September 26, 2003

Wallflower

This has got to be the coolest picture frame to date. It is an 8x10 sized digital picture frame (essentially a laptop screen) with a hard drive and a wireless (WiFi) ethernet card.

The current picture frames include a 1.2 GB hard drive for storing photographs that are displayed on the LCD. Part of the space on the drive is reserved for future software upgrades. Wallflower's software includes a drag-and-drop program for transferring photos from a computer to the picture frame via WiFi as well as including configuration options. The highest resolution LCD offered by Wallflower is 1024 x 768. If you (manually) resized your digital camera's larger images to that resolution, you could store about 12,000 photos on the hard drive.

The software even enables you to load URLs and the pages are displayed and refreshed periodically. That's way cool! Imagine having friends over for a get together and you could display the web sites/blogs of your guests, interleaved with photos. Lots of interesting uses.

Posted by ac at September 26, 2003 04:46 PM

Comments

I love these kinds of things...in theory. In practice, all my pictures are in boxes and old albums! (And yes, the frames are mostly in the boxes too!!) lol

Posted by: cal at September 28, 2003 09:03 PM

heh! I know what you mean. There are some pictures, hanging no less, here which still have that lovely family which came in the frame.

The thing about the pictuers in boxes and albums is that they are more difficult to have available for people to look through. A screen/picture on the mantle which can cycle through the photos... that's another matter. In theory. In practice, I'm not going to spend the $700 to get one.

Posted by: ac at September 29, 2003 03:52 PM

I read in a magazine, (some article about "de-cluttering"), that the best way to store pictures is just putting them in a shoe-box. That way, you can just flip through them at random. That works for a person as disorganized as I am. Of course, I have aspirations...don't we all. (One can but dream.) Dang, I hope you like ramblers in your comments!!!

Posted by: cal at September 29, 2003 06:05 PM

I suppose it would be easier to flip through a bunch of photos in a shoe-box than viewing them on a PC... certainly allows for more than one person to enjoy them at a time. I still like the idea of the Wallflower though for displaying pictures.

I don't mind the rambling. It's nice to get comments from time to time.

Posted by: ac at September 29, 2003 06:32 PM