Gizmodo: digital photo frame

3.5-Inch Digital Photo Frame from HP Small but Chic

AddyDugdale — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:45:00 EDT

There's been a slew of Hewlett Packard products over the past few days and, although this digital picture frame is probably the smallest of the bunch, it's pretty damn cute. Available in Europe at the moment, the frame has QGVA resolution, is SD-, SDHC- and MMC-compatible, can hold up to 45 pictures, and costs $76. Like I said, cute. [CNET Asia]

Asus Photo Frame Lets You Use It As a Secondary Display

AddyDugdale — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:40:00 EDT

The UFOTO UF735, a digital photo frame from Asus, has another use than just holiday snaps: its sub-display function lets you hook it up to your computer and use it as a secondary display. The seven-inch hi-res (800 x 480) screen has 128MB of internal memory, a USB 2.0 port and earphone jack, and supports CF/SD/MMC/MS/xD memory cars and USB Flash Drive. Available in pink, blue and silver, there's no indication on pricing or availability just yet. [Akihbara News]

Photowatch: Strap-On Digital Picture Frame and Wristwatch

Kit Eaton — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:55:20 EDT

A half-way house between a digital watch and those crazy do-it-all multimedia watches, the digital photo frame watch may actually appeal to more people. The built-in memory can store 60 photos and it can superimpose the time in analog or digital format over the top. And that's all it does: simple. It charges through USB, lasting about 8 hours —its main drawback, perhaps— and is Mac and PC compatible. In leather and stainless steel, it'll set you back $99.95. [EverythingUSB]

Polaroid Instant Digital Picture Frame Is the Only Frame I Want

Jesus Diaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:00:17 EST

The Polaroid instant digital picture frame is just that, a digital screen in the shape and size of an old Polaroid instant photo (my favorite.) It may not seem as ingenious as the Digital Jewel Box, but we can't resist its retro charm, and the possibility of writing messages on its dry erase surface. Not to talk about pinning them to a cork board or the way it shows the images themselves.

Once you put the flash memory card in you can select to way to show your photos. The standard one works like any other picture frame. The classic one, however, is the one that I would be using: using this the photos fade from white to the picture in one minute, imitating the real Polaroid instant photo process.

Sadly, it's just a concept, but Polaroid should get to work on this as soon as possible instead of doing crappy me-too picture frames and other assorted digital stuff. [Ironic Sans via Gizmodo ES]

Telepresence Frame: A Black Box for Life Support Patients

Benny Goldman — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:55:03 EST

Someone finally found a good use for a digital picture frame. The Telepresence Frame by Revital Cohen displays a live-feed of a patient's vital stats for his or her entire family to see. Cohen, an artist studying the increasing relationship between humans and machines, shows through the frame that a patient on life support is made up of more than flesh and bones, and has become one with the gadgets surrounding them. That's nice and all, but what happens when the life support ends is downright freaky.

When the machines can no longer keep the patient alive, the stats on the frame flatline, just like you see on TV. However, the death of the patient does not bring with it the death of the frame; everything has been recorded on a black box, which rewinds to the beginning and plays the patient's life, on a loop. Now your family can sit around the fireplace, stare at the frame, and recount the good old days. "Oh look! That's when Timmy's blood pressure was 120 over 80! And he was still breathing! I miss that day."

Cohen has made a video of some of these patients describing what their machine-assisted life is like, and you can see a clip below. Just remember, before you complain that a minute of your time was wasted, these people are on freakin' life support.[Interactions via WMMNA]

Prinics' Digital Photo Frame Has Onboard Printer, Speakers, Plays 'Baby Got Back'

Jason Chen — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:00:31 EST

What's better than a digital photo frame that takes in SD, MS, MMC and XD cards to plaster your loved ones on an 8-inch LCD? One that also includes a photo printer on board. The back of this PhotoBox has a 300x300dpi printer, which shoots out snaps at a rate of 1 every 42 seconds. As an especially tacked-on bonus, there are speakers on the back that play back WMA audio (or the audio from AVI files). Available now for an unspecified amount of Korean Won.

GE Photo Phone Matches Faces to Voices With Caller ID

hook — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:01:19 EST

I got a sneek peak at GE's upcoming phone line, including the slick Photo Phone that will be introduced at CES2008. The phone combines a traditional cordless phone with a 7-inch digital photo frame, and includes picture caller ID. The feature, which is commonly found on cellphones, allows you to assign a picture to a phone number so that you'll not only see the caller's number, but also their face.

When you're not in a call, the Photo Phone functions as a typical digital photo frame, with enough internal flash memory to store 20 images. The Photo Phone also accepts most memory cards, and packs in a USB port so you can transfer snapshots from your computer. The GE hybrid device will be available with black or silver frames in March 2008 and is expected to retail for $140. [GE]

Ovoid Digital Photo Frame is Not Exactly Excellent

Charlie White — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:23:10 EST

You can tell digital photo frames are getting to be a commodity item when designers go far afield, even creating egg-shaped units to adorn the desktops of novelty-crazed grandmas and their minions. But eggs, yeah, chicks like them, don't they? That notwithstanding, this one has such a tiny screen you almost need a microscope to see it—a 1.5-inch color display on which to show your JPEG and BMP photos.

Since it holds low-res 128x128 pixel images, its 8MB of built-in flash memory might go a long way if you're one who doesn't mind cropping, resizing and editing pictures. When you get tired of looking at those postage-stamp-sized pics, you can always use this thing as a clock. No price was attached to this egg-shaped picture player just yet.

Just feel lucky I didn't use the puns that initially popped into my head for use in this post's headline, having something to do with the words exactly and excellent. [Cool Sources, via 7 Gadgets]

Parrot DF7700 MMS Digital Photo Frame Shows Pics from Cellphones

Charlie White — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:26:47 EDT

Here's one more way to send photos to a digital photo frame: The Parrot DF7700 thinks it's a cellphone—it even has its own phone number—and you can send it pics in an MMS message from any other cellphone. Its 7-inch frame (a similar 7" Bluetooth-friendly frame is pictured here) is big enough to show you just how bad that camera is in your cellphone, and that's not even saying anything about the situations that might be depicted in such photos sent from afar. Like other Parrot frames, in addition to letting you input photos in the conventional method via memory card, this one is chameleon-like, shipping with a leather frame but letting you swap that out for any of its other optional finishes. Pricing wasn't announced, but the DF770 will be available in the U.S. by the end of this year. [Yahoo]

Mustek PF-A1020BC Frame Comes With Changeable Faceplates

kevinhall2 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:00:00 EDT

If all digital photo frames are starting to look alike, try this Mustek PF-A1020BC with its big 10-inch LCD and swappable frames, coming with silver, "frosted white," or Mahogany faceplates. Pictures should look pretty nice as the 9.5-inch viewable area displays at a 720 x 480 resolution, and you can store around 45 JPEGs thanks to the frame's internal memory. But are the pretty colors going to be able to justify the frame's $200 price tag?

It's not as radical as some of Mustek's previous offerings, though it doesn't do less than the competition: MP3s, slideshows, and direct transfer from a USB drive or memory card are all supported. If you're still in the market for a digital photo frame, the PF-A1020BC is certainly one to look at. Keep an eye out for them this summer.

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Aluratek Photo Frame Plays Photos, Music, and Video

Louis Ramirez — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:45:00 EDT

Aluratek's new photo frame may not transfer images wirelessly nor does it sport a honkin' big screen, but what it does have (that most of its competition doesn't) is the ability to play all kinds of media, like MP3s, MPEGs and AVI files (in addition to displaying your photos of course).

The 10.5-inch frame comes with a built-in memory card reader, 256MB of onboard memory, and a USB 2.0 port. The display even has a sharp 1,024x768 resolution. The do-it-all frame is out today for $199. – Louis Ramirez

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