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NYT Working On 'Magic Mirror' For Bathroom Surfing

Posted by Soulskill on from the in-case-you-didn't-have-enough-webcams-by-your-toilet dept.

MrSeb writes "If the New York Times Research & Development Lab has its wicked way, you will soon be able to stop taking your mobile computer of choice into the bathroom — and use a 'magic mirror' instead. On average we spend an hour in the bathroom every day, and the magic mirror — which is built from a 'data-bearing' mirror, Microsoft Kinect, and a healthy dollop of ingenuity — is designed to capitalize on that time by letting you surf the web and increase the New York Times' advertising revenue."

2 of 138 comments (clear)

  1. An hour? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Women might spend an hour a day in the bathroom, but what straight man does? 10 mins shower, 2 mins brushing teeth, 5 mins shaving and maybe 5 mins taking a crap.

  2. Invconvenient position by denshao2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many of us have a mirror positioned to watch us use the toilet?