Don’t get too excited, fans of bizarre cosmetic treatments — that lady at the salon with the crazy shades isn’t getting the whites of her eyes whitened. She’s watching TV.
The Herald reports Mizu, a hair salon in the Back Bay, is offering similarly named but entirely different MyVu personal video displays to its customers to use while they’re getting their hair done. The MyVu display looks like a pair of futuristic sunglasses, but hooks up to an iPod to play video.
Westwood-based Myvu first turned up in MHT in 2006, when it was still called MicroOptical Corp. Last May, the company brought in $3.3 million in funding.
Update: A Life magazine photo shows MyVu’s ancestor, which may be better suited to a neighborhood barbershop, in 1963. Via Gizmodo.
Posted by Brendan Lynch
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