Scry

Scry

The Universal Mirror

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• Minimalist but powerful user interface

• Has many features, but maintains functionality of mirror

• Goal is to incorporate natural human movements

• Takes advantage of touchscreen interface

• First-time setup

• The first step here is to choose a language.

• When the user clicks a language, a brightness appears around it to show it's been clicked. 

• Mirror requires active internet connection for most features

• Can also physically connect mirror to local connection/storage

• Uses keyboard to input password: more reliable and private than using voice

• Choosing date and time can be done manually

• Can also be done by turning on location services (if connected to wi-fi, makes the process much easier)

• Uses keyboard to input date and time in the given format

• System uses "swipe password" like smartphones

• High security but simple functionality

• Avoids arduous work like typing in a password each time

• As established before, users sign in with a swipe

• If the user swipes wrongly, they have a chance to recover their account

• A guest, with the bottom icon, can make a new account if they do not have a registered profile and swipe

• Brightness, color can be customized for lights

• Widgets/apps/entire display can be backlit

• System settings saved per user

• Can access different important, general settings through an unobstructive, side-screen display

System features divided into three categories: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary

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• Gets data for registered social media and other of user from internet connection

• Has personal preferences, like brightness and sound level, stored in settings

• User interface allows scrolling and manual selection

• Automatically fills with data if connected to user's schedule and calendar apps elsewhere

• Set personal events and pipe to scrolling feed

• User data can be input manually or fed through device

• Potential applications: visual displays, target tracker, etc.

• Scale displays current weight and weight differences across time

• User can access favorite news sites

• User can click from news sites to see a full render of that particular article

• Minimizable news feed

• News feeds can be customized by user

• Can create unique channels from different sources

• Ticker feeds data in realtime when pinned

• Uses screen as a canvas

• Fun to play with, can also be used as a whiteboard and be instructive (mirrors don't always have to be in the bathroom)

• With camera functionality could have more features

• Sticky notes tool

• Create notes and pin to any area of mirror

• Add little reminders, customize with quotes

• Mirror doubles as a screen

• Display backgrounds with custom lighting

• User can select music they have synced with the mirror

• Can adjust sound

• Video and music player

• Can pipe from internet or local storage

• Use mirror as screen to control playback

• User can access social media feed, like Facebook

• Check messages and scroll through news

Tertiary Applications

• Display settings can be changed by the mirror settings

• App settings up to third party

• Can be pinned by user to home screen

• Can be set to update in realtime

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Other possible third-party apps:
Food delivery (GrubHub, Dominoes, etc.)

Transportation (Uber, Lyft)

Tickets (Fandango, etc)

Fashion/cosmetic apps