A look behind Accenture's "persuasive mirror"
There's been a lot of buzz on Accenture's "persuasive mirror" — an electronic mirror that digitally morphs your image to encourage you to make lifestyle changes — but the folks at New Scientist trumped us all and actually got a look at it. Turns out the mirror builds a lifestyle profile based on feeds from cameras mounted around your home. Software can tag your habits and feed data to the mirror, allowing it to show you, say, as a dissolute wreck if you've been hitting the bottle a little too much. Whether the trade-off in privacy (not to mention the inevitable cost) is worth it to anyone remains to be seen; we can't help but assume that this is one of those "home of the future" proof-of-concept projects that journalists will groove over for years, but which will never actually make it into any homes.
[Via Near Near Future]
