The lifelogging envisaged by Google, Sony, and many others seemed to be a short-lived trend, killed by concerns over privacy and over-sharing. Google returned to the lifelogging well in 2017 with the Clips wearable camera, which aimed to bypass the privacy problems that plagued Google Glass by only capturing short GIF-style clips, not recording audio, and not uploading anything to the internet automatically.Īlmost none of these products and services survive today. Then there were dozens of dedicated lifelogging cameras, from the Narrative Clip to the Memoto, and apps galore including Path, Journey, and Foursquare. When it was announced in 2014, Sony also showed off a tiny wearable camera concept product called the Xperia Eye to go along with the Core. Using your phone’s camera to take a photo, these two events were collated inside Sony’s Lifelog app, where you could add your own notes. A central control module fitted inside a wristband and worked as a simple fitness tracker, but it also had a button you pressed to “bookmark” key events during your day. Sony’s Core was a little different, but the idea was the same. We all know what happened to Google Glass. You could feasibly catalog everything that happened in your daily life, and have it available on your own dedicated online diary immediately. It was designed to be worn all the time and had a camera that could take stills and video, which it then uploaded directly to Google Now (remember that?) for all to see, and you to remember. Google Glass is perhaps the quintessential life-logging product. Google Glass isn’t dead, says Eric Schmidt, it’s just getting started The Pixel 3a’s disappearance is a reminder Google just isn’t that into hardware
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