Gizmodo: Digital Foci

Digital Foci Pocket OLED Photo Frames

Brian Lam — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:20:25 EST

The Basics: OLED Picture frames! The 2.8-inch screen has a wrist strap, and works as an alarm clock and calendar. The 1.5-inch version has a keychain. They hold 3000 and 120 photos, and have 10000:1 and 1000:1 contrast ratios, respectively. Rechargeable.
The Catch: The $50 1.5-inch screen form factor is the one I want, but that version is only has a passive matrix screen and a mere 1000:1 contrast ratio (vs 10000:1 of the bigger $99 version). The quality of the OLEDs in these frames is unknown.

Pocket Album Deluxe OLED 2.8 Features:
2.8" (320 x 240) Active Matrix OLED screen with contrast ratio of 10,000: 1.
Holds over 3,000 digital photos with internal flash memory.
Folder structure for organizing photos.
Also works as alarm clock and calendar.
Compact photo viewer with wrist strap.

Pocket Album OLED 1.5 Features:
1.5" Passive Matrix OLED screen with contrast ratio of 1000:1.
Holds approximately 120 digital photos with 32MB internal flash memory.
Portable digital keychain.

Pocket Album OLED Series General Features:
Runs automatic photo slideshows with adjustable time intervals or scrolls photos manually.
Supports random photo playback.
Built-in clock with automatic on/off timer.
Runs on rechargeable battery rechargeable via the included AC adapter or with USB power by connecting it to your computer.
Photo Viewer Software included for converting images from your computer to Pocket Album OLED. The Photo Viewer Software lets you crop and rotate photos you wish to transfer, before automatically resizing them for optimal storage and display on the photo viewer.

Digital Foci Set To Launch 3 New "Image Moments" Digital Frames

Sean Fallon — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:00:33 EST

Digital photo frames might not be the most exciting gadgets on the planet, but they're one of those products everyone can get into —even Grandma. So lets get to the newness, shall we? Digital Foci is set to introduce three new frames at this year's CES. The best of the bunch is definitely the Image Moments 15 with a 15" XGA (1024x768) digital LCD, a high contrast ratio of 700:1, an AV input and an interchangeable frame and mat design. It also features 200MB of storage, USB 2.0 connectivity and a memory card reader that can handle all popular cards.

The other two releases are as follows:

•Image Moments 6: Features 5.7" VGA (640x480) digital LCD with high pixel density of 140 PPI, LED backlight and two-tone, mirror-polished chrome finish.
•Image Moments 8: Features 8" SVGA (800x600) digital LCD with high contrast ratio of 500:1, LED backlight, and interchangeable frame & mat design.

All devices include the same 200MB storage, USB connectivity and reader capability mentioned earlier. The Image Moments 6, 8 and 15 should be available this March for $149, $199 and $399, respectively. [Press Release]

Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite

Charlie White — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:35:02 EDT

Why lug a PC with you everywhere you go, when you can offload your photos onto a Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite? This is one versatile unit, compatible with almost all flash memory cards, a veritable alphabet soup including CF I/II, MD, MMC, SD Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, MS Duo and MS PRO Duo. You can also transfer data to and from it via USB 2.0. Besides storing pictures, it displays images in almost all formats including RAW, and also plays back most types of video and audio.

You may have seen the first version of this, the Picture Porter, back in September of last year, but now Digital Foci has updated this unit, turning its measly 2-inch LCD into a 3.6-inch screen, and offering 40GB ($449) and 80GB ($549) sizes. Available for pre-order now, it ships August 7th. – Charlie White

Product Page [Digital Foci, via Product Dose]

Digital Foci Memory Card Travel Case

Jason Chen — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:26:57 EDT

With all the gadgets you have to carry with you on vacation—cellphone, camera, camcorder, laptop, PDA, GPS—worrying about where you placed that SD the last thing you want to think about. Now you can place them all in one secure location, the Memory Card Travel Case, to make sure they're not lost or damaged in transit.

The case holds "CompactFlash I/II, MD, SM, MMC, SD, miniSD, MS, MS Prod, MS Duo and xD card" formats. It costs $19.95 and is well worth it if you're as prone to losing cards as we are. Plus, the case actually does protect the cards from droppage, which actually isn't a big deal since we've never damaged a card from dropping it. – Jason Chen

Digital Foci's Memory Card Travel Case: Good Idea! [VoIP & Gadgets Blog via Gadgetell]

Media Buddy Stores Lots of Pics

tgrumet — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:19:55 EST

If you are looking to drop some cash on a device that stores images, check out Digital Foci's Media Buddy, a hard disc drive that lets you copy and store photos from a memory card without any wires. The backlit LCD shows text only, so you can't view any pics (but we all know how useful it is to see that CIMG0351.JPG has been transferred). The Buddy comes in 30GB, 40GB, 60GB or 80GB storage capacities which should be plenty of space. The company is touting it as a better solution to buying more memory cards. If you're on holiday and want to take tons of photos, just take your Media Buddy with you, download your images from a full card, and keep snapping. Given the price of most memory cards, $229 for the starting price of this portable drive is not a bad deal. Works with CF I/II, MD, SM, xD-Picture Card, MMC, SD Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, MS Duo, and MS PRO Duo. Oh, and it also works as an MP3 player. Comes in Powder Blue, Arctic Silver, and Pearl Gray.

Digital Foci Portable Digital Photo Storage [Bios Magazine]

Pricing for Digital Foci Media Buddy [Digital Foci]