astronomy

Narrative Clip

Narrative Clip is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Narrative Clip rather than just read about it. In short: The Narrative Clip is a small wearable lifelogging camera. Its development began in 2012 by the Swedish company Memoto after a successful crowd funding via Kickstarter.

Key takeaways

Narrative Clip belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Narrative Clip to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Narrative Clip from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Narrative Clip is a small wearable lifelogging camera. Its development began in 2012 by the Swedish company Memoto after a successful crowd funding via Kickstarter. It can automatically take a picture every 30 seconds whilst being worn throughout the day, a practice known as "life-logging". At the end of the day the Clip uploads the photos and videos it made into the vendor's cloud service, where they are processed and organized into collections called Moments, available to the user through a web client or mobile apps. The Moments or individual photos and videos can be shared through other apps or through the company's own social network.

History The company made its first headlines after raising $500,000 from a Kickstarter campaign which closed in Nov, 2012. First units to backers were starting to be sent out during the autumn 2013. Originally named Memoto, the company then proceeded to change its name to Narrative and the product name to the Narrative Clip and kept on selling the first Narrative Clip on its website and through various retailers throughout the next 2 years. The vastly improved Narrative Clip 2, featuring an improved camera, a modular attachment system, video capture, Bluetooth control and a built-in Wifi cloud uploader was unveiled at CES 2015 and started shipping in early 2016.

Due to cashflow problems and a broad decline in venture capital interest in wearables during 2016, the original company had to shut down late 2016. The assets and cloud service were acquired by a new company called Third Dot, run by some of the former founders and employees, which is keeping the service running for the existing users as well as maintaining sales of the Clip 2.

Press The lifelogging idea and Narrative Clip captured the attention and imagination of magazines and newspapers worldwide, like Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, New York Times International Herald, TechCrunch, FastCompany, Huffington Post, Wired, TheNextWeb, Condé Nast Traveller, Engadget and The Verge. Swedish National TV News reported on the original Memoto company and camera and that it would be released in spring 2013. Some writers speculated about potential privacy concerns due to automatic photography, for example the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

See also Wearable computing EyeTap Gordon Bell Steve Mann Sensecam

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Narrative Clip

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Narrative Clip claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Narrative Clip before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Narrative Clip ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Narrative Clip

In research: Narrative Clip appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Narrative Clip in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Narrative Clip is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Camera stubs, Digital cameras, Kickstarter-funded products, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Narrative Clip outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Narrative Clip in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Narrative Clip means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Narrative Clip out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Narrative Clip in simple terms?

The Narrative Clip is a small wearable lifelogging camera. Its development began in 2012 by the Swedish company Memoto after a successful crowd funding via Kickstarter.

Why does Narrative Clip matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Narrative Clip?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Narrative Clip.