FrameChannel: One of the 19 Best March Madness Tools!

If you subscribe to FrameChannel, you can have almost everything concerning March Madness delivered right to your wireless digital picture frame, or your desktop, or your Facebook!

You can sign up for specific teams, or sports trivia. . . pretty much anything to do with sports can be found on FrameChannel. Subscribe to FrameChannel and have NCAA results delivered directly to your Wi-Fi enabled picture frame.

Hawks, Celtics, Bulls, Bobcats, Cavaliers, Mavericks, Nuggets, Pistons, Warriors, Pacers, Rockets, Clippers, Lakers, Grizzlies, Heat, Bucks, Timberwolves, Nets, Hornets, Knicks, 76ers, Magic, Suns, Trailblazers, Kings, Spurs, Sonics, Raptors, Jazz, Wizards. . . FrameChannel has a channel for them all! It’s FREE!

MASHABLE even lists FrameChannel as one of the 19 best March Madness tools EVER!

Impecca Introduces Their WiFi Digital Photo Frame at CES

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is always a spectacular electronics extravaganza of new products, and 2008 is no exception.

Every year there are fabulous new electronic gadgets, and for a geek like me, it would be better than a theme park.

Don’t think for one moment that geeks are all nerdy twenty-something males, either. I personally tear that stereotype into pieces so tiny you’d need tweezers to pick them up.

This year, the CES is, as usual, featuring several new wireless/digital picture frames, and one of the best is the new 10-inch Impecca wireless digital frame.

You all know by now that I am the world’s biggest fan of the wireless/digital picture frame, and the Impecca looks like a winner to me. The price is more than reasonable (they’re starting it at $349.00), the resolution is high (800 x 600) and it does a multitude of cool things without being overloaded with confusing bling.

Impecca’s press release includes a list of uses for a wireless digital photo frame, most of which we’ve highlighted here before, but it’s always good to be reminded that a wireless frame is good for so many more uses than merely slideshowing family pictures, although that’s the main usage, again in my opinion.

You can read the Impecca wi-fi LCD digital picture frame’s entire press release here.

D-Link DSM-210 Has FrameChannel Access

The brand-new D-Link DSM-210 wireless digital picture frame has many useful, easy-to-use, and in fact GREAT features, but what makes me happiest about it is the fact that it is FrameChannel-compatible.

FrameChannel is, in my I’ve-been-using-it-faithfully-for-a-while-now opinion, the BEST picture program of them all. The D-Link frame can utilize it, and this, along with many other cool aspects, makes the D-Link frame a very high-ranking wireless frame, in my book. FrameChannel access has simply got to be one of the many, many reasons the Wi-Fi Photo Frame DSM-210 by D-Link has been awarded the Design and Engineering Awards by the CEA (Consumer Electronics Association).

This new wireless frame will be available soon – in the first quarter of 2008 – and it will cost only $249.00!

Here is the DSM-210 press release on the D-Link website.

From Picture Business Mag: Digital Frame Market Continues to Innovate!

From the October 24, 2007 Picture Business Mag.com comes this fantastic article about wireless/digital picture frames. I can’t improve on it, so here it is in its entirety, straight from the source.

“We absolutely love the amazing evolution, along with the sudden impressive emergence, of the digital picture frame category. What can’t these things do today? Stills, video, music, wireless sharing capability, changeable frames, increasing internal memory – incredible.

Seeing as these units have added such a wide variety of functionality, several manufacturers have begun offering this product in unique sizes. Digital Foci recently announced a keychain model to their one featuring a 1.5-inch LCD screen and 8MB of internal memory. An included Li-on battery offers up 9 hours of battery life.

PhotoVu has gone in the other direction, recently announcing a 22-inch widescreen display model. The PV2265W lists for $1,299.00 and features a 16:10 aspect ratio and a 1,680 x 1,050 res screen. This model also features built-in Wi-Fi for networking and can stream images directly from photo Web sites via RSS.

Continuing on the “On the Wi-Fi Front” for a moment. . . Digital Spectrum and MediaStreet have all recently come to market with wireless frames in a variety of sizes, so a product that screamed for wireless now has plenty of models to choose from, all offering a variety of features within the Wi-Fi set-up.

Lastly, and again on the decidedly high-end, comes Ceiva’s new 8-inch Wi-Fi model that can actually dock with Whirlpool’s new centralpark Connection refrigerators – the idea here being to enable consumers to display hundreds of images without using hundreds of magnets. The eventual marriage of digital photography and the kitchen fridge is finally here.

We have just one thing to ask of these manufacturers – please remember to offer one, relatively inexpensive model that simply displays pictures, in slideshow form, when you stick a card in it. Don’t forget the non-techies among us that will jump at that product. We understand from chatting with a few of the manufacturers in this market that the cost of LCD alone makes hitting a really low price point a challenge. Hopefully those costs come inline a bit more as the popularity of the device continues to grow and perhaps a $50.00 4-5 inch unit will someday soon be possible.”

I completely agree!