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Mir:ror the RFID reader that gives power to your Objects

  • Recognizes objects with included RFID tags (Ztamp:s) and triggers programmed actions
  • Launches all kind of applications and media or connects you to any website
  • Actions easily programmable from the Applications directory on violet.net
  • Controls iTunes, Skype, sends e-mail, updates your status on social networks and much much more
  • Connection to a Mac or a PC via a simple USB port
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At last! Your Things step through the Mirror…

8:40 am – you're getting ready to leave home. On your desk, next to your computer, a halo of light is quietly pulsating. You swiftly flash your car keys at this mysterious device. A voice speaks out: "today, rain 14°C". The voice continues: "you will get there in 15 minutes". Your computer screen displays an image from the webcam located along the route you're planning to travel, while the voice reads out your horoscope for the day. At the same moment, your friends can see your social network profile update to "It's 8:40, I'm leaving the house". At the office, your favourite colleague receives an email to say that you won't be long. And finally, just as you walk through the door, your computer locks.

You personally "scripted" this morning's scenario: you decided to give your car keys all these powers, because the time you pick them up signals the fact you're soon going to leave the house.

What if you could obtain information, access services, communicate with the world, play or have fun just by showing things to a mirror, a Mir:ror which, as if by magic, could make all your everyday objects come alive, and connect them to the Internet's endless wealth of possibilities?

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.

Enter the Mir:ror.

* Violet is not a content provider. We only transmit information already available on the Internet in standard exchange formats (RSS…) and ensure they are converted into formats compatible with the use of your objects. Users are responsible for ascertaining that the type of information they need is available on the Internet, in an open format. Violet can therefore not guarantee that the sample scenarios presented here are possible from everywhere and for all users, even Italians.

Features

Technical specs

  • Launches files on your computer
  • Connects to websites
  • Plays videos, photos, music
  • Text-to-speech playback of news from your websites (RSS feeds)
  • Launches Podcasts over the Internet
  • Launches Internet radios
  • Sends e-mail messages with variable content
  • Sends spoken messages
  • Plays Weather, Markets, Air Quality info
  • Counts, records and gives reminders of an object's recent use
  • Locks your PC, activates the screensaver
  • Posts updates on Twitter with variable content
  • Receives e-mail and message through the object
  • Sends detection data to external websites through a URL
  • Reads out books (books sold separately)
  • Launches and controls iTunes
  • Launches Skype and makes calls

Technical details

  • Permanent connection
  • Works with Violet Ztamp:s and any RFID tag compliant with ISO 14443 A or B standards
  • Diameter: 10.3 cm. Height: 1.4 cm. Weight: 90g
  • USB 2.0 connector
  • 3 colour LEDS to dynamically express information
  • Loudspeaker (buzzer)
  • Movement detector to activate standby mode
  • Software downloaded from the Web during setup
  • Services are interoperable with other Violet objects

System Requirements

  • Permanent broadband Internet connection
  • Computer : Mac OS X or PC under Windows XP/Vista or Linux

Warranty and Support

  • 1 year warranty, repair and replacement
  • Technical support

Easy as a mirror

Because it's the easiest, most intuitive interface. Okay, so you've learnt how to type on a keyboard, to click and double-click an icon, to touch an icon with your finger… Mir:ror is still the world's easiest interface – a two year-old can use it. Can you think of any object that's easier to use than a mirror?

In the Object itself

Because every object should hold, deliver and use the information we need when we use it. Do you still scribble new phone numbers in a paper diary, separate from your phone?

In the right place, at the right time

Because information should be contextual. In the same way that you stick Post-it notes in the place where you need them, and not in some centralised point in the room, Ztamps deliver the right info, at the right place, at the right time.

Personalization

Because the on-line world has made us take personalization, information storage and virtual worlds for granted. Why not extend this to other stuff around us?

Learn and master

Because RFID technologies should be available to anyone, and not just industries, retailers and institutions. Mir:ror provides the tools and empowers each one of us to easily understand, master, control and create this whole new world of RFID chips.

Invent

Because the Internet of Things is going to be invented collectively by all its users, just like the now-familiar Internet of Computers was in its time. Mir:ror gives each one of us the power to invent the uses and life that goes with it.

We're building the Internet of Things. Be Part of the Story.