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I Want To Stand In Front Of This Motorised Mirror To Break My Brain
Like those pin art toys where you can create images by pushing out certain pins, this mirror recreates your image by using hundreds of spokes and motors to re-align and replicate itself to look like the thing standing in front of it. It’s a mind trip seeing little spokes making a bigger image.
This Film Can Turn Your Window Into A Mirror And Back Again
Windows that automatically adjust from transparent to opaque are already available, including in Boeing’s new 787. But the glass still absorbs and transmits heat to a room even if it keeps the sun out. So researchers have developed an easy-to-apply transparent film that can turn a window into a mirror that blocks and reflects light away.
This Smokestack Looks Like It’s Sliced Up And Floating In Mid-Air
Normally you might consider a smokestack to be something of an eye-sore, but this “Sky Stack” Is very much the opposite. With parts of it seemingly missing, the whole thing turns into an awesome fixture.
These Crazy Light Patterns Stretch On To Infinity
Mirrors can be for so much more than just gawking at your slack-jawed mug first thing in the morning. They can, for example, be used to give the illusion that towering designs made of light reach out past you, to an indeterminable vanishing point seemingly so distant as to be infinitely far. That second one is what Carsten Nicolai is into.
This Car Mirror Works Like A Flat Disco Ball To Completely Eliminate Blind Spots
It’s kind of surprising that an innovation like a no-blindspot side mirror wasn’t created by the R&D team at a major automotive manufacturer, but instead by a mathematics professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia. That doesn’t make it any less awesome, however.
iPhone 4 Mirror Back Replacement Is Perfect For Both Makeup And Drugs
This is going to be a huge hit: an iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S back replacement. Not a case, but a real mirror that replaces your current iPhone’s back cover. And they are only $US30!
Sadly, This Photoshop Mirror Doesn’t Include A Magic Wand Tool For Baggy Eyes
If only getting ready in the morning was as easy as opening Photoshop and going to town on your face with its myriad of correction tools. That’s the tantalising dream this Retouch Mirror from Atypyk promises, but doesn’t deliver.
Redirect The Sun’s Rays With This Solar-Powered, Self-Controlled Mirror
Instead of an electricity generating solar panel, a motorised sun-bouncing mirror known as a heliostat is another approach to solar-powered lighting. And for just $US400 the SunFlower will redirect up to 50,000 lumens of sunlight directly into your home.
