It was just a month ago that Alpay Kasal of Lit Studios was impressing us with
LaserGames, beaming all sorts of fun, interactive visuals on the wall. Now, with a few tweaks, he's turned that projector around and made a two-way mirror into a sort of digital portal. "Interactive Mirror" uses the same basic mouse emulation as LaserGames -- it seems to lack multi-touch but offers some interesting ideas, like showing how a custom T-shirt would look if you were wearing it. That's potentially useful, but its primary function seems to be inducing childish wonderment in your friends. If the wide-eyed participants in the video below are any indication, it seems to do that quite well.
posted Oct 23rd 2008 11:09AM
hey, let's not knock on childish wonderment.
all the fun can distract me from how fat i am!
LSD and total freak-out not included.
now add a phone with video conference capbilities
hey this is good stuff !
"why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"
Swing and a miss.
now if we could have that mirror ripple effect from Donnie Darko
useful features would be able to change the color of the shirt you are have on on the fly,
what you would look like if you lost oh say 5, 45 pounds,
or if she could increase her rack to DD cups...
W. T. F.?
Or when you look into the mirror, it could morph you into an iPhone, thus causing you to further fall in love with yourself!
MUCH cooler than the iPod touch or MacBook pro
And almost as reflective!
Who put fingerprints all over my mirror?!
looks like it needs to be re-calibrated.
Just what I needed, another way to dirty up my mirror; Like making machine gun sound effects while brushing my teeth and shaking off instead of towling weren't doing the job.
Add alcohol and this gets tons more amusing.
I think you meant to say mushrooms.
Add both; and what doesn't, anyway? (With either...)
I want one right now!
i can't wait to see the designs you can create having sex up against one of these in a bathroom.
there, corrected that for you:
i can't wait to see the designs you can create having sex with one of these in a bathroom.
lolz stefan ftw
further clarification, i don't need *any* special mirror to create designs while having sex with it... i just lack the colour options.
very impressive and cool looking - I'm sure future versions will be better calibrated / more responsive / yadda yadda yadda
what REALLY makes this mirror cool is beautiful music for you to die to
It's a cool screen, but there's a lot of glare.
ohhhhh.
yeah ,they're going for the macbook look, they heard that people prefer it
ugh
So, adding a mirror finish finally makes surface tech useful?
Doubtless it will make friends with retailers and high-end bars and the like for a while until the novelty wears off (as it becomes cheaper), then it will show up in expensive apartments, and finally in the museum of interesting but useless tech.
Since I'm in such a good mood can we hear your outtake on human life itself, Mr. Pescismist.
Shockingly, the new macbooks manage to have more glare than this mirror setup.
Saw something similar on this week's CSI:Miami..finally something realistic in the show!
perfect for tetris.
It seems that Microsoft already has one of these:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/mshome_2008_06.asp
seeing multitouch integrated with this would be very cool
example, being able to 'drag' the shoulders of a shirt outwards to adjust the size to that of the user
another cool thing would be a camera in it that can snap a pic of your face and then being able to contort the image on the mirrorscreen
childish i know, thats me
something about that picture reminds me of the late 80s and high tops
No no, Is more like: "This is your brain on drugs"
looks like fun as long as you don't have to pay for this toy
yeeeeaaa... how long before someone mounts a camera on the other side and puts this in a fitting room?
already been done. Prada store SoHo NYC.
ooh no!!.. ladies will take even more time with a mirror, NOT!!
And you still have nothing to worry about.
Warning: People in mirror are less attractive than they appear.
Futurama ftw.
Now, who's going to invent the self-cleaning mirror?
Now, who's going to invent the self-cleaning mirror?
Well.. Seems you don't need lipstick anymore to say you're dumping someone..
I think you just admitted to wearing lipstick.
very cool... thoughofc touching a mirror gets it all smudged...