Tao Electronics has a large variety of digital picture frame “looks,” and on top of that, you can use almost any 
standard picture frame with your Tao frame!
This beautiful red-brown mahogony frame stands out, for me.
Sleek, simple, elegant. . . this lovely digital picture frame would highlight any decor.
Its 5.6-inch TFT LCD screen is perfect for your tabletop, bookcase, piano, bedside table, or desk. It is compatible with most memory cards: CFI, CFII, SD, MMC, MS, and xD, and with 128 MB of internal memory, hundreds of digital pictures can be stored in the frame itself.
Your Tao frame will do more than just display your photographs, too; it will also play your motion JPGES and Mp3’s. It requires no additional software, and while you can connect your Tao frame to your computer in order to transfer pictures, you don’t have to own a computer at all to use this digital frame! This makes it a perfect gift for your non-techie friends and family.
Remember, Mother’s Day is approaching quickly – it’s May 10th this year – and a pre-loaded Tao digital picture frame would be a wonderful gift for your mom, and grandmother, and aunts, and sisters. . . . Mom can sit in her easy chair and program her new Tao frame with the handy wireless remote.
Buying a Tao digital frame won’t break the bank, either; this one is only $129.99.
An article posted today in DVICE made 10 suggestions on improvements to digital frames. Many of these suggestions could be very useful such as Menu and UI improvements, battery power, and of course our favorite-”All Wireless, All the Time”!
Below is the list of the 10 suggested improvements made by author Paul Pachal. Read the full article here.
1. Frame Menus Should Work More Like MP3 Players
2. Big Screens
3. Full Mac Compatibility
4. Modular Frames
5. No One Cares About Music
6. No One Cares About Video
7. Battery Power
8. Controls on the Frame
9. All Wireless, All the Time
10. Color E Ink
We’re pleased to introduce MarketIntellnow, a leading market research and strategic consulting firm that is currently doing a report/survey on WiFi-Enabled Gizmos (WEGs). Over the next month, the team from MarketIntellnow will provide insight into their study results. We encourage you to visit their site and if so motivated to purchase their report.Â
Editor, WirelessPictureFrame.com
There are five key drivers for WiFi-Enabled Gizmos (WEGs):
- Wi-Fi penetration, currently at about 30% of U.S. households per our polling, is growing rapidly. A few WEGs– Digital Photo Frames and Webcams– already are riding the Wi-Fi wave. But these are single-purpose devices. We see a rise in multi-function devices, because…
- … there are a number of powerhouse widget-platform players like FrameMedia and AmnestyWidgets. They’re already driving content to PCs and laptops ’round the world. And Slide is in the #1 spot with a gaudy 177 million monthly worldwide uniques. So not only is there now plenty of “conduit” (wireless internet) in 30 million U.S. households and growing, but there’s also an easy way to self-provision content containers and the actual content therein.
- As to content, personalization (witness iTunes) is all the rage; everyone wants their “Radio Me,” as we like to call it. It’s easy to download audio and video content for one’s unique tastes (however esoteric). WEGs are new ways to distribute one’s personal content-set without having to carry around one’s iPod:
Your Content Where You Want It When You Want It.
- Appliance Intimacy: You’ve seen this. It’s the guy at the airport gazing deeply into the screen on his laptop, watching a video. It used to be that listening to music/watching a show was a group endeavor– it would happen in the “Family Room.” Increasingly, we’re cocooning with our devices, listening or watching solo, inches away. What this means for WEGs is everyone will want their very own (one per bedroom?), in part because your WEG plays your own unique content. As personal as a toothbrush.
- The United States is the richest country in the world, and almost without regard (within the relative range) to what consumer electronics SKU is offered, it moves at the magical price point of … $200. And of course, there is substantial elasticity south of $200.Consider Digital Photo Frames– some 5 million will sell in the USA this year. All they do is play photos, and to date it’s mostly been one’s own photos, not third-party content. Digital Photo Frames have been more a story of trial than adoption (ask a friend if he still uses the one he bought), but they support this thesis. These gadgets found momentum at the $200 price point, and as they hurtled toward $100, market demand surged.The ol’ Digital Photo Frame (single-function WEG) will give way to multi-function devices like this, beginning in earnest later this year, for the holidays:The questions we answer with our WEG survey include the following:
- What WEG functionality and content is desired most, by demographic?
- How will users want to manage their WEGs, and what’s the right form factor?
- What are folks willing to pay?
- Where will they put their WEGs? How many per household?
- What are the objections to WEGs, and can they be overcome?
- Where will folks want to buy their WEGs? And from what class of vendors?
Our ANWO survey is ongoing now, and the results with our accompanying analysis will be available 9/4/2007, via our eStore.
Questions? We’re marketintellnow on all the IM services.
Google’s Christmas gift to large AdWords publishers and advertisers was a digital frame. So the question which begs an answer, did PhotoVu receive one?
On December 9th, 2006, PhotoVu’s Co-Owner Mark Van Buskirk told those gathered at the Boulder New Technology Meetup that his Boulder-based company spent $4000 per day on Google (see ad below).
Digital Frame
www.photovu.com 10.4″ LCD, FedEx 2-day Upgrade Valentine’s Day Special, $209!
At a cost-per-click of $1.50 (price estimate based on Google’s traffic estimator on Jan 31, 2007), more than 2500 prospective digital frame consumers would have visited their site each day from the Google advertising alone.
How are others faring with site traffic? We will try to answer that question each month by presenting the current Alexa Ratings for those companies focused only on the digital frame space. The Alexa traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). The lower the rating the more visited the site.
So here’s how they stood on 1/30/2007
| Company Name |
URL |
Alexa Rating |
Date of Alexa Rating |
| Ceiva |
http://www.ceiva.com/ |
27,988 |
1/30/2007 |
| PhotoVu |
http://www.photovu.com/ |
232,091 |
1/30/2007 |
| PF Digital |
http://www.estarling.com/ |
295,194 |
1/30/2007 |
| Digital Spectrum |
http://www.dsicentral.com/ |
506,243 |
1/24/2007 |
| Pandigital |
http://www.pandigital.net/ |
1,001,981 |
1/29/2007 |
| iMate |
http://www.momentolive.com/ |
1,520,942 |
1/30/2007 |
| Bigeframe |
http://www.bigeframe.com/ |
1,571,353 |
1/30/2007 |
| KoolVu |
http://www.koolvu.com/ |
2,141,163 |
1/30/2007 |
PhotoVu is an early leader in adding wireless capabilities and photo RSS to their digital frames and while the product isn’t perfect (see our review) we hope their leadership and investment in helping to create this new market will pay off. PhotoVu seems to be making a splash but with many new entrants in the wireless frame market in 2007 including Digital Spectrum, iMate, Ceiva and Kodak, it should be an interesting year. For now, it looks like the PhotoVu ad spend has worked well! Stay tuned.
