Valve is one of those companies you just can’t help but admire. They are consumer first (almost to a fault), and course they also haven’t sold themselves to EA and Activision. Anytime they set out to do something ambitious, they gather a lot of media attention. Rumors of a Steam hardware console have been circling for several weeks now, but it turns out their hardware ambitions are much more bizarre. Valve developer Michael Abrash admitted the company is looking to hire hardware designers to help advance a prototype in the field ofThe “lifecasting” craze never really took off -- and thank heavens for that! -- but that hasn’t kept the good folks at Looxcie from attempting to jump on the bandwagon.
The idea: Put a camera in a gadget that’s worn like a Bluetooth headset, and shoot video from the side of your face, recording everything you look at. The device has onboard storage for up to five hours of video, and it will literally record everything you see, recording over the old footage after your first five hours are up.
