SNAFU said: "I spend way too much time on line. I do not spend that much time in front of the mirror. A silly waste!"
Now, see... That's an interesting comment to me.
I find that I actually DO spend more time in front of a mirror than I realized before thinking about this kind of mirror. I wonder if you do, too?
I found that when I focused on the timing, I 'waste' a lot of time shaving and (because I've inherited my father's bad British teeth) flossing, brushing, and most recently, caring for/cleaning my upper denture and lower partial.
I don't spend that time focused on "me, in the mirror", but I am there, absentmindedly, doing mundane tasks that take up more time than I'd previously thought. Even just blow-drying my hair.
If I had a smart mirror with an app that played short, headline news videos, or the Weather Channel, or played videos (MTV-style) of my iTunes playlists, I would find that useful. If I had something to focus on in the mirror besides myself, I might brush my (6) teeth for longer periods of time (DON"T JUDGE ME!). I might learn something about what's going on in the world while I'm shaving.
If my smart mirror were voice-controlled (as suggested by some of the commenters in the original article), could I create a daily grocery shopping list while I'm shaving?
Call_me_jorge said: "The TV in a mirror was stupid enough, now this is just idiotic. They only time I would ever use social media or electronics in my bathroom, sorry to give TMI, is when I'm on the toilet."
Duh... do you not "get" what you just wrote?