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LED Mirror With Scrolling Text Or Clock

GeekSugar — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:00:06 -0700

The LED Mirror may not fit with every design scheme and it won't read your text messages like the +336+SMS Mirror, but it adds some techie flair to your vanity.

It features a scrolling LED message board and click mounted behind a glass mirror. You can program it to show time and date and save personalized messages up to 4,000 characters. It can be controlled via remote control or connect to your PC. It costs about $620.

Love It or Leave It? SMS Reading Mirror

GeekSugar — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:00:12 -0700

Usually the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is stumble over to my computer to look at my emails and check the text messages on my cell phone. Now imagine if while I was getting ready I could read text messages on my mirror?

Designer Robert Stadler from Radi Designers has made this possible with his limited edition +336+SMS Mirror, which is able to receive SMS messages sent from another cell phone. Showcased on technabob, the message mirror has LED's behind the surface of the mirror which display the messages in a continuous sequence from left to right when you get closer to the mirror.

Only twenty have been made and cost $10,000 each. Hopefully one of those inventions that will get cheaper with time!

Rear View Mirror For Your Monitor

GeekSugar — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:00:36 -0700

If you work in a cubicle farm (yeah, that's just an office with cubicles), you know there's nothing worse than someone creeping up on you from behind and trying to sneak a peek at whatever's on your computer. With all your time spent on geeksugar, Youtube and every other social networking site out there you can hardly afford to have your company's execs or noisy co-workers hip to your web world. Popgadget seems to have the answer to your problems in the form of a $13.95 Rear View Mirror that fits on your monitor.

The three-inch convex mirrors provide a wide-angle view of the area around your workspace. It's PC and Mac compatible and will allow you to get a look at the food in your teeth without whipping out the compact or opening up your mirror widget. The best part is you'll be able to see people coming so you'll know when to pick up the phone and make yourself look busy.

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One Way Web Cam For All You Glamour Girls

GeekSugar — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:00:34 -0700

Japan’s Thanko has released a new webcam, which is essentially a one-way mirror that will allow you to stare at yourself all day. According to Technabob, the device has a hidden camera behind the mirror that lets you admire your own face while you chat with your friends online.

It's a novel idea, if you are totally obsessed with yourself. Rare Mono Shop is selling the device for ¥5,980 (about $49 USD.) Of course, you can always just download the The Balooba Mirror 2.0 widget for your Mac.

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Mirror's Edge Time Trials: All the Fun, Without All the Fuzz

GeekSugar — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:09:56 -0800

Although I complained about the controls and learning curve when I first cracked open Mirror's Edge, I quickly became a bona fide addict. I still play it when I need to escape my day, and with the addition of the new downloadable content on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, I'm sure I'll get hooked all over again.

Mirror's Edge Time Trials has you racing the clock on nine different maps, without the distraction of gunfire, the guilt of beating the crap out of city cops, and being pinched by the fuzz. The only thing you'll have to worry about is falling (naturally), but this time it's not in the city. It's platforms in the sky. Bring your total concentration, race against other players in ghost mode, and move your way up the leaderboards to victory. Mirror's Edge Time Trials will be available for $10 or 800 Microsoft points. Bonus for all you PS3 players: you get an extra map, just for being you. Check out some sample play in the video above.

Try On Ray-Bans Virtually With the New Online Mirror

GeekSugar — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:05:45 -0700

The trendy and hip sunglasses company Ray-Ban is attempting to make the sunglasses shopping experience a bit easier with their new Ray-Ban Virtual Mirror download. Using 3D technology, this cool tool is similar to the IBM Virtual Mirror since it allows you to try on the goods without needing to be in the store. Now there's no guarantee how accurate this new service is, but at least it will let you know if those black Audrey Hepburn glasses are going to look chic or just cover half your face.

Mirror's Edge Review: Fun. . . Once You Get the Hang of It

GeekSugar — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:01:22 -0800

I had been looking forward to playing Mirror's Edge since the early months of 2008, all the while hoping it was going to live up to the hype I had heard swirling around it. The good news is, this first-person action title is beautiful to look at, it's a great way to break out of a RPG rut (note to self: must stop playing Fable II), and I was able to do things I had never done before in a game. The bad news? It takes quite a while to get the hang of the controls and movements, not to mention the camera angles.

Mirror's Edge places you in a suppressed city, run by a totalitarian regime. You're a messenger, running correspondence between the underground resistance, and your sole mission is to deliver your "packages" without getting caught by government surveillance teams. But the coolest part? You use rooftops high above the city floor to make your way from point A to point B. This is where things get interesting.

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As Faith - the game's main character - finding your way around the ceiling of the city is made much easier by looking for objects, platforms, pipes, anything that you can jump from, grab onto, or open, that is shaded in red. Sometimes this has you leaping from one building to another while avoiding barbed-wire, sliding under pipes, and busting open roof doors to evade the police; or to get where you need to go. But nothing is set in stone - there is never only one way to get to your destination.

The colors and graphics in Mirror's Edge are like nothing I've ever seen before. It's vibrant, crisp, has great detail, and has impressive lighting effects that emulate real sun reflecting off the glass windows of your city. Plus, the sounds are pretty awesome too. You can hear the traffic bustling below, but the one thing you hear the most is your heavy breathing and footsteps - it's a true immersion into the world. This great detail is what makes the issue with the controls such a bummer! Even with a full tutorial in the beginning, I spent more than a few hours doing some trial and error before I finally got to the point where I could really play the first level - but in the end it was totally worth it.

Mirror's Edge is that game that you can keep coming back to, even if it's only to perfect your skills. The story is engaging, and your heart really does pound when you leap off the edge of a skyscraper, or when you're being pursued by cops and can't find your way out of a building. There's a lot to love about this game - it's fresh and I've never played anything like it - but it's definitely not going to be for everyone. Especially those who have a hard time picking up control functions. . . and maybe even those who are afraid of heights.

Mirror's Edge is available now for $60 bucks for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

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IBM Debuts "Virtual Mirror" Kiosks For Hair and Makeup Help

GeekSugar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:00:54 -0800

Next week, IBM will be introducing their first ever "Virtual Mirror" kiosk at the National Retail Federation in NYC. What it does is take a digital photo (of the shopper) and scan in various makeup and hair coloring products that they may be interested in purchasing. Without having to actually try the makeup on you are guaranteed true colors and an accurate replica of your face. The EZ Face virtual mirror is already being used by Super-Pharm, one of the biggest drugstores in Israel, and will hit large US retailers sometime this year.

With virtual dressing rooms at a number of H&M stores and an Adidas shop in Paris utilizing virtual shopping mirrors, it's no surprise that this kind of technology is catching on. What do you think? Would you ever trust something like this to give you a precise makeup portrayal?

Chip Monitor Mirror: Totally Geeky or Geek Chic?

GeekSugar — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:00:45 -0800

All the other monitor mirrors on the market seem like novelty, vanity pieces in comparison to the Chimp Monitor Mirror ($9.99).

While the device does include a mirror, it seems to be made for those of us who are convinced our coworkers and bosses like to sneak up on us, not just the crowd that wants to have a handy lip-gloss mirror.

It's a convex mirror (3 inches in diameter) that fits easily on either corner of your monitor with accompanying Velcro. It comes in black or white.

Geek Tip: Take a Self Portrait With Your iPhone

GeekSugar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:50:24 -0800

One of my favorite iPhone features is its camera. It's of impressive quality for a cell phone camera, and has gotten successively better with each generation of iPhone released. Add the plethora of accessories meant to enhance the iPhone's camera and applications to enhance your photos, and my iPhone can produce better photos than my camera. But even with all of the additional bells and whistles, there was one thing I thought my iPhone camera couldn't do: take self-portraits. In fact, I thought the only real way to take a self-portrait was with a mirror, with the back of the iPhone in full view.

Sure, we joke about the famous self-portrait photos that show up all too often as Facebook profile pictures, the telltale extended arm in the photo holding the camera above eye level. But taking a self-portrait with an iPhone seemed nearly impossible; holding the phone in one hand, trying to tap the right place on the screen where the camera button is located, nearly dropping the phone on the ground. (Not that I've, um, tried this or anything).

But the iPhone self-portrait is possible! To find out how, read more.

The iPhone camera doesn't take the photo when you press the camera button, it snaps the image when you release it. So, in order to take a self portrait, open the camera function and place your finger on the camera button, but don't release. Then, you can turn the phone around, extend your arm, and take the shot. No more blurry photos or iPhone-in-the-mirror shots. Even more helpful? Make sure your phone is out of silent mode, so you'll hear the "click" of the shutter's release. Smile!

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