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TV Set Doubles as a Mirror
Bill Kendrick writes "New Scientist reports there's a new wide-screen LCD from Philips which becomes a mirror when you turn it off. Now I just need that holographic fireplace..." Sorry - a dupe from June
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now I need to comb my hair before I watch tv ;(
Now i can check my hair between commercials. Thanks philips!
Hi there
I'd love on in my bathroom, I wonder if I can have alpha transparency and watch TV while I'm shaving. Or hook it up to the TV-Out on my PC and read slashdot while I'm in the bath!!
a TV that displays pictures of handsome people and claims it's a mirror to make me feel good inside?
I use my TV also as a message board. When I go somewhere and want people to know where I am, I just write a message on a paper, turn the TV on, put the paper on it, and turn the TV off. It sticks on for some reason, does anyone know why?
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
After years searching, the slashdotter brings their first girlfriend home only to have her scream, "I'm leaving you PERVERT!"
"But it's my TV, honest..."
So now your SO will not only be able to talk a movie to death, she'll also be tempted to turn the TV off to check her hair/teeth/whatever.
Mirror posted here.
You watch the tv, look at all the hot chicks and muscle-guys, and you find a fat ugly guy lying on the couch, when you turn the tv off..
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FM Clan
They Can't.... The editor hasn't bought his Philips Mirror TV yet!
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He's just saving up for the big post of the night which will be when LOTR wins the Oscar for Best Picture ...
You'd be surprised at how it has improved my attentio... Hey this thing is a TV AND a mirror... cool.
If only my life could be that interesting...
Philips just stole the very function of the sun to turn televisions into mirrors, and even when the TV is on. I wonder if she can bring a lawsuit against Philips if they have patented the invention. Though, how would the sun show prior art? Anyone have some documentation of the first time they saw themselves in the glare coming off the television?
JasonBlogs
Doesn't a regular TV do that if you wipe the dust off the screen regularly?
Doesn't TV add ten pounds to your appearance?
I don't need an even stronger reason to never turn the TV off.
Romper Room had this in the 1960s!
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
That lightbulb was just CG'ed on in the Special Edition, you know. Damn that Lucas.
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Disheveled hair be gone! Green teeth be gone! Now introducing a new product: THE SINK TV(tm). Brush your teeth, comb your hair, and frag all at the same time! (idea is copyright 2004 JasonFncsu)
Jason Faulkner
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That would be OBNOXIOUS!
If I want to watch my Star Wars, I want to do so without seeing me and my girlfriend in the screen...
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
Whoa, a TV an a mirror in one... that would really mess up your Feng Shui!
It's a sin to call a piece of electronics ugly on /.
You should know better then that.
Step one, get a normal TV. It is probably cheaper.
Step two, get a normal mirror.
Step three, put the mirror in the back of the room and the TV in the front of the room.
Absolutely. And with a little tweaking it should be possible to open Slashdot story in the main window, while RTFAing in the small one. Then may be people will stop asking questions which were clearly answered in the article.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
Yes, some things are just way more scary than Java the Hut.
So if you mount it above your bed you and your life partner could either watch a porno, or be the porno.
shhhhhhhhhhhh,
1) it's not a duplicate story, it's a mirror.
2) Cut&Past the high rated comments. Free Karma!!!
Kids, don't try it at home.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
I suppose that depends on who's looking at it... Litterally! :-D
"condo" in nepali means ass. and not the four legged kind. so you got one for your condo? just checking. :)
Just remember, it's a funhouse mirror!
-- thinkyhead software and media
It used to be said that a broken mirror would take 7 years to replace due to cost. Looks like the good old days are back :)
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it dissolve.
I grew up in a household that made heavy use of TV in pretty much every room of the house. It didn't affect my atten
"Wow, you're like some kind of superhero able to ward off happiness and success at every turn."
-- Ryan Stiles
Sorting by score first put your post at the top, and I was just starting to appreciate your cutting expression of the extent to which even the worst of today's television programming is a reflection of the sort of industry which creates it and the sort of society which demands it...
And then I realized you just meant the screen would have a lot of glare. Man, that's disappointing.
Star Wars...girlfriend? what?
M - O - R - O - N.
Moron...
- The Secret Society of Anonymous Cowards -
Like what? C# the Hut?
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
My luck I would be enjoying a porno, then turn off the tv. And in the reflection see my girlfriend standing behind me.
Josh
....unless it runs Windows
Actually, when you read the article it sounds like a better idea than you make it out to be... People can watch TV in the morning while brushing their teeth or shaving! What a great idea! Now I can watch the news and slice half my face of at the same time! Just imagine how much longer it's going to take your SO to finish up in the bathroom now!
"Are you almost done dear?"
"Shh. It's Oprah. I never floss during Oprah!"
Joking aside, I can see these being heartily adopted by the hotel industry. Now they can offer you PPV pornos while you're on the toilet! Just imagine the potential for comdom adds in public washrooms...
The only show on is about this fat bald guy who stares at the camera. All he does all day is masturbate and eat corn chips. Really weird show.
That character from Episode 1.0 is scary, you know, .jar .jar /bin
"I think this line is mostly filler"
This came out a year ago...and a two years before that I found my Palm could do the same thing.... You people are so behind the curve :)
Just plug any TV into a camera placed directly above the screen, then flop the image left to right.
Instant mirror. No reflections.
Plus, you can switch it off when you're feeling extra ugly.
Now I don't even need to turn on the TV to watch the world's most boring reality series...
I'm holding out for the combo television/garbage-disposal, at which point I expect to come home and find the entire unit gone.
Really gives new meaning to the phrase "idiot box"...
My life is so uninteresting that the screen burn in would ruin my TV.
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
We're one step closer now.
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
Helllllllooooo?!? You put it above your *bed*.
No SIG for you!