Neat Tech

The idea is surprisingly simple once you think about it: pair a large touch-screen LCD display of the type used in the Microsoft Surface prototype and elsewhere with an ordinary mirror. Simple, but the result is, I think, a whole lot more interesting than just large-format touch screen displays alone:

There’s a blog entry on the gizmo from the folks who dreamed it up.

I like living in the future. 🙂

30 thoughts on “Neat Tech

  1. That is pretty nice! I wonder how this fits in to my realization that I am more likely to check my appearance in a web cam preview than I am a mirror these days. 🙂

  2. That is pretty nice! I wonder how this fits in to my realization that I am more likely to check my appearance in a web cam preview than I am a mirror these days. 🙂

  3. Honestly, I don’t get it. I think the only reason it’s a whole lot more interesting as displayed is because the person shown using it the most was an attractive female. Otherwise none of the demonstrated applications actually utilized the mirror capability. IMO it was more a distraction than anything.

    So as to neat tech and a neat art/science installation, sure. As to a whole lot more interesting than normal touch screen lcds/likely to replace such, Don’t see it.

    • I have to agree. I noticed the guy with the t-shirt, and I think that’s a pretty neat application, but that one application among the dozens of other things they showed doesn’t make it worth it to me.

      I find all that pretty flower swoopy stuff to be 1) boring and 2) hard to see when the background is reflective.

      If it did more that actually utilized the mirror image, then I’d get it.

  4. Honestly, I don’t get it. I think the only reason it’s a whole lot more interesting as displayed is because the person shown using it the most was an attractive female. Otherwise none of the demonstrated applications actually utilized the mirror capability. IMO it was more a distraction than anything.

    So as to neat tech and a neat art/science installation, sure. As to a whole lot more interesting than normal touch screen lcds/likely to replace such, Don’t see it.

  5. I have to agree. I noticed the guy with the t-shirt, and I think that’s a pretty neat application, but that one application among the dozens of other things they showed doesn’t make it worth it to me.

    I find all that pretty flower swoopy stuff to be 1) boring and 2) hard to see when the background is reflective.

    If it did more that actually utilized the mirror image, then I’d get it.

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