Interactive Mirror dazzles onlookers, never lies

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.

Interactive Mirror from Alpay Kasal on Vimeo.

[John @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:12AM]

hey, let's not knock on childish wonderment.

[Matthew Hilario @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:07PM]

all the fun can distract me from how fat i am!

[switchbitch @ Oct 23rd 2008 5:29PM]

LSD and total freak-out not included.

[DJ @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:16AM]

now add a phone with video conference capbilities

[JerJer @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:17AM]

hey this is good stuff !

[StalematE @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:46AM]

"why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"

[Lowest Ranked @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:54AM]

Swing and a miss.

[CosterMonger @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:20AM]

now if we could have that mirror ripple effect from Donnie Darko

[iEye @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:22AM]

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...

[phanbouy @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:04PM]

W. T. F.?

[Testies, Testies, 1, 2... 3? @ Oct 23rd 2008 2:29PM]

Or when you look into the mirror, it could morph you into an iPhone, thus causing you to further fall in love with yourself!

[skeptical @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:25AM]

MUCH cooler than the iPod touch or MacBook pro

[joe23521 @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:49AM]

And almost as reflective!

[Walter @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:26AM]

Who put fingerprints all over my mirror?!

[trainwrecka @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:25AM]

looks like it needs to be re-calibrated.

[Clasifyd @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:34AM]

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.

[SiLo @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:35AM]

Add alcohol and this gets tons more amusing.

[MyHeadisFed @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:09PM]

I think you meant to say mushrooms.

[Benson @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:16PM]

Add both; and what doesn't, anyway? (With either...)

[Esat Dedezade @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:36AM]

I want one right now!

[konshuss @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:38AM]

i can't wait to see the designs you can create having sex up against one of these in a bathroom.

[stefan @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:44AM]

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.

[phanbouy @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:05PM]

lolz stefan ftw

[konshuss @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:12PM]

further clarification, i don't need *any* special mirror to create designs while having sex with it... i just lack the colour options.

[leo @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:40AM]

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

[Sabones @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:43AM]

It's a cool screen, but there's a lot of glare.

ohhhhh.

[leo @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:04PM]

yeah ,they're going for the macbook look, they heard that people prefer it




ugh

[ScooterDe @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:43AM]

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.

[Lowest Ranked @ Oct 23rd 2008 7:06PM]

Since I'm in such a good mood can we hear your outtake on human life itself, Mr. Pescismist.

[Mike @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:49AM]

Shockingly, the new macbooks manage to have more glare than this mirror setup.

[Rory W @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:12PM]

Saw something similar on this week's CSI:Miami..finally something realistic in the show!

[Steve @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:08PM]

perfect for tetris.

[bureX @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:10PM]

It seems that Microsoft already has one of these:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/mshome_2008_06.asp

[cody @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:23PM]

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

[phanbouy @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:50PM]

something about that picture reminds me of the late 80s and high tops

[Vander @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:22PM]

No no, Is more like: "This is your brain on drugs"

[bench os @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:13PM]

looks like fun as long as you don't have to pay for this toy

[buttsecks @ Oct 23rd 2008 2:11PM]

yeeeeaaa... how long before someone mounts a camera on the other side and puts this in a fitting room?

[Yup @ Oct 23rd 2008 2:38PM]

already been done. Prada store SoHo NYC.

[Feddu @ Oct 23rd 2008 2:59PM]

ooh no!!.. ladies will take even more time with a mirror, NOT!!

[Lowest Ranked @ Oct 23rd 2008 7:08PM]

And you still have nothing to worry about.

[John @ Oct 23rd 2008 3:37PM]

Warning: People in mirror are less attractive than they appear.

Futurama ftw.

[Josh @ Oct 23rd 2008 9:39PM]

Now, who's going to invent the self-cleaning mirror?

[Josh @ Oct 23rd 2008 4:24PM]

Now, who's going to invent the self-cleaning mirror?

[dziewuliz @ Oct 23rd 2008 5:23PM]

Well.. Seems you don't need lipstick anymore to say you're dumping someone..

[Lowest Ranked @ Oct 23rd 2008 8:26PM]

I think you just admitted to wearing lipstick.

[Holger @ Oct 24th 2008 3:35AM]

very cool... thoughofc touching a mirror gets it all smudged...