Kodak Introduces Two New Wireless Digital Picture Frames

There’s a fantastic review of the two new 8 and 10-inch Kodak wireless digital photo frames over on the Techy Boys’ website, and it’s well worth reading!

The TechyBoys also like FrameChannel! “I find FrameChannel to be rather interesting as it provides users with access to the latest news, weather, traffic, sports scores and more with a single touch. In addition, FrameChannel doubles up as a portal enabling access to images from popular photo-sharing and social networking web sites.”

Read more about Kodak and FrameChannel on the TechyBoys website.

Kodak EasyShare EX1011: Target Has A Deal For You!

I love to shop at Target, and yesterday, as I was checking out the electronics department (Electronics is my favorite department in any store; I’d rather look at wireless picture frames, cell phones, and mp3 players than clothes and jewelry) (Yes, I’m a woman), I saw a crowd gathered around a display. I’d seen this happen in electronics before, and it’s usually because something really awesome is being displayed.

With electronics, of course, the best way to display something is to set it up and let it run.

That’s what they’d done with the Kodak EasyShare EX1011 wireless digital picture frame.

Customers were letting the clerk scan their wallet pictures and upload them on a computer, and from the computer, the wireless digital picture frame picked them up and put them on a slideshow.  Everybody in the store was pushing forward, waving pictures of their kids, their dogs, etc, to see them on the wireless Kodak frame.

Talk about excellent publicity for Kodak!!!!!

The Kodak EasyShare EX1011 wireless digital picture frame is a fantastic frame, even without the need for some crowd control.  You can get all kinds of faceplates for it, so it’s bound to go beautifully with any decor.

Since it’s wireless, you can send your pictures to it from a thousand miles away!  I love that about a wireless frame!

At Target, right now, the Kodak EasyShare EX1011 wireless digital picture frame is only $249.99.  What a deal!

Motorola and Kodak Present the Wireless Digital Motozine ZN5!

From TWICE comes the news that Motorola and Kodak have joined forces with their new 5 megapixel cameraphone, the ZN5.

The Motozine ZN5 is a fully functional Kodak camera, and when you use it, you can automatically download the pictures from the camera to your computer the moment you take them, or, you can save them for later.  Once on the computer, you can utilize the Kodak Gallery and all of the Kodak picture functions. 4 gigs of expandable memory give you plenty of room for tons of pictures.

You can also download your pictures to almost any other picture-sharing website.  I recommend, naturally, FrameChannel.  Of course, you can also store your pictures on the Kodak site, or Picasa, or Flickr, or Google, or, actually, anywhere on the net, and still use FrameChannel to manage them.  Once on FrameChannel, or any picture site, your wireless digital picture frame will immediately begin to include the new pictures in its slideshow!

Your Kodak/Motorola camera will upload your pictures to any wireless digital picture frame you tell it to; whether it’s yours in your own living room, or Grandma’s a thousand miles away.  How cool is that?

Wifi, Bluetooth, MMS. . . . or a direct Kodak Gallery upload. . . Think of the many options the Motozine ZN5 offers!

My Wireless Digital Picture Frames Helps Me Contemplate Mortality

I don’t lecture at the college today until 1:30,  and I could have slept in. Sleeping in is the very essence of “weekend” to me, and I usually make use of every opportunity that comes my way. I am a night person to the extreme, and I am at my most alert in the wee sma’s. I would have been an excellent vampire; the hours are ideal, and the thought of being empowered to suck the very lifeblood out of anybody who wronged me is most appealing.

It worries me, those thoughts. I’d stop having them if I could, but since it’s obvious to anybody who knows me even a little bit that I really like them they are beyond my control, I just have to live with them. It’s a condition. I can’t help it. I should be getting guv’ment money because I have a condition. Everybody else who has a condition is getting money for it.

It’s not my fault that I have a condition. I should be monetarily compensated for having a condition. Gone are the days when vampires were labeled “monsters” and sold in plastic pieces by Aurora Models along with Frankenstein (which is NOT the monster’s name) Wolfman, and the Mummy.

Whatever. I couldn’t sleep in this morning, and it’s my mother’s fault. I gave her a Kodak S510 digital picture frame for Mother’s Day (I’m early, but I couldn’t wait to give it to her) (If you search carefully, you can find one for under forty bucks now!) and she let me take her old photo albums home to scan the best pictures so I can put them on the digital frame. (Digital picture frames are AWESOME. And wireless digital picture frames are even better!) (Mine has its own email address; let me know if you’d like to send me some pics.) (Seriously, I absolutely adore my beautiful, wonderful wireless picture frame.) (I’d love to get pictures from you!)

So, until almost 5 a.m., I was turning pages, scanning old photographs (some taken with a Brownie Starmite; some were taken with a little square brown plastic camera my mother had in high school; there were even a few tintypes!) People I’ve known all my life danced through those photo albums. My parents, aunts, uncles, neighbors. . . people I thought were OLD when they were actually in their twenties and thirties. . . and they were all so beautiful. My siblings, from birth to yesterday, changing so subtly year after year until finally they looked as they look today. The house where we all grew up: it was so TINY! I never noticed until last night just how small that house really was. My mother and father, interacting with us, in color and in black-and-white. . . somehow, the black-and-white photographs were far more beautiful and telling.

I finished scanning the stack of albums, but haven’t trimmed and cleaned up all the pictures yet. And when I take this stack of albums back, I’ll take home yet another stack.

It’s a good thing I bought a 2-gig flash drive last night; the 512MB drive that’s in her frame now would never be able to handle this kind of picture load. The new drive is a Lexar and it’s only about an inch long. If you have a digital picture frame and want to use a flash drive with it, I highly recommend this tiny Lexar. It doesn’t even show when it’s plugged into the frame!

Buy it at WalMart or K-Mart, though. It’s wayyyy cheaper there. Considerably. Isn’t technology amazing? Who could ever imagine that something an inch long could hold thousands of pictures?

Anyway, back to my original point: I couldn’t sleep in this morning because my dreams kept waking me up. Where did all of these young, beautiful people go?

Then I looked in the mirror and thought, “Yes, where indeed?” Sigh.

Fortunately, on my Digital Spectrum MF 8104 wireless digital picture frame, everybody in the world whom I love is forever young, and alive, and full of life.  And yes, I am putting all of Mom’s newly-scanned photographs right straight into my FrameChannel account.  Already they’re in the slideshow.  It’s wonderful.

And in Mom’s new Kodak S510 digital frame, everyone is forever young, alive, and full of life, too, thanks to that Lexar flash drive.

All four thousand pictures’ worth of people.