My parents don’t look like this any more, but on my wireless digital picture frame they still do, several times a day.
In these pictures, my parents are younger than my daughter and son are today. The guns remind us that they were nobody to mess with back then.
Just kidding. They were target shooting by the river. We still do things like that in these parts. The crazy Political Correctness Police haven’t reached us here, not yet, anyway. It’s nice.
My point is this. My father died ten years ago, and my mother is in her seventies, in real life. My wireless picture frame does more than just give me a slideshow of almost two thousand FrameChannel pictures; it is also a kind of time machine.
On the back of my piano is a Digital Spectrum MF8104 10.4-inch wireless digital picture frame, but when I look at it, and I look at it ALL THE TIME, I don’t see a picture frame. 
I see my entire life. I see my teenaged parents, and my middle-aged parents, and my mother as she was last week. I see my grandparents who’ve been gone for over forty years. I see uncles and aunts and cousins and old friends. I see my own children as tiny babies and as toddlers and as small children and as teens and as they are today. Sometimes, the contrasts make me cry - the good kind!
With regular picture frames, which used to be ALL OVER MY HOUSE, nothing ever changed. I got out of the habit of even looking at them, except to dust them. Now, with my wireless digital picture frame, I can’t stop looking. And neither can anybody else who stops by my house.
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.
