I have one of these. It is literally the initial setup screen and it needs internet because all of the workouts are online and many are live. If you don’t want to use it for workouts just turn it off or ignore the message and it will go back to being a mirror in a few minutes.
I am so lost here. Are you suggesting that many people buy mirrors linked to the internet these days so that they can mimic figures displayed on that mirror in order to get their physical exercise in? Does the “mirror” need to be plugged in constantly(electricity/internet)? Is it even a mirror, or is it really just a shiny screen with a camera?
No bad faith intended here. I’d love for you to give me the name of the product - it just seems so odd to me.
This “mirror” is actually a big screen. What the reflection is for is so that you observe yourself performing actions, like you would do at the gym. What the screen is for is essentially your own personal trainer in your home. There are thousands of classes/sessions available for various exercises. It does have a web cam as well so you can have an actual personal trainer correct your form, but I have never used that part of it. Honestly it is pretty good, just priced too high for the monthly fees ($45).
Thanks for sharing! It just goes to show how different daily lives can be. Not in my wildest dreams would I get that in my house. But again, no bad faith here - to each their own.
Probs to Peloton though for diversifying their product base I guess. Home fitness as a service seems to still have some growth potential in it even after COVID is over.
I hate the future. We were promised hoverboards and instead we have this. Fuck the future.
Who’s the dumbass? The person who makes the shitty mirror, or the person who bought the inevitably extremely shitty mirror?
I don’t understand the problem, You’ve got a perfectly well working product, just without the Internet access. If you don’t want to connect it to use the advanced features, just unplug it and use the mirror in the way you like.
Nobody bought this mirror accidentally for $1000. They bought it for the specific workout shit it does around correcting your form.
You people are so God damned smart and judgemental
You can see how incredibly easy it is to spread disinformation, counting on the overwhelming information bombardment to do no fact-checking and have us act - or not act at all - against our own best interests. By which I mean this sort of thing:
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe, i ReAd A sTrOnGLy WoRdEd TwEeT oNcE aBoUt iT!
Some people enjoy having some unique tech are they wrong to be upset when the product they paid for doesn’t work? It’s dumb that the error takes up the entire mirror so by sharing posts like this on social media it encourages the makers to fix this flaw by using public pressure.
Who said it doesn’t work? It’s telling you to connect to WiFi. If you wanted to use the smart features, you don’t care if it’s blocking the mirror because the point of this device is not the mirror.
Why does a mirror need a computer exactly?
Magic mirrors are so cool, I’ve been wanting to build one for ever since first seeing people make them on hackaday like 7 years ago.
It’s on my ‘one day I’ll do this’ project list’.
Theres a few really cool potential uses for these, but the tech isnt quite there yet.
Imagine seeing a jacket and like “Yeah it looks good on the professional model under ideal lighting conditions, but what about on me and what size would I need?” So you jump on your smart scales that also know your height, stand in front of the mirror and it extrapolates your measurements and shows you exactly what you would look like wearing a large.
Also some cool stuff going on with digital personal trainers that monitor your form in real time.
The downside to all this “Cool” is that its hideously expensive and almost guaranteed to be subscription but… still cool in theory.
While also selling you technology you don’t need that will spy on you in your home and scan your network for every device, open file share, and anything that has data it can harvest and share back to its corporate overlords, so they can sell it to Facebook and Google, along with any nudes it captures (because you know people will set them up in private spaces).
Edit: This particular one is apparently a workout product, which I’m unfamiliar with. I guess that’s … fine? (I don’t get how it’s functionally different than a laptop on a a table if you’ve already got mirrors, but I mean… whatever.) I was under the impression this was a smart mirror used to virtually try on clothes. My comments about data exfiltration and spying (just maybe not nudes) still stand.
Just because its vapid stupid consumer privacy invading bullshit doesnt mean the tech isnt cool or interesting.
Full body shots while trying out outfits. Saves quite a bit of hassle when doing wardrobes or getting a large stitch fix. Workout form in this case. Highly useful. Expensive though.
Well I doubt you have weight lifted seriously or any sport/exercise, and I don’t mean that against you. Most aren’t. Having to get teammates and partners to take video of your form is common and a pain in the ass at times.
It’s one thing to keep in shape and not care about the more competitive end. But in that realm people spend thousands of dollars at smaller gyms and groups getting that kind of feedback.
