App Turns iPhone 4 into Ad-Serving Mirror
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A new app will turn your iPhone 4 into a mirror, ready to help you apply lipstick or get your hair just right (I’m looking at you, Gadget Lab review supremo Danny Dumas). The combination of a front-facing camera and the hi-res “retina” display turns out to be perfectly for a spot of mobile vanity.
The Lady often borrows my iPod Touch to use the scuffed but still reflective back plate as a mirror. I’m not sure if it’s to touch up her makeup or to just check herself out, but it works. Until now, iPhone owners had to buy apps which promise to turn the handset into a mirror, but do no more than switch off the display, letting you stare at yourself through a screen, darkly.
DLP Mobile’s version, though, is the real thing, piping the video feed live from camera to screen, and even offering color-corrections for ambient light. The app, called Mirror App, will be in the App Store on iPhone 4 launch day, June 24th, with one extra, probably unwelcome feature that your real mirror will never suffer from: it will be serving up iAds.
Who Needs a Mirror When You Have a Cellphone? [NYT]
Photo: DLP Mobile
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