Hitachi's RFID-enabled mirror
By Barb Dybwad 
posted Jul 21st 2005 8:00AM
posted Jul 21st 2005 8:00AM
So there's no shortage of mirror TVs out there, but Hitachi's doing one on steroids, that's more of a computer display than a television-like device. It's half mirror, half diffusion film and will display digital information on the surface via LCD projector. The technology, dubbed Miragraphy, integrates sensors, RFID readers, barcode readers, and cameras so it can automagically respond to people presence and act accordingly to personalize its digital content display based on their identities. This would place the device squarely into the "cool, yet kinda creepy" category. Should be out in Japan (of course) on September 30.
And the mirror responds, "You're putting on weight! And I wonder why? According to SkyNet, you splurged on a 2 for the price of 1 pack of chocolate eclairs, spend 4 hours watching Big Brother every day and haven't been to the gym in 3 months." Get a life, bitch!"
Just to point out... this doesn't seem too far from being able to try on your entire wardrobe without moving away from the mirror... Just getting the perspective right for the viewer... but if it has cameras built in too... well... can't be too dificult to include some optical recognition depth perception.
Good morning John Anderton, you're looking good today!
This is Minority Report coming into our lives...
"This is Big Brother..."
Yes it is Big Brother--and He's here to help, just like in 1984. He's that Big, cuddly, mustachioed fellow who deeply cares about the citizens of Oceania. I've read 1984 and it's a government teaching manual on how to build a wonderful society. This is doubleplusgood technology. I agree with Dr. Jose Delgado and Zbigniew Brzezinski, we need technology to mold our lives and build a New World Order.
"Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain." Dr. Jose Delgado
“Electrical stimulation of the superior temporal convolution induced feminine striving and confusion about his own sexual identity. For example, the patient, an 11-year old boy, said, ‘I was thinking whether I was a boy or a girl, which one I’d like to be,’ and ‘I’d like to be a girl.’ After one of the stimulations the patient suddenly began to discuss his desire to get married to the male interviewer."
--11 year old boy with implants in his brain under the ministrations of the good Dr. Delgado in 1968. Doubleplusgood!