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According to new data from the Consumer Electronics Association (CED) and the GfK Group, consumer electronics revenue will grow nearly ten percent in 2008, hitting the $700 billion mark by 2009. As long as people try to improve their lives, they will continue to embrace technology.
CEA’s senior director of market research Tim Herbert says, “No matter where consumers are, whether it’s on the coast of Turkey or the mountains of Peru, they crave access to information, entertainment and two-way communication. Many regions of the world face high population densities or underdeveloped infrastructure. Mobile products help consumers overcome these hurdles.”
You may click this link to read the press release about this topic.
This is not an exaggeration, either. I fully believe that more and more, people are relying on electronic devices for many things, chief among them entertainment. In the area of wireless/digital picture frames, for example, one doesn’t even require a computer to use some of them; however, WITH a computer, and particularly with a wireless connection, one can utilize a wireless picture frame to its full capacity.
In Thursday’s post, Emily wrote about how consumers are spending approximately 10% more on electronics this year, and are expected to spend even more in 2009. These stats don’t surprise me in the least.
WebUser tells us that according to a recent Linksys survey, 3 out of every 5 broadband customers in the UK now have a wireless network at home, and that of these wireless households, 87% have a computer and/or laptop connected to the wireless router.
Chris Dobrec, director of Linksys Strategy and Business Development, says that “The research shows that wireless networking is now a mass-market technology and not only for the tech-savvy consumer.”
The Linksys survey also showed that nearly 100% of those who responded had a PC or laptop at home, 69% had a digital music player, 57% had a DVR/PVR, 58% had a games console, such as Nintendo, Wii, etc., and 15% had a wireless/digital photo frame.
With wireless-digital picture frames becoming more and more popular by the minute, I would take an educated guess and say that that percentage will be rising, and rapidly, too.
The wireless homes will surely take advantage of the connection to purchase a wireless digital picture frame, while less tech-savvy homes will be delighted with their digital frames.
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How many times have you looked at the pictures slideshowing across your wireless/digital photo frame and wished you had a print of THAT PARTICULAR PICTURE so you could send it to Grandma? But to do that, you have to run back to the computer room, call up the picture file, find the picture, print it off, and by the time all that is done, you can’t remember what or who it was for in the first place!
How wonderful it would be to just see a picture you want a print of and just push a button on the wireless/digital picture frame to get it. SHAZAM, there’s the picture, coming out of the back of the picture frame!
Well, you can.
With the SmartParts SP8PRT 8-inch digital picture frame, you can print out any of the pictures any time with just the push of a button! The printed pictures are excellent quality, too.
But wouldn’t a digital picture frame with a printer be awfully bulky? Wouldn’t it stick out from the wall or take up a LOT of room on the desktop?
Answer: no. The printer is built into the frame, and hidden behind the LCD screen, and you really can’t even tell it’s there until you use it.
You can load your pictures onto the SP8PRT with your camera’s memory card, your flash drive, or with the USB cable. This frame is priced at around $270.00.
We’ve talked about the Whirlpool refrigerator with the docking station before, and how you can put this Ceiva digital picture frame on it. This has been available for a while now at Best Buy.
The kitchen is the most-used room in any house, and it was just a matter of time before someone would think of using the refrigerator for even more things. After all, someone is almost always in the kitchen, and if someone is in the kitchen, that someone is almost always utilizing the refrigerator in some way.
Well, Whirlpoolnow has even more fantastic ways to use the docking station. You can power-up your iPod; you can charge your tablet PC.
Check out this video from CES 2008 just a few weeks ago. It’s incredible!
