Our memories have devolved to only store what the internet doesn't Is it raining right now? Let me ask my weather app ... WHEN my phone battery dies, part of me dies with it. I think that part is my brain. If I'm catching up with mates and I can't remember an actor's birth year, a Ferrari's wheelbase or the recipe for lavender couscous - I grab my phone and Google it. With answers to any question only seconds away, using search engines seems like a good idea at the time. But not only has it ruined many trivia nights my local pub, I think it's killing my memory. So I need Google even more. To my surprise, I sometimes manage to write whole sentences these days. In 2011, US researchers dubbed this condition the "Google effect." They found that people will easily forget information they know is online. However, our memory does not stop working, the research argues, but that we choose to remember information which is not readily available. I don't feel so alone with this knowledge (even though I found it using Google). Practically everyone I know uses smartphones to socialise, bank, read, watch video and organise their schedules. Cloud-connected mobile devices are a central part of life for digital natives like me. We are on the bleeding edge of an exciting digital future. The buzz is now wearable computers, with companies like Apple and Google tipped to release their own later this year. Apple's rumoured "iWatch," along with Google Glass - the search giant's augmented-reality headset - would keep users online all the time. But what happens when our batteries die? Do our memories just crumble? Surely there's an app to address this. Tweet me if you find one. Follow Omar on Twitter: @Omar_Hamwi