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Talking Mirror, Pirate Skull Security System
junger writes "Themeaddicts, owned by a Hollywood animatronics guru famous for doing the T-rex in Jurassic Park, has created a home security system with a talking mirror (complete with floating head), talking pirate skull, and talking toucan. It informs the homeowner of things like a car coming up the driveway or the jacuzzi reaching the right temperature, and it turns into a surveillance camera."
"There's someone prettier than you walking up the driveway, preparing poisoned apple now..."
Task Mangler
Murray? Is that you?
Fellowship 9/11
Mirror, mirror am I stoned?
Your image is now goatse.cx guy,
My home security must be pwn3d
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
That reminds me of James Earl Jones, in "Field of Dreams"
"Oh, my God, you're from the Sixties! Out! Back to the Sixties! Get back! There's no place for you here in the future! Get back while you still can!"
Tell me that mirror is not drug inspired.
Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
It turns into a surveillance camera as the jacuzzi reaches the right temperature?.. o, I want that! Can I take screen caps?
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
Although you know it doesn't run on linux. Knowing slashdot, if it ran on linux it would say so in the title of the article or at least in the description.
This being slashdot you're more likely to see: To run Windows you'll need a bigger mirror.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I'd like to see one with the Half-Life 2 G-man's face.
"Intruder in the driveway. The catapult is standing by. It's time to choose..."
"Made up/misattributed quote that makes me look smart. I am on
...you see the headline "Talking Mirror, Pirate Skull Security System" and immediately think it's about a filesharing mirror site that talks.
Unfortunately, the thing fails to notify you of slashdotting...unless it screams in pain O_o
Master, you site has been linked on slashdooooAAAAAAAAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHH KIIILLL MEEE AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHH OH THE PAIIINN
...quick hide ye movies, the dreaded RIAA have pulled up broadside!
It'll be interesting, though, to see this in mass production. All of the sudden, Joe Average and his generic home alarm will be rocketed forward into the 21st century. Suddenly, the "Home of the Future" will have a toe-hold with the Late Adopter market segment.
How cool would it be when AI technology progresses to a point to interface with something like this? All of the sudden, the kid-sitting industry will taper off. Of course, we'll need to avoid any HAL like behavior.
Husband: "Open the car-bay door, HAL."
HAL: "I'm sorry Dave, I cannot do that..."
Wife: "I told you not to hire that cheap garage door repairman... And stop calling it a car-bay."
Husband: "I'll go get the Yellow Pages."
I'd rather it talk to someone who breaks in. I mean if I walked into some guy's house looking for something to gank and all of a sudden the mirror was like "What are you doing here?" I think I'd be gone FAST.
Does it turn into a surveillance camera only after the jacuzzi is at the right temperature? That filthy, filthy man!
Was it in return of the Jedi where Luke talks to the Droid Eye at the entry door of Jabba's palace? Now that I have a house I'm really tempted to do that. A cheap USB webcam, some servo motors, a speaker... Will be fun to mess with unwelcome visitors.
I keep remembering a local incident where an alarm in a bar/club went off at 0500 on a Sunday, well after closing time. Some deputy sheriffs showed up and found a door open so they searched the building. As one of them came around a corner he encountered a wooden indian statue, complete with raised tomahawk, and promptly shot it twice (good grouping too right in the chest).
The other thought that comes to mind is when I installed my own alarm system at home. Everything was wired and worked OK, then the voice module that was on backorder showed up. I installed that without a hitch and went to test the system. The response came out: "fuego! fuego! feugo!" for the fire alarm and something about "la policia" on the burglar portions. I spent the next hour trying all the jumper settings one by one since that page wasn't in the manual....of course english was all pins open, the last one I tried.
No, no, no. Windows likes to break stuff so running it on a mirror would be really stupid.