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Re: mr-mem post# 78601

Sunday, 05/02/2021 7:34:56 AM

Sunday, May 02, 2021 7:34:56 AM

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It's probably not UL certification that's the hold-up, but rather the FCC certification of the RF (wireless) nature of the mirror.

Digging back through quarterly transcripts, back in Nov. 2017, Stewart talked about the new device, saying he had the prototype right in front of him, wished he could show it. Said they had been working on it for a year.

The original design had an 8 inch Android 9 tablet, that docked with the mirror in the back. They got an FCC certificate for it on December 19, 2019.

https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/2ABNT-CAP001M

Reading through it, they intended to have different colors of the tablet, which tells me they thought about selling the tablet alone by itself, and also with the docking mirror/TV.

So, started in 2016, teased in 2017, launched in January 2019 at CES, FCC certified December 2019, re-launched in Janurary 2020 at CES.

And then ditched sometime around the start of 2021. None sold to the public.

It's a good thing. From what I can see, the product would have been a flop.

Now we wait to see the specifications of the new mirror design. They've moved away from the docking tablet design, potentially in part to move the RF antenna to the front of the device.

The old design would have had bad wifi performance; mirrored glass is a pretty good blocker of wifi signals.