RFID-Powered Mir:ror Ties Physical Objects with Digital World

Violet, a company devoted to building products based on “calm and emotional technologies,” recently unveiled their new Mir:ror device.  The cleanly designed product resembles a USB-powered cup holder, but it’s essentially a simple RFID tag reader paired with some innovative software.  The idea behind Mir:ror is to streamline your physical life by scripting digital events through RFID tagged objects.  For example, you affix one of the provided colorful RFID stamps (called Ztamp:s) to your car keys and after waving it over the Mir:ror pad your computer reads you the traffic report for the morning commute. The slogan is to create an “Internet of Things” and Violet looks to build connections between our material relationships, their site explains further:

Mir:ror is as simple to use as looking in the mirror – it gives access to information or triggers actions with disarming ease: simply place an object near to its surface. Mir:ror is a power conferred upon each of us to easily program the most ordinary of objects. The revolution of the Internet of Things suddenly becomes a simple, obvious, daily reality that’s within anyone’s reach.

Hopefully the bundled software makes the mapping simple, but as a concept it is certainly refreshing.  Violet hopes the Mir:ror will bridge the gap between our digital world and our real one.  The central goal of complete customization is a unique marketing trait and hopefully consumers can remix their life with the $70 bundle.

[via DVICE]