The best way of describing how these work that we have come across is the mirror analogy outlined by Michael Schrage in his book Serious Play: How the world’s best companies simulate to innovate. The mirror is a hypothetical one but imagine how it works. This full length mirror has the power to instantly modify how you look in response to voice commands. You can see how you would look if you lost or gained a few pounds or had an extra session in the gym each week. You could ask it to show you the best and worst case pictures of how you will age or explore what different outfits would look like. What would you ask that mirror and how would its images change how you behave as the real you. (more…)