessed about the phenomenon of a Mac-induced iLife (though not always, there's probably something with Google there too)--which i take to basically mean that so many of us tied to our macs or iPods, iTunes, blogs, etc. that it has become an integral part of identifying ourselves to others and ourselves. but i just found out about lifeloggers. and it blew my mind. it is both horrifying and intriguing on many levels:

Lifeloggers (also known as lifebloggers or lifegloggers) typically wear computers in order to capture their entire lives, or large portions of their lives. In this context, the first person to do lifelogging, i.e., to capture continuous physiological data together with live first-person video from a wearable camera, was Steve Mann whose experiments with wearable computing and streaming video in the early 1980s led to Wearable Wireless Webcam. Starting in 1994, Mann continuously transmitted his everyday life 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and his site grew in popularity to become Cool Site of the Day in 2005[1]. Using a wearable camera and wearable display, he invited others to both see what he was looking at, over the Web, as well as send him live feeds or messages in real time[2]. In 1998 Mann started a community of lifeloggers which has grown to more than 20,000 members.

here is steve mann's wearable computer:


and then--oh. em. gee.--Sousveillance, as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity,[1] typically by way of small portable or wearable recording devices that often stream continuous live video to the Internet.

check this out, wearable wireless webcam:

what in the world is going on!?