Archive for June, 2007
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The Axion AXN-9701 widescreen LCD 7-inch digital photo frame is now being shipped to stores. Take a good look at it up there; you want want one; admit it!
The 480 by 234 resolution frame will not only display your pictures and videos; it will also play your music. Even without a memory card, the frame’s internal memory can store up to 15 images, and with a memory card, the frame can display up to 2GB of photos. You can use your memory stick with this frame, too.
The brightness is adjustable.
Some digital camers will automatically save the pictures taken to different files on the memory card. The AXN-9701 digital picture frame has an auto-sort feature that will grab images from any and all folders on the memory card; you don’t have to ’select.’
Around $80.00, and it can be yours.
If you’ve ridden in a cab in most any major U.S. city in the last few years, you’ve probably noticed that many of them have backseat LCD screens that feature advertising. It makes sense: advertisers get a captive audience and cab companies get an extra revenue source (the passenger doesn’t get much out of it, probably, but like I said, captive audience).
It strikes me that the advances coming to digital picture frame and LCD technology may bring these advertising panels to many more places. One place that seems ripe for adoption of these panels is public transportation.
Busses and subway cars are already plastered with strips of advertising near the tops of their compartments. Those ads cost advertisers money to print and take public-transit-employee time to replace. As a result, they’re frequently out of date. But, what if those spots were replaced by wireless digital frames? I can image the scenario playing out like this:
The LCDs would need to be ultra-thin, light, and flexible. That tiny, bendable OLED screen that Sony showed off about a month ago would fit the bill. Sure, that needs to get a little bigger, but size will come with time.
The busses and trains would need to be outfitted with WiFi, but that shouldn’t be so complicated. It’s not uncommon these days for limos to have WiFi onboard for passengers. Trains and busses could use the same hardware and since many cities are already investing in free, municipal wireless, the network would already be in place.
The WiFi signal would be virtually uninterrupted for busses, of course, but trains would lose their connections when they go underground. Underground wireless hubs or a robust caching plan would be the solution here, because those screens will be doing a lot more than just showing ads that are updated once a week. These screens will be showing regularly updated content that people actually want to see: weather, news headlines, sports news and scores, entertainment headlines.
To further enhance the value of these screens, location-specific information could be added. The screens could display listings for events happening in the city that day and provide maps of how to get to them on the bus or subway. They could even provide event listings for each stop on the subway when the train arrives there. These listings could be complemented with photos of the area or similar events.
None of this will succeed, of course, if taxpayers end up footing the bill for what are — let’s face it — very cool, but not very necessary, enhancements to their public transit systems.
So, not only would the transit system need to charge for ads, it could also auction off the content space. So, Boston’s MBTA, for instance, might sell the rights for news headlines to ABC and for sports scores to ESPN, while the Bay Area’s BART could have CBS news and Weather Channel forecasts.
The final thing that would need to be addressed is the stability of the panels. After all, no one is going to like looking up from a book or newspaper only to be greeted by the public transit equivalent of a Blue Screen of Death.
Get a few things straightened out, though, and not only might public transit start making more money (thus enabling its expansion and doing us all a favor), but riding it might become a little more fun when you forget your book or iPod.
It’s not just homes that are displaying wireless/digital picture frames these days. Schools and businesses have caught on, too. A digital picture frame is an astoundingly good way to display aspects of life within the four walls of whatever establishment it is representing.
The ADS 7-inch LCD digital photo frame is an excellent choice for both home and business. Not only does it display your digital photos in several different formats, it also plays music or voice recordings. Add to that, you can also watch videos on this digital picture frame.
Some ads for this frame actually claim that it’s more like a portable media player than a picture frame, because not only does it display your pictures, it does so much more.
With 128 MB of built-in memory, you can display up to 2,000 pictures! If you intend to use the picture frame for music and movies as well as digital pictures, you will need to add a memory card or thumb drive for more storage capacity.
You say you’ve never heard of the ADS brand of digital picture frame? It’s true that ADS is not a big name, but its picture frames are of a quality that is to be envied by some of those so-called big names.
Remember, too, that every big name started out small. ADS might be a small company right now, but with products like this 7-inch digital frame, it’s bound to grow.
Rod Stewart sang, “Every picture tells a story.” This is very true. Don’t keep your pictures hidden on your hard drive. Put them out where you can see them. They’ll give you a lot of pleasure.
Watch them on your new ADS digital picture frame. It will cost you a mere $144.99. That’s not a lot to pay for such an awful lot of pleasure, now is it?
I/O Magic introduces its new 7-inch digital photo frame, the 17DPF. This new digital frame has integrated speakers and headphone jack, so you can play your favorite music through the frame for the whole house/office to enjoy, or listen with the headphones just for your own pleasure. You can change the picture display, or music, with the small wireless remote control.
Load the digital frame with pictures via your flashdrive, almost any kind of memory card, or directly from your computer via a usb port.
You can look at your digital pictures or watch videos on this versatile digital frame. The frame comes with a swiveling stand so you can change the orientation from landscape to portrait. Browse your picture files via a handy Directory Tree.
The I/O Magic digital picture frame will be available at most retail stores very soon, and will cost approximately $89.99.
