Everyday we have new experiences, we make memories of moments and more often than not these memories fade with time. We live in a modern society that is obsessed with sharing every moment of our life with each other through social media. Current trends show that fb, google, Instagram and other tech companies feed on this need for instant gratification and prey on nostalgia. This is evident from the newly introduced fad of creating instant “memories” and “stories” through these apps. In combination with the fear of losing one's memory in the future that affects a large majority of the population today, these apps have resulted in a society that thrives on a curated lifestyle. This curation of images for social media has resulted in a chaotic clutter of images and studies have shown that taking a picture of a moment actually takes away from having an experiential recollection of that moment. Since these pictures are focused more on sharing to the social media verse, a lot of moments are lost and considered dispensable or mundane creating this new type of “self-presentational anxiety”. We need a better way to document our life.

Project Memento is a wearable device that is timed to autonomously capture moments of your life. It captures a wide range of stimuli including visuals, sounds, locations data and then catalogs this data into an experienceable searchable database. Effectively giving you the ability to reminisce years and years of your life all in one place. It takes control away from the user, creating photographs supplemented by layers of stimuli giving you a picture you can actually experience.