Burn Your Memory Away:One-time Use Video Capture and Storage Deviceto Encourage Memory Appreciationto Encourage Memory Appreciationto Encourage Memory Appreciation

SMG Chih yun Cheng

• 越容易得到的事物 ,越不懂珍惜。

• Very often, people do not

• know how precious something is until it is gone. People

• do not pay attention or cherish things that are easy to

• obtain, because they come easily.

• we present a prototype design named

• PY-ROM. “Pyr” means fire in Greek,

• and “ROM” standsfor

• “Real Ordinary Memory.”

• more is more

• less is more

• 過多的記錄，往往被遺忘• 老照片，老相本，珍惜

if youonly have one more chance to relive past memories,what would you do?what would you do?what would you do?

• 賣火柴的小女孩

five suitable attributes ofmatchsticks for our design to bring the concept of “lessis more” to media capture:is more” to media capture:is more” to media capture:

• 1.Natural and intuitive interaction

• 2.Connection with tradition

• 3.One-time use

• 4.Suitable burn time

• Portability

One-time Use Matchstick Design

Figure 3 shows the prototype design of our matches inan ordinary matchbox. Each matchstick has twosymmetrical ends: one for recording (orange) and onefor playing (green).

figure 4. Light up the recording side of a PY-ROM match torecord a precious moment with a micro-camera.

figure 5. Light up the playing side of a PY-ROM match toreplay the recorded memory with a micro-projector

figure 8. On an extreme occasion,user can eliminate the originalobject such as a photo or amessage by burning it with a PYROMmatch, which captures it in avideo at the same time.

user senario

figure 7. Low fidelity prototyping usingreal matches and a built-in webcam withcomputer screen, to record video (top)and play the recorded file (bottom).

conclusionWe would like to usethis example to bring designers another element of“appreciation” to consider when designing augmentedeveryday objects.

only one-time use, which encourages people toappreciate their important moments and brings moremeaning to their everyday lives