US inventor creates his own homemade 'smart mirror'

A US inventor has posted video of his own smart-mirror that functions via voice commands.

Seattle-based inventor Evan Cohen posted the clip to YouTube on October 20 giving an update on how his invention was progressing after starting to work on the project just last month.

Mr Cohen shows how the mirror operates by turning it on with his voice commands, before getting it to display maps of Seattle and Berkley in California before he gets it to adjust the lights and the colour they emit in his room.

"I started this project back in September and have been hacking things together in some of my spare time," Mr Cohen wrote.

"I am quite pleased about how it is coming along and thought it would be cool to post a short video showing off some of it's functionality.

"I'm having a ton of fun with this, but there are still quite a few issues to iron out."

Mr Cohen is running the tiny Raspberry Pi computer with a USB microphone as the hardware powering the monitor behind a one-way mirror to create the smart mirror.