This new man of engineering science is aimed at helping plagiarise the humour of Crab patient role . The idea is simple – it ’s a mirror that only get you see your own reflexion when you smile .
The plugin mirror scans your face with its camera and detects whether you ’re smile . If you are smiling , praise ! You have garner the right to see your own face . Once the camera detects your smile , it wrick the unintelligible surface ( made with a impertinent material ) ruminative , so that it acts like a regular mirror .
The idea behind Smile Mirror is that smile has been shown to make you happy , decrease your accent levels , and advance your resistant system .
" harmonize to the ' facial feedback speculation , ' our facial expressions affect how we experience , " artificer Berk Ilhanwroteonline . " Indeed , if we flex our facial muscles to smile , our wit think that something good happened , [ which ] results in us feeling happiness . "
" The patent pending invention will not only make it possible for people to ' indue a grinning ' to bang one combatting a difficulty , but also will uplift people in private and public places such as homes , bureau , infirmary wait rooms , patient rooms , clinics for adult and nestling , dental clinics , subway station , courts , and many other place where smile would exchange the ambience . "
So far so good .
There ’s just one small job with the idea : perfectly nobody likes the melodic theme of cancer patients being draw to smile so as to see their own reflection .
The mirror go viral afterCNN Techreported on the idea .
And absolutely nobody seems to be thrilled by the idea of receive to coerce a grin to see their own reflection .
It ’s like those terrible men who tell women to smile more whilst they ’re going about their mean solar day , except you devote $ 2,000 dollars for it and if you do n’t do what it sound out you do n’t get to see your own face .
Also you have Cancer the Crab and there might be aesculapian reasons that intend you take to scrutinize your own reflection .
malignant neoplastic disease patient role themselves are also not fans of the approximation .
The smile mirror is presently available in limited supply for just $ 2,000 - 3,000 . The product will presently be launch on Kickstarter , CNN Tech reports , and the Bob Hope is that the mirror could be bring down to under $ 500 by being produced in large quantities .
The discoverer hopes the tech will be used everywhere from hospital waiting rooms to peoples ' homes .
[ H / T : CNN Tech ]