Week 1

Brainstorming

These are the two main ideas we are considering for our capstone project. Our first choice is the Smart Mirror as long as it is approved.

Idea #1: Smart Mirror

Our idea is to create a smart mirror, capable of displaying useful information to the user. We want to incorporate a computer vision element into the software, enabling the mirror to be customizable per user based on a facial recognition profile.

Another cool feature would be to create a smart phone app that can be used to interact with the mirror. A user could upload their preferred mirror layout, or even have their own to-do list sync up with the mirror display.

Idea #2: Real-time translator

Create a translator device that is capable of listening to speech in one language, and translating it to another language to playback in the user’s ear. This would be a more hardware oriented project than our first idea. Utilizing Google Speech and Google Translate API’s, we could focus on the hardware and create a device capable of performing real-time translation to the user. There are some products on the market but this seems like a relatively new commercialized idea, so it would be a fun concept to explore.