Tech Eye: Mirror, mirror on the wall - what time's Baywatch on?

Years of supping gin around burning cars and smoking cigarettes bought from our Kazakh mate down on market have robbed us of our once rugged good looks, and now, sadly, TechEye looks more like a dog that's been chasing parked cars. Once we had the poise and grace of a youthful David Hasselhoff, circa Knight Rider. Now, however, like David, we're more likely to be found crooning German numbers in the local Schnitzel Bar and mumbling about how we're nothing without our robot car.

We tried the botox, though the needles brought up some bad memories from our time spent in Glasgow, which are best left undisturbed. We tried a facelift, but Uncle TechEye's plan with two chains and a forklift didn't have the desired effect. We even tried one of Granny TechEye's infamous home remedies, but our beard has yet to grow back and the smell means that the cat still tries to hump our leg every time we sit still.

But we may finally be able to conquer our inner demons, and a few of our many, many outer ones too, and look back in the mirror thanks to this new offering from Philips. Looking at the picture, you may think that TechEye has changed sexual preference and come over all interior design and is now picking you absolute must-haves from the latest Ikea catalogue. But you would be wrong (our sexual preferences remains resolutely ambiguous) because this is the MiraVision, which is an LCD TV when it's turned on and a mirror when it's turned off. You can make the picture take up all the screen or just a little bit of it, so you can still gaze at your perfectly formed features while watching the Young and the Restless. It comes in a variety of sizes up to 30 inches, and in portrait or landscape shapes. You can even pick the frame. You'd best concentrate on your face if you buy this thing though, because you'll be missing an arm and a leg - the 30-incher will cost you in the region of zł.16,000.