A new logging camera for memory loss patients is supposed to show images of what they have already seen to help it be remembered in the future. The “Sensecam” takes low resolution pictures. It helps to recall a piece of information that someone has already seen. It has been tested on both Alzheimer's and amnesia patents. In the severe amnesia case, the memory was triggered immediately. Ten months later the patient was still able to recall the events despite not seeing the pictures. With Alzheimer's patients, it has been tested that the patient can remember the events for up to three months, still without seeing the images again. Previously, patients would keep diaries in order to try and remember events. This does not show them a picture. The Sensecam can stimulate senses that a written diary cannot. The Sensecam also contains sensors including infra-red, heat, heart-rate and pressure to record health information. The Sensecam was invited in 1999 by Lindsay Williams. 
Any person who suffers from slight memory loss, or on the opposite end, has a severe case of Alzheimer's disease should really look into the Sensecam. It stimulates the senses unlike a journal. Journals may stimulate psychological senses but the Sensecam does that too. It keeps record of health issues too. Williams, a researcher at Microsoft Laboratory wanted to help solve simple memory problems like losing your keys. This is an invention that can really change people's lives. I think it is a great way for people to preserve event in their lives and keep treasured memories with them. Doctors and nurses everywhere should read this article and learn more about the Sensecam. It can be something they may prescribe to patients. Also, psychologists and similar doctors may be interested in referring it to patients who want to stimulate psychological senses by more than just an old journal entry.

This article is discussing a revolutionary new device that is designed to help memory loss patients, a small, wearable camera that captures images automatically could change the way memory loss patients, in particular those with Alzheimer's.The SenseCam takes low-resolution photographs (about one third of a mega pixel), with a fisheye lens, at a rate of two per minute. the reason this works is because the brain doesn't need a crystal clear image to jog their memory just something that they can see to help them remember.

In my opinion if this camera really does work it could be i wonderful new invention that could radically change the lives of Alzheimer's patients, and other memory lose patients throughout the world.

This article discusses the revolutionary use of a small camera called a SenseCam, which can help memory loss patients, especially people with Alzheimer’s. What this camera does is it takes low-resolution photographs with a fisheye lens at about two pictures a minute. This allows the person using it to recall those events with the pictures which would be hard for them to memorize, instead of creating a memory, which is why this is especially good for Alzheimer’s patients. One person with amnesia who was using this for a trial was able to describe things that weren’t in the images in great detail, just as if she had full memory about them. Many of the patients that have used SenseCam were even able to recall the images they saw for several months without reviewing them. Because of the way this device works for its patients, one of the doctors in the study believes that memory loss patients can still store information, but are just not able to access it, which is precisely what the images trigger.

This is an important step in helping those who are memory impaired. This sounds like a great, handy little device that serves as a huge convenience for not only the people with memory loss symptoms, but also their loved ones who can live with that person’s own self again. Even though diaries are known to help patients by helping them recall things as well, but the SenseCam is quicker and it does your work for you, and also you are able to visually see things to remember, which could be more effective than just reading about them. It’s good to hear that there’s something out there that’s making life easier for these people who can’t do hardly anything else about this type of problem that they have. Memory loss is among the most permanent things that can happen to someone and it’s just nice to hear that there are strides being taken to help this problem and give these people their lives back.  

In the UK scientist and doctors have designed a camera built around the need to help people with bad memory loss to remember their day. In the test trial the woman wore it on a day trip with her husband and, after viewing the pictures she remembered everything, as she stated, “the memory came flooding back”. She suffers from severe amnesia and before this camera, she could remember nothing of her day’s journey. This suppose to help with those suffering with amnesia, Alzheimer's, and any other form of memory lose, because the camera takes two pictures every minute, it means that the patient will see the days journey and hopefully will recall it in full detail, or close enough to recall it. The camera is light weight, shorts low-resolution pictures, and worn at chest level, passed of a design by Lyndsay Williams, a researcher at Microsoft's research laboratory, who wanted to build something to solve simple memory problems, such as losing keys, back in 1999.  Vicon is hoping to produce this camera, costing roughly $800, a small price to pay for one’s own memory.

This product is a huge step in human mental health, and health over all. The ability to recall lost memory, and even see what might have happened to a person who got injured could save the family and even government thousands of dollars. If the camera takes two pictures every minute can it pick up roughly anything and everything, and being at chest level few people will actually notice it. The fact that it only takes pictures and no sound is a just a small problem, give the company a few years, and they’ll have video and given our technology advance wireless transfer, so everything is set to a huge data base located at the persons home, or at a dispatch of some sorts. It’d be cool to see how far into the research they’ll actually go, see how small they can make the camera and yet still get the same results.

People with memory loss now how a new form of having enduring memories.  The Vicon Revue, as it will be called, is a memory aiding device that takes pictures and stores them on a 1 GB memory chip.  Studies have shown that once people review the pictures taken, they seem to be able to recall things that may not have even been in a picture.  It has also shown that people may have these memories for as long as ten years after the event happened.  While many people with memory loss used to write diaries and keep journals with limited success, it may now be normal to see them walking around with cameras strapped chest high.

I'm not really sure what to think of this study.  In one respect I want it to work and be successful.  But I am still skeptical of what effect something like this may have on the brain.  Could people actually voluntarily not keep memories?  Or would they stop paying attention to what was going on around them because they knew that they had a camera strapped to their chest?  I would love to see this work and help those with memory loss, but I'm still skeptical.

         The SenseCam is a new thing that can help people with memory loss retreive information from the days past. The camera takes two pictures per minute and can be placed at chest height. The patients will then be able to store the images on a computer and then review them. The images have shown to be very effective, the patients can remember things that were not even noted through the pictures. It also helps to jog their memory and they can remember things that happened months in advance. The SenseCam that will soon be mass produced and will cost around $800. This will help those with memory loss and may even be able to almost cure them of thier disease. 

 I think that it is a great invention it will change the lives of those with memory loss and their family and friends. It will  give them a greater sense of freedom and will allow them to grow. Before the invention of the sense cam the people suffering from memory loss would document their days events in a written journal. This would take a lot of time and effort. Where the camera does the job for you. The only thing they have to worry about now is that they have to transfer the pictures to a computer and charge their camera. This would require little effort and time. The family members of those suffering from memory loss would also gain from this invention. They would get to see the one they love happier and less frustrated.   

        Now for people with Alzheimer’s and those who have memory loss, a tiny camera can take pictures to “capture the moment” to help one remember events that have happened.  This camera can be worn on someone’s clothes and it automatically takes pictures and “captures images”.  This “Sense Cam takes low-resolution photographs” that are about one third of a mega pixel, with a “fisheye lens, at a rate of two per minute.”  But just because these pictures have a low-resolution and aren’t of good quality doesn’t mean that it won’t help people remember what happened at that moment that the picture was taken.  They are “enough to prompt our brains to access previously locked information”.  "The SenseCam is all about recalling a piece of information someone already has, rather than creating a memory," said Dr. Emma Berry, a clinical neuropsychologist , who has been working with memory loss patients using the camera. One woman tested this new camera and stated that her “memory came flooding back” and was not only able to recall the image but other events that happened during that time.  She was able to remember these events up to 10 months after the images were taken away from her.

             This Sense Cam was invented by Lyndsay Williams in 1999 with a 1Gb memory.  It can store up to 30,000 photos.  Lyndsay Williams is a researcher at Microsoft’s research lab.  She just wanted to invent something that would help patients with these memory problems, even for things as simple as losing your keys.  I find this new device to be a very good idea.  I know personally that I would love to have one of these for my Grandmother and I wish we had one for my Great Grandmother before she died.  My mom’s side of the family has a history of having Alzheimer’s.  This is such a good idea.  I would love to have one for myself because I don’t have a very good memory.