Spare $775? Microsoft’s SenseCam Lifecaster is accessible Now, as the Vicon Revue [Microsoft]

Earlier this year, I wore this pack-of-cards shaped box around my neck for two days , recording everything in front of me in VGA photo-format. Microsoft licensed the tech to Vicon it slow back, who’s now selling it as the Revue.

I must provide you with a warning, though-this thing is just too expensive for what it’s. Selling for £500 inside the UK (that’s around $775), the lifecaster takes a few 640 x 480 resolution photos a minute with its wide-angled lens, storing them on the inner 1GB memory (enough room for 30,000 photos, or around 100 hours of lifecasting).

Changes to temperature and lightweight control the photo-taking-it could possibly snap as many as eight photos a minute. Actually, there’s some brilliant tech in there-a temperature sensor, infrared motion detector, multi-axis accelerometer and compass, but considering smartphones contain most of those components nowadays, the value just isn’t justified.

You’d must be pretty fascinated about recording every minute of your life, when you are considering shelling out that much dosh for a Revue. It’d be way more useful buying the Looxcie video camera instead, once you must fill social-networking sites with glimpses of your banal life. [ Vicon via PopSci via GizMag ]

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