Say Goodbye To Bulky, Dusty Albums, and Say Hello To Your Wireless Digital Photo Frame
Back in the day (wayyyyy back in the day. . . .) families generally stayed in one area. Parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins: everybody lived in the same town, and everybody saw each other on a fairly regular basis. People took snapshots, and sometimes people shared the negatives, but when grandparents saw their grandchildren almost every day anyway, pictures weren’t really necessary in order to keep up on what the children looked like. Families posed for the occasional formal portrait, but sharing candid photos of our everyday lives just didn’t seem that important when people saw each other all the time anyway.
This changed when families started moving to the suburbs, and it changed even more when families started following the job market around the nation. Suddenly, grandparents weren’t seeing their kids or their grandkids all the time, and suddenly, it became really, really important for those grandparents to get pictures. Lots of pictures.
Most families have bookcases full of photo albums. In most cases, those photo albums are one of the first things people grab when the house catches fire; pictures of loved ones are, yes, that precious.
But honestly? How often do we sit down with those bulky photo albums and really look at what’s inside? Once a year? When the family convenes at Thanksgiving or Christmas? For many families, it may have been years since those bulky albums were opened. And yet, when they DO open them and really look, it’s an emotional, “why don’t we do this more often” type of reaction.
This ‘once a year’ viewing of valued family photographs is about to come to an end. Frame Media is developing some fabulous software for wireless digital picture frames, and in just a couple of months, it will be available, and I WANT ONE! I mean to say, I really, really want one.
Any visual that’s on your computer can be seen on your living room wall. It’s wireless. It doesn’t even have to be located anywhere NEAR your actual computer. You will be able to sit at your computer, upstairs or downstairs or wherever your computer is, and program that picture frame to show all of those precious old photographs, as well as all of those precious photographs from this morning. There is practically no limit to the amount of pictures you’ll be able to put on there, and just think, no more pulling out those bulky albums to see Andy and Sara and all the little cousins, romping and playing and losing their diapers in public and eating Happy Meals. You’ll be able to see Grandma and Granddad and all the precious folks who’ve gone before.
The wireless photo frame can hang anywhere in your home, and it will fit right in with whatever particular feng shui you’ve got going for you, and it will become the work of sheer art that your entire room will focus upon.
Ever-changing, ever-precious, ever reminding you of what’s really important in your life.
I want one. I WANT ONE. I can’t WAIT to get my hands on one. I know just the place to hang it, too. It’s all I can do not to take down the picture that’s already there and leave a big blank spot, waiting. HURRY UP, wireless digital picture frame makers!
Actually, several different companies are working on a version of the wireless digital picture frame. I was just checking out Westinghouse’s frame; it looks pretty good, and does a lot of cool stuff, but it’s not wireless. Kodak, of course, has theirs almost ready to go; they’re available in March. And they look AWESOME.
Did I mention that the wireless digital frames will play your Mp3’s? Randomly, or programmed any way you want? I did? Well, I’m mentioning it again. The soundtrack of our lives, playing along with the pictures that represent our lives. Sigh, lovely.
Come on, wireless digital photo frame people. This thing is too cool; I just simply can’t WAIT.
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