M⁴ · a magic mirror Provisional patent filed, August 2026

Capture that can't leave without a yes.

M⁴ is a vanity mirror that is also a camera you can trust. It is built for the people who do beauty for a living, so they can share their routines and get paid for them.

Why: every camera in a creator’s life is a one-way door. The moment it sees you, the footage is already somewhere else. M⁴ turns that around. What the mirror sees stays in the mirror until the creator makes a fresh, deliberate choice to go live or share it. That rule is built into the hardware, not left to a setting.

How it works: a mirror with a camera, a light ring and microphones, run from a phone app. There is a shutter you can see, a light wired to the camera so it can’t be live without showing it, and a hold-to-go-live with a countdown. The mirror can wake up a private preview when you sit down. It can never go live on its own.

Consent is the step everything else depends on
◎ Device A mirror with a camera, light and mics
→
↺ Ritual The routine you already do daily
→
⚑ Consent A fresh, deliberate yes
→
◈ Audience Shared on purpose
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◆ Income Paid for the routine, not the reach
Status
Provisional patent filed
August 2026
What
A vanity mirror
that is also a camera you can trust
For
Working beauty pros
stylists, makeup artists, estheticians
Next
A creator pilot
on phones first, before hardware

The brief

The consent design in more detail, the creator and audience side, how it gets built, and the design renders.

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