Giant’s InTouch: Versatility in a Wireless Digital Picture Frame

The International CES isn’t until January 8, 2009, but already the electronics companies are giving us glimpses of what to expect there!  Giant’s booth is one you won’t want to miss.

Jacqueline Emigh, of BetaNews, gives us several peeks into some new gadgets, including Giant International’s InTouch wi-fi-capable web access and audio-enabled photo frame.

Emigh tells us that “. . . priced at $349.99, the gadget contains a 7-inch touch TFT LCD display with 800 - by - 480 resolution, along with 128 MB of internal memory, built-in stereo speakers, and a USB port.  It also accommodates SD, CF, MS, MMC, and XD-Picture cards.  A power adapter is included, but the frame will also run on rechargeable batteries for about 90 minutes.”

The main menu contains icons for photo, media, tools, and RSS news feeds.  The feeds can be set up with the use on an on-screen QWERTY keyboard.  Giant also holds deals with vTuner for Internet radio and Web video access, and with FrameChannel for end user tools for managing content from Picasa, Flickr, Webshots, Facebook, and other Web sites.”

I’m always excited to hear about a wireless digital frame that is compatible with FrameChannel!

Giant’s sales director for new products, Thomas W. Silveria, tells Emigh in the article that one of Giant’s upcoming products is a system which adds phone functionality to the existing frame.

The Optex 15″ Digital Frame Has Bluetooth!

Australia has wireless digital picture frames, too!

From Tasco Sales comes the new Optex digital picture frame, with Bluetooth!  The 15-inch LCD display gives you 1028 x 765 resolution and twin-light technology, which means your digital pictures will be twice as bright!

You and your friends will be able to send pictures wirelessly from your Bluetooth phones right to this picture frame, and the pictures will appear as if by magic.

The Optex digital frame will display your pictures, videos, and will also play your Mp3’s.  With a full gig of internal memory, you’ll be able to store over 800 digital pictures in the frame, as well as usuing almost any memory card or flash drive.  And, with the wireless remote, you’ll be able to control the digital frame from your easy chair.

This new Optex Bluetooth Digital Photo Frame has a MSP of $429.00.

Put A Digital Spectrum MF8104 Wireless Digital Frame in Your Child’s Dorm Room!

Many of you are sending your son or daughter off to college this week, and did you ever imagine having so much stuff in YOUR dorm room back in the day?  I considered myself lucky to have a window fan, and my daughter is leaving tomorrow with a microwave oven, and little refrigerator, a toaster, a TV, and DVD player, a computer, a stereo system,  and a wireless digital picture frame.

Me, personally, I think the wireless picture frame is what she’ll enjoy the most.

Her dorm is wireless, so we got her a Digital Spectrum MF 8104, the same as I have at home.  I’ve not had a single problem with it and I can happily and honestly recommend it to all of you, too.  I’ll be able to send digital pictures to her with lightning rapidity, and she can send them to me, too.  She’s in the process of setting up a FrameChannel account for herself, too; it’s the best content provider out there.

She’s going to subscribe to the local hometown news and her new college news.  She was scrolling through the dozens and dozens of FrameChannel RSS channel choices as I left for the grocery store and when I returned,  she wasn’t finished checking all of them out yet!   She’s going to let FrameChannel handle her Facebook pictures, too.

If you have a child who is leaving home for college, think about geting him/her a wireless digital photo frame.  It’s an excellent way to keep in touch.

Weather Station/Digital Photo Frame: Beautiful AND Practical!

There are few things in this universe that EVERYBODY is affected by, but weather is one of them.  We can’t do anything about the weather, but we are almost obsessed with every detail about the weather.  There’s a Weather Channel on cable television.  There’s a Weather Channel on FrameChannel.  There are all kinds of websites about weather.  Banks and businesses have a Time and Temperature hotline.  Our computers display the time and often a little weather icon.  I think it’s safe to say that many people are very, very interested in the weather.

However, if your digital picture frame, the one that sits right there on your bedside table, displayed every detail you could possibly ever desire about the weather, that would be the coolest of all.  Talk about handy!  I mean, right there by your bed!

Thanks to Hammacher Schlemmer’s Digital Weather Station/Photo Frame, you can get the best of both possible worlds: the weather, and pictures of all the people who make your life worth living.

This digital photo frame/weather station has a clear, bright, full-color 7-inch TFT LCD screen, which is quite a shift from the monochromatic  ‘blah’ of a regular digital alarm clock.  The screen can display any kind of weather is a variety of ways, along with all the basic weather perimeters such as sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, humidity, moon phases, etc.  The Hammacher Schlemmer Digital Weather Station/Photo Frame can give you the weather inside your house and outside, too, thanks to the wireless sensor that sits outside your house.

As a digital picture frame, the Hammacher Schlemmer displays images from most memory cards and flash drives. There’s also a small bit of internal memory - 128MB - which will let your frame hold a few pictures in and of itself.

I would love to throw my boring digital clock-radio out the window and put a Hammacher Schlemmer Weather Station/Digital Frame by my bed.  I would also like to have one in the bathroom and the kitchen.  You can’t have too many pictures of those you love best, and I might need to know details about the weather in a room other than the bedroom, too.

Price:  $199.95, from Hammacher Schlemmer.