The PORTA2030 from 2006 is a mobile data sensing storage transmission unit that consists of a wireless hard drive (the WL-HDD2.5), a 1 GB flashcard and an open source backend. The device functions as a portable data sensing storage transmission system that can stream images to function as a simple communications device. Interesting design but we wonder how different it is from what a typical cell phone can do these days.
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
May 9, 2008 05:00 AM
Wearables, Wireless |
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Maybe they're shooting for "life camera" or life recording functionality.
By the way, your TypeKey signin functionality is busted. Trying to sign in reports that the site is incorrectly configured. :(
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Yeah, a "life camera" was the first thing I thought of when I saw that. Another interesting thing would be to constantly recording video, but saving only the last X minutes (say, 5-15 minutes). Then when something interesting has just happened, you hit a button and it stops erasing the video. You might catch a lot of interesting news stories that way.
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