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+-   MyLifeBits to store every moment of your life-> on Tuesday April 08 2008, @10:49PM Dixie_dean

Submitted by Dixie_dean on Tuesday April 08 2008, @10:49PM
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Dixie_dean writes "Microsoft researchers are developing a way to enable you to capture every moment of your life and store it on your computer. The principal researcher with Microsoft's research arm, Gordon Bell, is developing a way for everyone to remember those special moments. The nine-year project, called MyLifeBits, has Bell supplementing his own memory by collecting as much information as he can about his life. He's trying to store a lifetime on his laptop. He's gone on to collect images of every Web page he's ever visited, television shows he's watched, recorded phone conversations, and images and audio from conference sessions, along with his e-mail and instant messages. In 2003, Bell even began wearing a SenseCam, a wearable digital camera designed to automatically take pictures without any user interaction. So far, Bell has stored about 160 megabytes of information about his life, including 100,000 photos. Calculating that he saves about a gigabyte of information every month, he noted that he tries to only save photos of a megabyte or less. Bell figures one could store everything about his life, from start to finish, using a terabyte of storage."
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