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!
My refrigerator door is covered with tiny picture frames, magnets, magazine articles, coupons, recipes, and more tiny picture frames. I wasn’t going to be one of those women with ’stuff’ on the refrigerator door, oh no. My refrigerator was always going to be clean, uncluttered, and classic.
Then I had kids.
The thing is, I want to be able to LOOK AT my kids, and my cats, and my summer vacations, and my parents all the time, without clutter. Before the invention of the wireless digital picture frame, this just wasn’t possible. Now, it is.
The Whirlpool centralpark ™ is here to grant my every wish. I love this and I want one. Desperately.
Say and think what you will, and politically correct or not, most families spend a LOT of time in the kitchen. You know, where the refrigerator is? How appropriate would it be to make the refrigerator door the focal point of the kitchen WITHOUT covering it with clutter? Why not slideshow those pictures across the screen of a wireless digital picture frame, attached to the ’fridge door?
Thanks to this unusual yet amazingly practical marriage of Whirlpool and CEIVA, we can have the best of both worlds.
According to Lisa Smith, vice president of appliances for Best Buy, "Our customers are looking for innovative and meaningful ways to utilize technology in the kitchen. The centralpark ™ connection is a great example of form and function coming together to solve a real need for the consumer."
The Ceiva frame provides functionality, including the ability to automatically receive pictures wirelessly. The centralpark ™connection also allows consumers to update almost any electronic ’gadget’ at any time; multiple devices can be used interchangeably! The plug and play platform on the refrigerator adds functionality for today’s digital consumer.
Mark Hamilton, director of centralpark’s ™ new business development, says that "With the CEIVA Digital Photo Frame, consumers can have fresh pictures AND food each day, while keeping the refrigerator door free of clutter. The new centralpark ™ connection plug and play platform is the ultimate choice for consumers who want devices integrated with appliances and the flexibility to use the refrigerator with or without them."
Dean Schiller, CEO of CEIVA Logic, says, "Partnering with Whirlpool allows CEIVA to expand beyond the office and living room, and into the most popular family meeting place, the kitchen. We feel privileged to help families share their keepsake moments."
The Whirlpool Refrigerator with centralpark ™ connection is a monochromatic stainless steel side-by-side refrigerator with Fast Fill water filtration and In-Door Ice system. The centralpark ™ port is built right into the refrigerator door. The port can handle satellite radio, a Web tablet with interactive message board and family calendar, a wireless/digital picture frame, a DVD/Cd player, and more. The port can also charge up your Mp3 player, your cell phone, your iPod, and almost any other electronic trinket.
With the centralpark ™ port right in your refrigerator door, think of all that nice clean space on your countertops!
David Swift, president of Whirlpool North America, says that "The centralpark ™ port is an innovative idea that will be most welcome in the multi-functional kitchens of modern homes."
I agree. The kitchen has always been, and is supposed to be, the heart of the home. Why not make it the hub of the home as well?
The CEIVA wireless digital photo frame and the Whirlpool refrigerator are sold separately. The wireless frame is available at Best Buy for $249.00, and the side-by-side ’fridge can be had for $1999.00.
School is starting, and many families are trying to think of a unique and useful gift to give their child’s teacher. I have a suggestion.
I think every teacher should have a wireless digital photo frame in the classroom.
Think about it: a large wireless digital photo frame on the wall, in plain view of the students. The teacher has a digital camera or, even better, a wireless digital camera, and through each class, he/she takes pictures of the students at work. All day long, the slideshow plays on the wall, and students from one class see the students from other classes working, playing, singing, etc.
Speaking of students singing . . . most wireless digital picture frames have built-in speakers, and wouldn’t it be wonderful to HEAR the students, as well as see them?
Think about the possibilities. With a wireless digital picture frame in every room, including the principal’s office and the foyer, guests and visitors and parents would get a virtual tour every moment of the day! Schools might even raise some money by selling some of the great snapshots to the parents! It would be a great way to monitor weather reports, too; those Snow Days are pretty precious, you know.
I know, too, that when students KNOW they’re being watched closely, they behave better. What kid wants a picture of him throwing a spitball, plastered all over the school?
I’m a teacher, and I would love to own a wireless digital photo frame. I’ve talked to other instructors, and the very thought of having wireless digital photo frames in our classrooms is absolutely dazzling.
We could even send pictures to a student’s home computer, as a reward! (or a punishment; that would be up to the student.)
I think I’m on to something here. Every teacher I’ve talked to would be thrilled beyond measure to have a wireless digital photo frame.
When you head out to the mall to get your child’s teacher a memorable gift, why not check out the digital picture frames? WalMart’s got them. So does K-Mart. Best Buy. Sam’s Club. CostCo.
There really aren’t very many variety/electronics stores that DON’T carry wireless digital picture frames now, in fact. They’re one of the hottest items on the shelves!
