Indian-origin techie's device that 'takes a picture every minute' raises privacy concerns

An Indian-origin inventor has invented a wearable device that he claims will provide users with "infinite memory" of their lives. Advait Paliwal announced the launch of Iris, an AI wearable, via social media yesterday.Iris, he continued, is a device that "takes pictures of every minute" and stores them on the device or uploads them to the cloud. The device is designed to catch "the little moments we usually let slip away, revealing patterns we never noticed."

What does the device do?

The device shoots photos, captions them, and arranges them chronologically. It employs artificial intelligence to assist wearers in recalling previously forgotten data.?

“Iris also has a focus mode. It notices when you get distracted and proactively tells you to get back on track,” Paliwal added.

In his blog post, the India-born, San Francisco-based entrepreneur stated that the evil eye symbol inspired the device's design. He stated that he spent the summer working on the device at Augmentation Lab in Cambridge, a two-month hacker accelerator residency program for AI and hardware talent.?

At the end of the program, he introduced Iris to approximately 250 people at the MIT Media Lab. "Many loved the idea and even wanted to get one for themselves," he told me.

How did people on the internet react?

Paliwal was confronted with comparable privacy difficulties on X. Here's what people wrote.?

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