Samsung's "Show Your World" ad campaign in the US also looked to capitalize off of this trend. The campaign encouraged consumers to use their camera-equipped cell phones to record their daily lives and then convert them to movies.
The rapid growth of blogging is also fueling this trend. Specifically mobile blogging, or "moblog", is allowing consumers to use their mobile devices to post pictures or text online. There are several types of moblogs from standard text-based blogs that allow users to post their comments directly from their mobile device; or, for the more visually inclined, blogs like TextAmerica (http://www.textamerica.com) allow users to post, through MMS or Email, the pictures or videos captured from their mobile device.
Online Resources:
http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/LIFE_CACHING.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/articles/mobileblog.mspx
http://www.trendwatching.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblog
http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/index.cgi?moblog&login=user75472
With the growing pervasiveness of digital mobile devices in the marketplace, consumers are collecting, storing and displaying their entire lives for both personal use and global distribution. Trendwatching.com has dubbed this emergent trend as "LifeCaching".
see: (http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/LIFE_CACHING.htm).
From Apple to Nokia to Microsoft, and many more jumping into the arena, there are no shortage of companies that are looking to capitalize off of this phenomenon.
The Sensors and Devices Group at Microsoft at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK is currently working on a project named "SenseCam". According to Microsoft:
"SenseCam is a badge-sized wearable camera that captures up to 2000 VGA images per day into 128Mbyte FLASH memory. In addition, sensor data such as movement, light level and temperature is recorded every second. This is similar to an aircraft Black Box accident recorder but miniaturized for the human body. It could help with memory recall, e.g. where did I leave my spectacles or keys? who did I meet last week? by doing a rewind of the days events. If a person has an accident, the events and images leading up to this will be recorded, and these could be useful to medical staff. It could also be used for automatic diary generation.
Sensors trigger a new recording. For example, each time the person walks into a new room, this light change transition is detected and the room image is captured with an ultra wide angle or fish-eye lens. Other triggers include, time, sudden movement, or a person nearby. A hand gesture can also manually capture an image. An accelerometer is used for image stabilization to reduce blurred images caused by camera motion. This is an essential feature of any truly wearable camera.
The sensor data (motion, light, temperature, and near infrared images) is recorded for later correlation with other user data, for example in the MyLifeBits system. MyLifeBits will allow the large number of images generated daily to be easily searched and accessed. Future SenseCams will also capture audio and possibly heart rate or other physiological data."
(Source: http://research.microsoft.com/sendev/project_sensecam.aspx)
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