gwern comments on Lifelogging: the recording device - Less Wrong

11 Post author: gwern 15 October 2010 01:04AM

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Comment author: gwern 15 October 2010 04:17:59PM *  2 points [-]

My problem is that I regard the Revue (and the photo thingy Gordon Bell uses) as being hilariously awful. It isn't worth considering for a second. That anyone thinks that they can sell it is symptomatic of how terrible the market for lifelogging devices is.

The Vicon Revue costs 500 pounds, excluding VAT; or >$800.

And that gets you something far more useless than, say, the uCorder I linked which costs an order of magnitude less. Not half as much, or a third as much, but an entire order. For that much, I could just buy 5 or 6 uCorders, or buy 1 and hire a local college student to hook it up to an external battery, and still have a ton of money left over.