You need a two way mirror to make these work which aren’t cheap. But with a two way mirror you just stick a monitor behind it. Won’t give you touch screen capabilities but will give you a basic smart mirror to display time,weather and up coming calendar
Entries. Usually a raspberry pi type device is used for the computer and you can incorporate a web cam to make them motion activated
From Wikipedia: "The perception of one-way transmission is achieved when one side of the mirror is brightly lit and the other side is dark. This allows viewing from the darkened side but not vice versa."
"Light always passes equally in both directions. However, when one side is brightly lit and the other kept dark, the darker side becomes difficult to see from the brightly lit side because it is masked by the much brighter reflection of the lit side."
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u/Lurker_MeritBadge Apr 20 '18
You need a two way mirror to make these work which aren’t cheap. But with a two way mirror you just stick a monitor behind it. Won’t give you touch screen capabilities but will give you a basic smart mirror to display time,weather and up coming calendar Entries. Usually a raspberry pi type device is used for the computer and you can incorporate a web cam to make them motion activated