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Talking Mirror, Pirate Skull Security System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the makers-of-the-batcave dept.

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."

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  1. How much demand is there for pirate themed homes? by liuyunn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For "very expensive" costs who would actually go an install this toy like system in their home? I mean I can imagine people doing it just for laughs but how much of this can you take day after day. Long after "the wow effect" wears off wouldn't you rather have an attractive blond animatronic over some bonehead?

  2. The Voice! by Yogurtron · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not only is it cool, Basil's voice is Tony Jay! Freaking Megabyte from Reboot!

    (or at least that's how it sounds)

    Sry for the fanboy thing, just... so freakign cool, now if only they had Megs as the avatar too, he was always trying to take over mainframe, taking over a house isn't a bad start. Make the Mirror look like a vid-window too, heh.

  3. Superstitious Nuts by Tekoneiric · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have a friend that lost her black polydactyl cat when some nuts thought it was a witch cat and killed it. A talking mirror might just make people like that try to burn your house down with you in it.

    I would love to have one, I would just not show it to unstable nut cases. It kind of reminds me of the technomages from Babylon 5.

    --
    *It's not what you can do for the Dark Side but what the Dark Side can do for you!*
  4. our haunted house, self built by conn3x · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't help but to post about a haunted house my friends and i have been building for years, using speakers, a printer port, some motion detectors, some pneumatic valves, a java proggy to listen to the printer port fed by xml, and some optoisolated triacs.
    if you want to check it out, its here
    http://www.bapudi.com/yabbse/index.php?board=7
    the only thing I can't figure out is how they'd integrate PAL into the screen, anyone?

  5. DIY mirror? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Would it be possible to do this yourself using a "2 way" type mirror with an lcd monitor behind it?
    When the lcd backlight is turned on,the image is visable, otherwise you would see your own reflection. Could it be that simple?