Google Engineers are very much ahead then their time and

this thing has again proven by Max Braun, an engineer at Google who believe in

himself and took it upon himself to build

a smart mirror of his own rather depending upon other big companies.



The mirror displays information such as the time, weather

forecast, and latest news headlines in a clean, minimalist UI. It’s still a

work in progress, and Braun is still experimenting with adding other things

like traffic conditions and reminders. The display itself isn’t interactive,

but that’s not really the point: Braun says the idea is for the mirror to

automatically pull relevant data in the same way that Google Now does. For

anything else, there’s always voice search.

According to Braun, he wasn’t desperate to create one, but

he built one because he had the know-how on how to make it work. He wanted to

create a bathroom mirror which could function “like the future promised in

movies.”



(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The setup is surprisingly simple: aside from a fancy two-way

mirror, it’s just a regular display, a controller board, a power button, and a

Fire Stick. The mirror itself is the most expensive part (depending upon how large the mirror is)

The UI Braun used for his smart mirror has some hundred

lines of code using Android APIs. To avoid distraction, the text is kept

monochrome, and to run the UI, he has used devices such as Amazon’s Fire TV as

well as Google’s Nexus Player and Chromecast as hardware. After setting up

everything, the mirror shows different pieces of information right from time

and date to weather forecast and news headlines.

Well, Braun all we can

say that it’s one of the best-looking ones we’ve seen yet, and I

wouldn’t mind having one myself and nor our readers too.