A WEARABLE camera that automatically snaps thousands of photos of the people you meet, the places you go, the things you do and even the food you eat is proving to be a powerful aid for people with impaired memory.
Called SenseCam, the gadget was developed by Lyndsay Williams at Microsoft Research Cambridge in the UK. It is part of the company’s “life-logging” programme, which comes up with technologies for recording and storing details of a person’s daily life (New Scientist, 4 October 2003, p 28).
Worn like a necklace, the prototype camera is the size of a deck…
