Google is known for making people lives easier with its new tech gadgets each different and definitely an upgraded variant of its previous making. Marking another milestone in its journey, another software engineer from Google has now officially developed a brand new Smart Mirror prototype for personal usage that allows him to look at all the major headlines of the day, weather forecasts, time and date what not all with no extra effort.
Max Braun taking inspiration from sci-fi movies and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie The 6th Day designed his own 'Smart Mirror' using a two-way mirror, display panel, controller board and several other components. It allows him to call anyone on data using Google-Now card also giving him the right to use his own voice to search for any specific information. When asked about future plans, he said that he now plans to add traffic updates, daily reminders, among other widgets and improving his voice-search functionality for giving a more precise info.
The working methodology of the mirror is quite straightforward as it uses simple Android apps like TextClock for displaying date and time, Forecast app for the weather and the Associated Press app for giving the latest news. The smart mirror runs on Google’s Android and uses Amazon’s Fire TV stick to run the user interface and has also experimented with Chromecast and Nexus devices before putting the prototype. His official statement on this achievement read "The idea is that you don’t need to interact with this UI,” he wrote. Instead, it updates automatically and there’s an open-ended voice search interface for anything else."
This is not the first time users are being showcased such prototype as developers around the globe are collaborating online from a quite long time to get a fine smart mirror prototype with no flaws and are constantly working on finding alternate ways to connect wires, cables, and microcomputers all together to develop many more such prototypes in future.