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Mug Alive is a real ceramic mug with a hidden digital layer. Point your phone at the artwork and the mug comes alive on your screen with an animated experience. No app to download. It looks like an everyday mug until you discover the second world inside it.
created Mug Alive because a printed mug normally has only one life: the image you see on the ceramic.
I wanted to give a physical object a second, hidden life without asking people to install an app or use a headset.
With Mug Alive, you simply point your phone at the artwork and a digital experience appears on your screen. The physical mug stays exactly where it is, but what you see through your phone changes.
My goal was to make augmented reality feel simple, playful and accessible to anyone.
I’d love to know what Product Hunt thinks: is this the kind of interaction you’d like to see built into more everyday objects?
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About Mug Alive on Product Hunt
“A coffee mug that comes alive on your phone”
Mug Alive was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Mug Alive is a real ceramic mug with a hidden digital layer. Point your phone at the artwork and the mug comes alive on your screen with an animated experience. No app to download. It looks like an everyday mug until you discover the second world inside it.
Mug Alive was featured in Coffee (28.3k followers), Augmented Reality (44.8k followers) and Tech (631.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 171.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Mug Alive?
Mug Alive was hunted by Patrick Osinski. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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