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Life Mirror helps people turn everyday conversation into a living record of who they are.
Designed for older adults and people in later life, it creates a simpler way to preserve memories, relationships, experiences, and personal perspectives. Research behind the concept found that people wanted AI to reduce the effort of reflection while preserving autonomy, authentic voice, and human relationships.
Instead of asking someone to write a memoir or organize decades of photos, Life Mirror starts with something natural: conversation.
A conversation over breakfast might begin with a childhood home. An old photograph might bring back a forgotten trip. A story about a red jacket might lead to a person, a place, and another memory from thirty years ago. Life Mirror carries this context forward, helping people revisit stories naturally as their life unfolds.
AI works quietly in the background as a new kind of memory layer. It can connect conversations across time, surface relevant photos, bring scattered memories together, and help turn years of storytelling into an experience that can be explored later. The person decides what matters, what should be preserved, and how their story continues to grow.
The result is My Story, a personal world built from real photographs, original voice, direct quotes, relationships, places, and moments. Family members can later move through these memories and experience the person through what they actually chose to leave behind.
Life Mirror imagines a future where preserving a life no longer requires deliberately documenting it. AI can make memory more accessible, personal, and connected while keeping authorship with the human being at the center.
A life can be remembered with AI, while still remaining entirely your own.
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