Total Recall! ; No Lying, Boasting or Selective Memory? Don't Let Wretched Technology Ruin Our Lives

Daily MailMay 10, 2004

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HELL. This world is not designed for information technology morons like me. Just as I was beginning to master text messaging on my mobile telephone, a Cambridge-based, Microsoft-employed engineer called Lyndsay Williams has invented Sense-Cam.

This is a very small camera that you can fit to your lapel, disguised as a brooch or a Plymouth Argyle supporter's badge, and obtain 2,000 images of your day's activities, all ready to be downloaded to create a complete personal digital diary.

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Total Recall! ; No Lying, Boasting or Selective Memory? Don't Let Wretched Technology Ruin Our Lives

In short, it claims to give people the power to record their whole lives.

Ms Williams demonstrated her invention to Bill Gates, who was deeply impressed and ordered prototypes to fit on his children.

Gates doesn't get too many things wrong: 'This,' he said, 'will appeal to the growing fashion for people to record every...

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