By the director of some of Apple's most memorable commercials, no less! Errol Morris's awesomely-named Interrotron system captures the first-person interviews for his documentaries and commercials by using two cameras with mirrored, teleprompter-like screens in front of them, each with the image of the other person's face.

Apple's patent works the exact same way, and can eliminate the lack of intimacy brought about by looking just above or below the eyes of the person you're cybering with. Of course there's no real promise of this being integrated into a real product anytime soon, as the tech for placing a working camera behind a traditional laptop LCD is still a ways away.

But OK, while we're talking Errol Morris and Interrotrons, what the hell:

[Ars Technica, Apple Insider]

In an interview with Macenstein, she shares with us some tidbits about that switch ad and what happened after. She got to do the ad because she was friends with the director's son. The paper being eaten was a true story, and she even got a free iPod out of the whole thing. All in all, she seems really together about everything. An interesting read if you're curious at all about her.

Her original Switch ad after the jump.

– Jason Chen

Where are they now? Interview with "Switcher Girl" Ellen Feiss [Macenstein via ]

Ellen Feiss, star of the most famous and most watched Switch Ad, is back! She's starring in a french movie called "Bed and Breakfast" as one half of a set of newlyweds (I think, as my French is nonexistent).

We doubt she's going to throw in any Feiss-isms in the movie—beep beep beep—but she's still cute. We hear the Dell guy's going to be in a German U-Boat movie next year. – Jason Chen

Movie Page [Bed & Breakfast]