Magic Mirror Replaces Your Mug with an Ad

Magic%20Mirror.jpg It wasn't long ago we showed you that commercial-playing hand dryer from down under and now we're back with something even creepier. The Magic Mirror is a small attachment that can change any mirror into a billboard. So when left alone, it's a billboard. Walk up to it, and it'll become a mirror....

The sensors seem very sensitive, so there's a lot of potential for this to drive you mad if all you wanna do is look in the mirror, but compared to the hand dryer, which you could easily make do without if you dry your hands on your pants, the flickin' on and off this mirror seems like it'd annoy us a helluva lot more. Click here for a demo of the mirror in action (and to watch the foxy girl in the photo wash her hands).
– Louis Ramirez

Magic Mirror [via The Red Ferret Journal]

2:58 PM on Thu Oct 19 2006
By Louis Ramirez
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jrghoull at 02:29 PM on 10/19/06
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nothing like a little voyer bathroom porn to spark up an otherwise dull afternoon!
grandmoffporkins at 02:29 PM on 10/19/06
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I came across the inverse of this in a karaoke bar in Chicago. Normally, it was a mirror, but when you walked up to it, the ad appeared. (The ad consisted of shattered glass along with some obnoxious "YOU ARE TEH UGLY FATTY YARRGH" slogan.) Annoying when sober; more annoying when drunk.

Perhaps this will be a little less obnoxious. And hey -- foxy handwashing babes, mmmm...
JPropaganda at 02:30 PM on 10/19/06
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Wouldn't you want people in front of the mirror reading it? Seems almost pointless, noone will take the time to read the ad from afar. Give me a good ol' urinal ad any day. Oh Bodog.net...you offer me something to look at other than the blank wall
gadgetfanatic at 02:58 PM on 10/19/06
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they're right, it IS creepy!
Sean Harrington at 03:13 PM on 10/19/06
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Cool. If they can subsidize by paying someone to clean the place every once in a while, that would be great...
Complexity at 03:19 PM on 10/19/06
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I'm already advertised to death on my phone, in my mail, in my email, on websites, street signs, magazines, TV... ad-nauseam. But now they want to invade you with advertisements in the bathroom? This is going way overboard!

Now I have another reason to avoid using public bathrooms.
Mr. Black at 03:24 PM on 10/19/06
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Mmmm...small of back...indeed, the afternoon DID just get better!
Brad at 05:37 PM on 10/19/06
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I've seen these for a while at coffee shops and clubs in LA.

I actually saw one that was pretty entertaining, it was a mirror UNTIL you walked up to it, and then it said "You look fine, keep moving." and was an ad for some company that "likes you the way you are".

*shrug* The technology is really simple. Just a two-way mirror and a back-light light on a sensor.

And FYI, there are ads all over bathrooms. These ones just don't take up space you might actually want to use. Beats the hell out of a bunch of postings on the back of a toilet door...
Jon Grant at 06:11 PM on 10/19/06
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We've had these for at least 3 or 4 years in the UK... Are you guys in the dark ages or what? ;-)
vixi at 06:39 PM on 10/19/06
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I've seen these before at trendy little restaurants in Fort Lauderdale. They aren't awful. I prefer these to pop up ads and flyers on my windshield.