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MIT Dad Creates Home System to Capture Son’s First Words

In Big Ideas on June 14, 2011 at 3:51 pm

Image via Fast Company

Through a series of fish-eye lenses, advanced transcription software, and lots (and lots) of video footage, MIT cognitive scientist Deb Roy took his lab and placed it at home to capture everything that his son did. That’s around 90,000 hours worth of footage allowing him to catalogue everything from how his son learned new words to his first historical step. (We’re talking about intense home videos here.)

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