The Digital Family Portrait

Several hospitals, nursing homes, and eldercare facilities are encouraging the use of a wireless digital photo frame to keep the sick and elderly in touch with the everchanging appearance of their extended families, and I think this is a wonderful thing to do!

The wireless digital frame is strategically placed where the ill or elderly person normally sits or lies down, and all day, every day, the pictures change, controlled by family members across the street, across town, or across the country.

Great-Grandmother can watch small children at play, in concerts, at ball games, etc, and can see everyone in the family as they go about their day-to-day living. It’s a wonderful way to bring family and friends into the life of a bedridden or homebound person, or even just Grandma who gets around fine but whose children and grandchildren are a thousand miles away.

I would go one further and state that this kind of project need not be limited to the elderly or ill. Why not have every household in a family have a wireless digital picture frame, and keep in touch with each other via the ever-changing images? It would be like a family reunion, every day, and minus the arguments. Of course, it would also be minus all that fantastic food, but here’s my advice on that: Have a live reunion once in a while and take lots of pictures of that food, and include them in the wireless digital photo frame ‘broadcasts.’ That way, you can look, and drool, but you won’t gain weight.

And talk about Mother’s Day perfection!!!!

The Digital Family Portrait. Check it out. I think it’s a wonderful idea.

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