As far as smart mirrors go, they’re pretty easy to build by yourself with the help of a Raspberry Pi. But if you ain’t got the smarts and the cash to splurge, a Singapore-based tech startup is offering luxury smart mirrors that’ll fulfil both vanity and internet consumption needs.
Just in time for Christmas, FRED Technologies has launched the Allure — a compact desk mirror/screen designed for “the sophisticated lady who exalts her skincare and makeup regime”, who also wants a digital personal assistant while at it.
Not content with just being a reflective surface for dressing tables, the rose-gold (of course) Allure also displays curated beauty content that lists the latest makeup news, and cosmetic and skincare highlights, while also casting light around the screen/mirror’s rim.
An in-built camera allows for a lipstick simulator that lets users see what they’ll look like with various lipstick colors, and to really hammer in the fact that its a smart mirror for women, the Allure comes with a Flo Period Tracker app that lets users monitor their menstrual cycles.
On top of all that? It can connect to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, as well as link up to Spotify to play tunes from a proclaimed state-of-the-art surround sound system.
“The new Allure is yet another product that we believe will become a much-loved beauty assistant for the discerning consumers,” said FRED Technologies CEO and founder Jonathan Yuan. Read: consumers with way too much money in their hands, because the Allure goes for S$483.
This would be the company’s follow up to its first luxury smart mirror that was launched earlier this year, called… Mirror. That one is a much bigger smart mirror that offers the standard expected capabilities such as voice control, a touch screen, connection to health-trackers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, news feeds, music players, etc, etc.
Apparently, it never fogs up too due to inbuilt temperature and humidity controls, and even sports an air purifier as well. Mirror goes for S$1,210, so if you’re even questioning why anyone would pay that much for a damn mirror, you’re clearly not the target audience.
Check out both smart mirrors on the FRED Technologies site. But if you’d like to find out how to build one yourself for probably less than S$100, check out the instructions below, courtesy of Circuit Breaker.
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