Tag archive: Frame

Wireless photo frames are great. A tech-savvy gifter can easily configure one ahead of time to snag photos from a Web album, give it to someone a little less in touch with tech, and ensure that they’ll receive up-to-date family photos automatically, without so much as playing with a single menu. Of course, this assumes the receiving party has Wi-Fi access at home, which, if you’re giving it to someone who really doesn’t… Read More

Sometimes a product comes along that blends two technologies and the world wonder why no one thought of it before…and sometimes a product blends two technologies and people wonder why anyone thought of it at all. T-Mobile has announced its new T-Mobile Cameo, a digital picture frame that has its own T-Mobile phone number and email address. The idea is that friends and family members can use their camera phones to spontaneously send… Read More

If someone asked you to name the world’s best-known secret agent, of course you’d answer back with “Bond… James Bond.” (And, most likely, in an unintelligible warble that you’ve convinced yourself passes for a British accent.) Images of stealthy action, fast cars and gorgeous women racing through your mind would likely follow – plus, of course, high-tech toys provided by the trusty Q. Happily for fans of the legendary operative’s films, based… Read More

Moving away from the current crop of nearly identical digital photo frames that do nothing but serve up pictures, Sony released a more capable multi-tasking frame on Wednesday with the Vaio CP1. Besides display photos from camera memory cards, the new frame comes with Wi-Fi for pulling images from the Web, playing radio, and even delivering RSS feeds. The frame’s 7-inch LCD can display 16 million colors in 800 x 480… Read More

Consumer electronics brand Memorex has rolled out two new entries in its digital photo frame line, and what they lack in tech-savvy specifications and capabilities, they may make up for in price, distribution (Memorex is distributing them through K-Mart), and a special appeal to snap them up as Mothers' Day gifts—perhaps pre-loaded with family photos! "Digital picture frames are becoming so popular in the home and as gift… Read More

With all the computational gadgetry that has to be packed into a digital photo frame just to make it display pictures, you would think that with a little work it could be configured to display more than just photos of Timmy at Disney World – and you would be right. Mustek unveiled the PF-E700 on Thursday, a multitasking digital photo frame that puts its display to work for a host of other features. Besides pictures, the PF-E700… Read More

Edge Technology Corp. has introduced a new 12-inch Digital Photo Frame with a twist: this one packs an MP3 music player so users can have their favorite music accompany their digital photos. The 12-inch Digital Picture Frame with MP3 Player offers an 800 by 600 pixel resolution, and supports media cards and USB flash drives: user just plug in their digital media and pictures begin to appear on the screen. The frame enables users to choose… Read More

Digital picture frame maker PhotoVu keeps expending its horizongs—literally. Today, the company announced the availability of its PV2265w 22-inch widescreen digital picture frame. The LCD display sports a 1,680 by 1,050 pixel 16:10 widescreen resolution, and offers a customizable picture frame and matboard to complement your images, your decor, or both. The 22-inch model follows on the 19-inch photo frame the company launched last… Read More

Art aficionados will cringe at the thought of this, but consider: You can drop a thousand dollars on a piece of art, or you can drop a thousand dollars on a frame instead – and display whatever art and pictures you want for free. That’s the allure of PhotoVu’s new 19-inch widescreen digital picture frame, which has a price and frame size that put it right up there with small works of art. At $1199, the PV1965w… Read More

If the novelty of watching a slideshow of family photos on a tiny digital photo frame just isn’t doing it for you anymore, it may be time for an upgrade. Forget four by six inches, these things are into monitor territory now. Smartpants, maker of a full line of digital frames, announced their 15-inch model on Friday. The frame features an XGA (1024 x 768) LCD screen trimmed in birch wood, capable of displaying 16.7 million… Read More

Edge Tech, a supplier of DRAM and flash memory upgrades, last week announced a larger screen size for their Digital Picture Frame product. This new screen size, 7", is priced at $149.95 and is available now. The Edge Tech Digital Picture Frame, said the company, operates by displaying digital photos from one of multiple flash memory card formats into a card slot in the frame. Pictures on the card are then displayed on the frame's… Read More

Tired of papers hanging out of your plain old, torn-up black nylon laptop bag and ready to upgrade to something bigger, more manageable or ultra-stylish? The following ten uber-cool, hand-picked bags aim to please with style that will simultaneously punctuate your look and give you the ultimate in functionality, whether you're headed back to school, back to the boardroom or back to The Outback. Dangerous Vlieger & Vandam – Guardian… Read More

Digi-Frame has announced their latest digital picture frame, the DF-1710. The new model features a 17-inch LCD screen with 1280×960 resolution, a CD-ROM drive and an internal hard drive. From Digi-Frame's spec page: Load pictures and movies from CD-ROM, memory cards, ethernet, or 802.11b wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) Kodak Picture CD