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Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear

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87 points davidbarker | 1 comments | 02 Oct 23 20:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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satvikpendem ◴[02 Oct 23 21:31 UTC] No.37744704[source]▶
There's a short short by Ted Chiang about this concept (he also wrote Stories of Your Life which the movie Arrival is based off of). In the story, a father records his family's entire life but he realizes that he was just living vicariously through the camera instead of truly being present in the moment.
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1. blacksmith_tb ◴[02 Oct 23 22:31 UTC] No.37745333[source]▶
Ah, yes, that's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"[1] one of his best (though I also like "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" quite a bit too).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...