Putting Magic in the Mundane
The new york time
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — David Rose was taking this reporter’s photo. Every 30 seconds, with a cracker-size plastic clip he wore on the placket of his short-sleeved blue plaid shirt.
The device is called the Narrative, a “life-logging” camera embedded with a GPS device so that all the photos it takes are marked by your location. And Mr. Rose, an instructor and researcher at the M.I.T. Media Lab, ground zero for such playthings (though this one was made by a company in Sweden), had been wearing the Narrative for weeks. He is fascinated by how the meta-data it captures — the thousands of photos taken each day — might be used.
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A version of this article appears in print on July 17, 2014, on page D1 of the New York edition with the headline: Magic in the Mundane. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe
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