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. 🙂
Want.
Want.
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. 🙂
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. 🙂
Oh THAT is wicked cool.
Oh THAT is wicked cool.
By the way, this is the SAME future that has Ridley Scott directing the motion picture adaptation of “Monopoly”
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=492715
By the way, this is the SAME future that has Ridley Scott directing the motion picture adaptation of “Monopoly”
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=492715
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.
What about the guy they showed trying out different t-shirt designs (monkey face decal) while he was seeing what he’d look like wearing it?
Ah that’s a good example. I missed it because it was so short and the angle wasn’t correct so I didn’t associate what he was doing correctly.
Some high end stores are using the mirror like this to allow you to change the cut or colour of your outfit virtually, in your change room, before you place your custom order.
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.
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.
What about the guy they showed trying out different t-shirt designs (monkey face decal) while he was seeing what he’d look like wearing it?
I want a clip of people have sex up against it! Woohoo!
And this was already in Helsinki’s City Centre last time we were there in winter of 2004 — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ9JvzYec4U&feature=related
And then there’s always this one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
Don’t know what I was on when I typed that typo! That should have read “having sex”. Yikes! *blushes*
I want a clip of people have sex up against it! Woohoo!
Ah that’s a good example. I missed it because it was so short and the angle wasn’t correct so I didn’t associate what he was doing correctly.
And this was already in Helsinki’s City Centre last time we were there in winter of 2004 — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ9JvzYec4U&feature=related
And then there’s always this one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
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.
They do things like this already in children’s museums up here, to make exhibits interactive.
They do things like this already in children’s museums up here, to make exhibits interactive.
Some high end stores are using the mirror like this to allow you to change the cut or colour of your outfit virtually, in your change room, before you place your custom order.
Don’t know what I was on when I typed that typo! That should have read “having sex”. Yikes! *blushes*
And just in time for Christmas. Trophy wives, place your orders… – ZM
And just in time for Christmas. Trophy wives, place your orders… – ZM