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Whoa, Google Glass Just Got Way Better Looking (Plus Prescriptions)

One of the biggest criticisms Google Glass has incurred since day one is that it’s, well, ugly and/or weird-looking. Believe it or not, Google may have actually just solved the problem. The four new frames, Bold, Curve, Thin, and Split—collectively known as The Titanium Collection (sound familiar?)—are a big step forward. Why? Because they look…

Every second in Star Wars IV arranged by how bright it is

You’re looking at every single second in Star Wars IV: A New Hope arranged according to their luminosity by Jason Salavon. It reminds me of a really cool book that I got a couple weeks ago—Star Wars: Frames. We are giving a copy of the book away, plus an original sketch by Star Wars’ artistic…

Movies Summed Up in Nine Film Frames

Movies are too long. Even film masterpieces can shave off a few minutes here and there so we can get off our butts, away from laptops, out of theaters, eyeballs off the TV a little bit earlier. So. How short can a movie be for you to get the gist of it? Can it be…

Don’t Toss That Tattered Old Tee, Immortalize It In This T-Shirt Shaped Frame

You loved wearing it out in public all those years, but deep down you new your favorite t-shirt—with its ironic catchphrase/humorous illustration/retro faded corporate logo—would not last forever. Instead of demoting it to rag duty, you can immortalize it forever in this t-shirt-shaped T-Frame. Unlike most t-shirt frames that are just a square box, the…

Frames: An App to Help You Create Wonderful Timelapse Videos

There’s something moody and wonderful about timelapses we can’t get enough of. They’re simple, beautiful and transfixing. Now there’s an app that allows you to easily create both timelapses and stop-motion videos without the chore of stringing together images in iMovie. You pick the content, it deals with the rest. What does it do? Frames…

Turn Your Least Favorite Family Member Into a Super Villain With This Comic Book Photo Frame

This clever comic strip picture frame, available soon for $18, comes with stick-on speech bubbles and caption boxes that let you impose any narrative you like on your recent family vacation. Perfect! Photographic proof that your Mom was being totally evil when she wouldn’t let you rent that jetski. [Perpetual Kid via BoingBoing]

Store Photos On Individual OLED Screens, With Nanobrick’s Miyoul Media Frames

So you’ve bought your XEL-1, but still have money to burn when it comes to OLED products? It’s such a common problem. Nanobrick’s caught onto your obsession, and has created 11 media frame models for customizing with your photos. https://gizmodo.com/sony-xel-1-oled-tv-is-worlds-most-expensive-chefs-knife-5131209 Each model has several OLED screens, which measure either 3.3-inches or 4.1-inches, for storing photos…

Image.jpg Could Be The First Analog Digital Photo Frame

Save those precious moments for posterity with the image.jpg photo frame. Digital and analog worlds collide with a silk-screened, wooden representation of a Mac image window that will contain a picture you probably took with a digital camera. For added authenticity, the frame also features a backing that simulates a transparent background. For even more…

Bellings Media Chef Addresses Unmet, Imaginary Demand for More Digital Recipe Displays

The Bellings Media Chef digitally displays recipe videos while you cook. Now, I’m not saying you could do this with your laptop and save money, but I am totally telling you could do this with your laptop and save money. Or better yet, do what I do: Forget this thing and take out one of…

Coffee Mug Houses Lovely Digital Frame

You know what there’s not enough of in the world? Coffee mugs with integrated digital photo frames. (If you answered clean water, peace or medical care, thanks for playing, idiot.) The Digi-Mug is packed with 1MB of memory (not a typo) that allows you to store 50 or so images for playback on its 1.5-inch…

iGala Wireless Photo Frame Has Touchscreen, Own Gmail Account

Normally I’d say digital photo frame, splidgital photo frame…but iGala’s one has a couple of features that make it stand out. It’s an 8-inch touchscreen, with standard 4:3 ratio 800 x 600 pixels so you get less irritating crops or letterboxing, plus its wireless and has 1GB of internal memory. But it’s actually got its…

NEC Develops a Heart-Shaped LCD For Justin Timberlake Fans Everywhere

The push towards non-rectangular displays is in full swing now that NEC has developed a more flexible TFT display that integrates the wiring circuits along the perimeter of the LCD glass. As a result, a wider variety of shapes becomes possible—like the heart-shaped prototype pictured above. Despite its prototype status, my guess is that it…

Show Off Your TV, Audio-Video Gear’s Beauty: Frame it

With flat-screen TVs becoming more elegant and less “boring black box,” perhaps we’re ready for the kind of Pimp My Lounge styling that Vismara Design’s Media Center frames offer. Turning your TV and audio-video system into a sort of giant art installation-cum-digital picture frame, they’re available now in baroque or art deco styles, in silver…

Portable Digital Frame, Webcam and Alarm Clock All-In-One

Hong Kong-based WinWin Industry has recently unveiled a product that combines a digital picture frame, webcam and an alarm clock with temperature and calendar functions in a single, semi-portable device. It also features 8MB of memory, a built-in rechargeable battery, a 1.44-inch screen and a 300K pixel camera resolution. Okay, so it won’t blow you…

Mustek PF-E700: a Digital Photo Frame With Extra Clock Screen

Mustek’s PF-E700 is yet another LCD photo frame, but with added alarm clock and indoor temperature gauge functions on a second small LCD screen at its base. The standard alarm snooze also gets an extra feature as a moody room light: you can set it so that each time you hit the snooze button you…

Digital Foci Set To Launch 3 New “Image Moments” Digital Frames

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…

Ovoid Digital Photo Frame is Not Exactly Excellent

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…

ViewSonic Digital Photo Frames Show Off Your Digital Snaps

Viewsonic is getting into the digital photo frame business and the first digital frames to launch will include an 8-inch widescreen frame with an 800×480 screen resolution that displays popular movie formats, has an integrated speaker for MP3 sounds and a remote control at a price under $200. ViewSonic will also have an 8-inch DF87G…

The digital picture frame market is projectedto surpass $42 million by 2011. [tgdaily]

Cubisto: InstaArt in 3D

The Cubisto is a $14.95 framing system that allows you to immortalize your favorite object that has no real use for on a daily basis. Using advanced technology including “two sheets of ultra-stretchy transparent material”, you sandwich your prized possession of choice within plastic and click the packaged frame around the edges. Hanging it the…