We’re happy to announce that our CEO, Martin Källström, will be a speaker at Le Web London! He joins a great lineup of speakers including: Etsy CEO, Chad Dickerson, Yelp Co-founder and CEO, Jeremy Stoppelman and Airbnb Co-founder, Joe Gebbia. This year’s Le Web focus is on The Sharing Economy; a movement that “represents a major economic, social and cultural shift and is redefining the ways goods and services are exchanged, valued and created.” Martin will be doing the first ever public demonstration the Memoto Lifelogging Camera and App!

Learn more about Le Web and The Sharing Economy below:

Launch: Silicon Valley

Follow the Le Web conference with blogger Neville Hobson

Memoto at Launch: Silicon Valley (June 4th)

We will also be in California this June to pitch at Launch: Silicon Valley. Launch has been helping launch startups for the past eight years by providing a platform for connecting startups to funding sources, customers and partnerships. You’ll find co-founder and CMO, Oskar Kalmaru, in San Francisco June 4th through 6th, after that you can catch him in LA until the 7th. Learn more about this fantastic event below.

Source: Pop Chart Lab

Camera’s of the future could give the user the ability to see around corners.

Find out more in Ramesh Raskar’s TEDTalk: Imaging at a trillion frames per second

Location:
Stockholm, Sweden

Twitter handle:
@Ingeltun

What do you do at Memoto?
Ecommerce Manager

What’s one thing we should know about you?
I co-founded CupcakeSTHLM in 2010, sweden´s first cupcake bakery.

What book have you recently finished, or are currently reading?
Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Favorite non-work-related website:
Thefancy.com

What did you want to be as a child?
I wanted to be a soccer professional and a pilot. I always liked the idea of being able to fly when/wherever you want.

Best advice you have ever received:
Move fast and break things.

Favorite Quote:
“Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” -George Burns

Moment you would like to relive:
A vacation a few years ago in Italy, Cinque Terre (it means five lands). Such lovely people, wine and the simplest, but oh so fresh and amazing food.

This week, in an exciting line-up at Google I/O 2013, we see many Google developers flocking to San Francisco for an inspirational time of creating life-improving technologies amongst other like-minded people. While many have gathered around Google’s table, anticipating what this tech giant is about to release, here’s an article that speaks about Google Glass being only the beginning of what greater things is to come in the wearable tech industry. We at Memoto, are of course very excited to be a part of this great expection!

Read more: Wearable Computing – What We’ve Got and What We Need and This Is The Future Of Wearable Technology

How memory works

Get up close and personal with Brenda Milner, highly respected for her innovative research within the field of memory and many others, creating breakthroughs and opening new possibilities for the treatment of brain cancer, dementia and epilepsy. Milner, through interacting with her patient, HM, established that people have multiple memory systems, each governing a different activity. This means that photographic memory, although compartmentalized within a specific area of the brain, could potentially trigger other parts of the brain to recall a specific moment of one’s life even when devoid of other trigger points such as audio, smell or touch. We sure hope that the Memoto Lifelogging Camera could help stimulate this area of the brain to bring back beautiful memories!

Watch video here: Inside the Psychologist’s Studio with Brenda Milner

Melon – Measure your focus

Kickstarter projects excite us a whole lot at Memoto (it’s no wonder why)! Especially so when it comes to things that we strongly believe in as well – lifelogging, the quantified self and wearable tech. Here’s introducing to you a new Kickstarter project – Melon. With a lightweight headband and an accompanying mobile app, Melon aims to help you make sense of how well you focus by translating brainwave data into visually appealing information that you can see on the mobile app, allowing you to improve your behavior from there. Already exceeding its Kickstarter goal of $100,000 in just 4 days, we’re eagerly awaiting what comes next from the team at Melon.

Read more: Kickstarter – Melon: A headband and mobile app to measure your focus

Heapsylon makes sensor-rich fabric

You might ask what is so unusual in the picture above, except that someone is wearing an electronic anklet to measure what seems to be their pulse rate? And if you did ask that question, then the founders of Heapsylon are going to be jumping for joy in these little sensor-rich socks that they have developed. Bound together by a common belief that the garment should be the computer, three former Microsoft employees left their jobs to create a fabric packed with sensors. Although this new technology is only currently found in socks, we don’t negate the possibility of having tablets built into our apparel, do we?

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As a nice starting point, Niclas had the opportunity to present Memoto in an interview with Dutch tech website Fast Moving Targets, which you can view here:

It’s always a treat to engage with the QS community. We got a really good response to our product when talking to attendees and early Kickstarter backers. We were also able to see a lot of new wearable technology, tracking everything from sleep, dreams and brain waves.

Before the conference we had been planning a special experiment together with Gary Wolf. We had four people use our prototype for one hour each in order to figure out the social codes around lifelogging and wearing such a device. How does it feel to wear it? How do people react? At the end of the Saturday we had a panel discussion together with all the participants and a highly involved crowd which resulted in some really great distinctions and clarifications.

The panel on stage at Quantifed Self Europe ’13

The discussion took a swing towards privacy issues, which is a discussion we get into a lot and love to discuss. As lifelogging gets bigger, new social codes will have to be developed in order to create mutual understanding of when it’s ok to lifelog your life, and when it’s not.

In the end, when asked how it felt giving the camera away after the experiment, there was a consensus around it feeling a bit sad.

We would especially like to thank Gary Wolf, Whitney Erin Boesel, Joshua Kauffman, Maarten den Braber and Natasha Dow Schüll for taking part in this experiment. Also thanks to Kitty Ireland from Saga who shares her thoughts about the experiment here: The great Memoto experiment

A Year Well Sliced: Lessons from my laptop – Stan James

We spend a lot of time in front of our computers. Freelancer Stan James took this to heart and decided to record the time spent in front of his laptop for a whole year.

By automatically taking a photo every hour with the laptop’s web camera he was able to capture a large amount of photos of himself doing different things.

After countless of hours of manually creating tags on every photo taken he was able to show some really interesting facts about his past year. For example, as a freelancer he spent 212 hours working from coffee shops. This really shows how much a photo can tell you about what you’ve been up to for the past year and what you can learn from it.

Read up on Stan’s lifeslice project here: http://wanderingstan.com/lifeslice

8:36pm – Buster Benson

What happens when we make taking a photo a completely planned activity? For the last 1 819 days, Buster Benson has been taking a photo of what he’s doing at exactly 8:36pm every evening. Compared the project to other lifelogging initiatives that were talked about over the weekend, this one didn’t have it’s clear focus in data, but rather in curiosity of documenting this exact time wherever he is – for the rest of his life.

Check out all of Buster’s projects at http://busterbenson.com/

Quantified Self & Digital Immortality – Clément Charles

Could extensive QS data, enriched with exhaustive electronic memory and life-long cognitive information gathering, lead mankind to create digital copies of complete personalities, ensuring some kind of immortality? This was a fascinating and refreshing philosophical discussion evolving around science fiction-inspired technological advances, epistemological questions as well as the intrinsic value of human life and posterity. Especially with all the self-tracking we’re getting into, what we do in life echoes in eternity.

Clément Charles works in media/innovation. Check out his blog here: http://www.clementcharles.me/ 

Quantified Self APIs: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Eric Jain

Eric Jain from Zenobase led a discussion, with co-curation from Gary Wolf, that involved many of the key software and device makers within everything selfi-tracking/lifelogging. A recurring issue was the one of deciding a general standard between API providers so all data from different software and devices could be cross-run and correlated more easily. Other questions that were brought up had to do with granularity of data that can be exported/accessed through API, where the consensus was that users should have access to both bundles and units of data, and that a direct feed of data was desired in addition to a “user archive” of many providers.

In conclusion, we had a great time with lots of learning and meeting interesting people. Can’t wait to see you all again!

We release weekly updates on our journey in order to let our Kickstarter backers, pre-order customers and anyone else who’s interested know where we are and what we’re doing. The previous ones are here, in case you missed them.

This week:

Hardware

• We’re happy to confirm that we received the first 200 bare printed circuit boards this Monday, and around half of them are being assembled with components on Friday.
• We did the first injection molding of one of the two parts of the Memoto plastic case and it looks very good.
• Samples of the packaging arrived from the manufacturer as well. Some minor changes are needed, but overall, we are very happy with the results.
• The custom Memoto USB cable design was released for manufacturing and is being produced. We are awaiting the first ones.
• The metal clip has been released for manufacturing.

Software

• The windows upload client is moving along, what’s left is building the user interface and connecting the application logic to it and the following user testing.
• We are modifying the USB upload protocol for both the OSX and Windows uploaders to improve the user experience and allow amongst other things the setting of camera parameters.
• Interviewing beta-testers about the momentification so we can continue improving the algorithms further.
• Designing the LED patterns and responses for the different situations they should convey information on. The LEDs are our only user-interface output, making this an important feature.

Backend

We have been working on optimizing the photo storage and processing on our servers using a multitude of benchmarks and tests, and are now feeling satisfied that we have a good scalability and so will be able to meet the user demand on photo upload, moment processing and moment browsing performance. One challenge has been to balance instant availability of photos as they are being uploaded with the benefits of having larger chunks of user photos on the server before analyzing them for the segmentation into the Memoto moments.

Wishing you all a fantastic weekend!

/Memoto Team

Epson, most popularly known for its printers and scanners, has now conjured a bigger dream – to build a wearable projection system for entertainment purposes. While this new gadget has faced several criticisms such as its display looking more like someone holding a mobile phone in front of your face, or for being extremely bulky and heavy, we believe that this is only the beginning of something great. A wonderful dream soon to become a reality!

Read more: Epson Moverio: the colander as helmet

What happens to your quantified self?

While many of us like going through the process of collecting data about ourselves, research has shown that only 46% of those who track some health aspect in their life change their way of life after gathering the data. While no hard and fast rules exist, here are just some suggestions for you to make more sense of the data you have collected.

Brain implants to restore memory

Brain implants might have been a total scare for most people 10 years back, but it seems our confidence in technology has indirectly propagated its development. It is difficult to imagine how current developments include the use of brain implants to restore memory. A thing of the past that we only saw in the movies is now turning into reality. And this would also have significant impact on those with Alzheimer’s disease sometime in future when this new technology has stabilized. We’re excited to see what is to come!

Read more: Brain implants: Restoring memory with a microchip

Codoon – the clone of Jawbone Up

Donned with features that are very similar to Jawbone UP, which include tracking how you eat, sleep, move, as well as an accompanying mobile app, Codoon is all ready to penetrate the Chinese market with this clone. Retailing at RMB 299 ($48USD), Codoon has a significant cost advantage over the Jawbone UP, which is retailing at 129.99 Euros ($167USD). Is Codoon going to take the world by storm, starting with the Chinese consumers?

Read more: Wearable Tech Maker From China Clones the ‘Jawbone Up’

Easy printing of electronic components onto paper

One of the oldest and most widely used processes, printing, originated from China. That is debatable, you might argue, but this time around, we see yet another printing innovation arising out of this country – metal-based ink allowing the printing of electronics on paper. This could possibly complement the current hot favorite, 3D-printing, magically manufacturing new products from the comfort of one’s home. Numerous wearable tech innovations would probably spring up more quickly too. Thumbs up for a great idea?

Read more: Printing Electronics Just Got Easier

Memoto at QS Europe Conference

The largest Quantified Self conference in Europe is taking place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 11^th to 12^th May 2013 this year. Check out the program line-up for this year and see you there!

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So, what’s been happening this week at Memoto?

Hardware

Regarding production,

Backend

• As we said last week, the focus here is continuing to improve the upload handling and building of moments. We have more work to do before we can accommodate production loads.
• We’ve made the process handling on the servers better. Issues with deployments and software updates because daemons were terminated improperly have been fixed.

Software

The design for the web-view of a shared moment is complete and we began working on how the LEDs will display different states like: power on, battery status.

We’ve also been continuing to:

• develop factory tests for the camera.
• build the windows client

See you next week!

/Memoto Team

Location:

Twitter handle:
@rcoimbra

What do you do at Memoto?
I am interning as an art director & visual designer. I help both the development and communications teams with a lot of different things – from branding to app design.

What’s one thing we should know about you?
I came from Brazil, where I worked in a few ad agencies in São Paulo. I was born in a little town up north and met the internet when was 14.

What book have you recently finished, or are currently reading?
The shape of design, by Frank Chimero. it’s free, beautiful and totally awesome

Favorite non-work-related website:
teamliquid

What did you want to be as a child?
I don’t remember exactly, but I am pretty sure that it involved blowing things up.

Best advice you have ever received:
If you do something for someone else, forget about it. If someone does something for you, always remember it.

Favorite Quote:
“…it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you…”
From the poem “so you want to be a writer” by Charles Bukowski.

Moment you would like to relive:
My first walks in São Paulo, after leaving my hometown.

May 14th from 18.00 to 20.00, Memoto, along with co-hosts Pronto and Ziggy, are happy to present the offline premiere of our documentary on lifelogging. The screening will be followed by a Q & A with the Memoto Team.

If you’re in Stockholm, we’d love to see you!

Reserve your (free) tickets here: http://memoto.eventbrite.com

See the trailer on lifeloggersmovie.com