Sure a white picket fence is part of the American dream but it’s so much cooler to have this fence of mirrors surrounding your house. It turns the boundaries of your yard invisible. It changes colors with the seasons. And it is gleaming fun to look at.
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Have you ever been hesitant to over-pack a vehicle with luggage or passengers because it would obscure the sightline for your rearview mirror? Nissan’s Smart rearview mirror solves that problem by alternately displaying a live video feed from a camera mounted on the back of the vehicle.
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It’s much easier for a telescope to see deep into the universe when it doesn’t have to peer through the Earth’s atmosphere, but getting them into space is expensive. There is a much cheaper solution, though, as researchers have actually found a way to make incredibly light mirrors using lasers and polystyrene—aka styrofoam—beads.
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Promising to revolutionize the amusement park funhouse as we know it, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Hirose-Tanikawa lab have created a remarkable mirror that does more than just make someone look overly thin or tall. It’s actually able to change the emotion on someone’s face, replacing a frown with a smile, or anger with glee.
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Judging by the long lines that have snaked around Chelsea’s David Zwirner gallery this week, it seems that New York has found its next big blockbuster art installation: I Who Have Arrived in Heaven, a spectacular and intense show by 84-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama—we got a chance to film inside.
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There’s a lot of lore about what we see in mirrors, or what happens if we go through the looking glass. And this vaguely sinister app offers some control of the situation. Unsigned Mirror is an openFrameworks Windows and Mac app written by the art and technology group Unsigned Long Long. It creates slit-scan craziness when you drag an image into the program and feed it through the "mirror". You can also use your webcam for source images. While putting an image through the mirror, you can rotate the scene in 3d and then save as a new image file. Sort of makes you want to bring the word "groovy" back, doesn’t it? I said sort of. [Creative Applications]
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If everyone in your home is constantly jockeying for position at the bathroom mirror as they get ready for the day, you might want to consider an upgrade to this clever alternative dubbed the mirror #180 by its creators at halb/halb. What makes it special is a split down the middle with each side angled slightly away from each other, giving two people standing next to each other private views of their own reflections.
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There’s not a single soul in the world who doesn’t love it when they get to see the endless world that appears when you’re in a room of mirrors. I remember trying to count as a kid how many versions of myself I could see. But what would happen if you were in a perfect mirror sphere? Vsauce, as only he can, explains and breaks down the wonderful science behind mirrors in the video above. [Vsauce]
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Joe Doucet’s circular mirror isn’t water-logged for nothing. He designed it as a reminder of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in lower Manhattan (where his studio is) and generally on the east coast.
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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. More »
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