I think it is reasonable to suggest the whole magic mirror/LCD display embedded in mirror glass thing has been something less than a runaway success in digital signage. I see them in “stores of the future” and one-off whiz-bang installs, but don’t get any sense they’re widely installed by or for anyone. […]
Rome-based design and technology studio Ultravioletto, known for producing installations with robot dancers in “5 Sonic Arms” and code art in “Tribute to Creators,” recently unveiled their “Neural Mirror,” which takes all of the digital signage and communications industry’s concerns about privacy and biometrics and transforms them into an installation with a provocative artistic statement. […]
A Toronto company called ModiFace has unveiled a very snappy, very impressive augmented reality try-on mirror for MAC cosmetic stores that lets women – mostly – virtually try on different types and shades of things like lipstick, without actually using sample product at the counter. […]
I’ve seen no end of photos and videos of “magic” mirrors for fashion retailing applications, and one or two for hotel rooms, but this is the first suggestion of how an LCD mirror display with a touch overlay could be used in health and fitness. […]
Probably like most people, I tend to think a mirror is a mirror, and more particularly as a digital signage guy, I assumed a mirror display is just a display with any old mirror glass bonded to the face of the LCD. Well, yes and no. Turns out there’s a lot to mirrors. […]
A Taiwan-based electronics firm has started shipping a $189 smart mirror aimed at the consumer market that looks like the sort of thing some mid-tier retailers would like to have at their cosmetic counters. […]
I’ve been following all the tech writing coming from CES, and from my narrow perspective, LG seems to be getting more attention than Samsung when it comes to displays. LG has the bendy OLED and the double-sided OLED, and LG has certainly put more of a focus on OLED than its Korean rival in the past year or so. […]
