With its inherent ability to remain connected to the Internet, the Intouch IT7150 is capable of achieving instant access to news, weather, social media, other dynamic content and online photo galleries, alongside enabling users to organize and share their own photos through a partnership with FrameChannel. Apart from that, users can also upload photos and other content into the internal frame memory directly from a memory card, the Web, or even a PC using a Wi-Fi or USB connection. You will be able to check up on the latest news updates from Washington through FrameChannel, while subscribing to personalized RSS feeds from your favorite sites (including CG, of course!). Heck, even the latest weather conditions can be checked out if it is so required before you head out for your vacation.

Some of the features found on the Intouch IT7150 include :-

• 7″ color digital display screen with 16:9 aspect ratio
• High resolution at 800 x 480 pixels
• Wi-Fi connectivity
• Touch operation with on-screen QWERTY keyboard
• Digital photo frame with FrameChannel partnership
• Wireless RSS 2.0 feed reader
• Live internet radio
• Video/audio/photo playback function
• Stereo speakers (1W x 2)
• 128MB of internal memory
• Audio jack
• Clock, calendar and alarm
• USB cable included to connect to PC
• Rechargeable battery with estimated 1.5 hours battery life

Expect the Intouch IT7150 wireless Internet frame to retail for $229.99 if you’re interested in bringing one home.

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Relying fully on AT&T’s nationwide wireless network when it comes to sending and receiving photos, users are able to do so directly from the Vizit itself to friends and family via email or over to another Vizit, allowing you to build a private community of friends and family who are open to sharing their lives with a close circle at all times. This brings the photo sharing concept to a totally new level, where those who have access to Vizit are able to know what’s happening at that very moment – without having to wait for you to sort through and process a whole bunch of photos stashed away on your memory card. Sort of like a visual Twitter, so to speak.

Features of the Vizit include a 10.4″ high resolution touchscreen display complete with easy-to-use icons and an intuitive carousel menu that allows you to navigate through photos in a jiffy. You can create your own photo slideshows if you want to, rotate or enlarge them to fill up the entire screen. Each time new photos arrive, you can send replies back to the sender or forward said photos to other family and friends. You will require a monthly or annual photo plan to go along with the inital $279.99 price point, of course.

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Miniature LCD photo frames are nothing new, nor is a small portable alarm clock.  However, the combination of the two could make going away from home a little easier.  It’ll allow for you to have the comfort of using an alarm clock that you trust and keep pictures of your family with you.  Of course it won’t help make your hotel bed more comfortable, but at least it’s something.

The photo frame will hold 30-80 pictures in it, all depending on the size of the pictures themselves.  It has a built-in memory capacity of 4MB.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that you can plug a memory card into it to expand the amount of memory available.  However, it’s forgivable since it is just a small photo frame.  The alarm clock has the usual features that an alarm clock would, it’s nothing special.  You can purchase the set for £19.95 or about $33 through MUJI.

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The DreamScreen allows the user the ability to connect to his or her home network via Wi-Fi or Ethernet, and then drag and drop files through the network. Of course, if you want use the old fashioned method that involves using memory cards and flash drives.

There is about 2GB worth of storage on this guy, and it is capable of playing video and music files. The music feature is helpful if you want to make a slideshow, but if this DreamScreen really is net connected, then you could just tune into some Internet radio.

As for the controls, they are located on touch sensitive controls on the right hand side of the screen, or through the wireless remote. Yes, it is not a touchscreen.

In addition to all those features, the DreamScreen can take photos from Snapfish photo galleries, even access Facebook content. All this and more with a world clock, calendar, and weather display with 5-day forecast.

The DreamScreen 100 should be available soon for a price of $250 for the 10.2 inch model, and $300 for the 13-inch DreamScreen 130, to be available later this fall.

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No longer do mothers carry around a small booklet showing off their children.  Now, you can carry around a digital keychain that can hold far more than that little booklet ever could.  This keychain will allow for you to keep photos of your loved ones close to you, without weighing you down too much.  This would be especially great for those that travel frequently and want something to flip through when they’re stuck in a hotel away from the ones they love.

One thing with this is that it’s actually meant to be used as a keychain.  However, I know for me at least, something that large on my keys would annoy me a little.  Then again there are a great deal of people that load down their keys with various keychains, so for them this won’t be an issue.  The screen itself on this is 1.5 inches, although they don’t say what the keychain as a whole measures.  The frame will hold over 100 photos in the built-in memory and when fully charged can function for up to 2 hours.  You can purchase the Kodak Keychain for $29.99.

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That, or some other weird sixties British science-fiction show where the set designers thought they were being futuristic, but it ends up looking completely ridiculous by today’s standards.

In other words, I can just see agent John Steed sitting at his desk, turn on the two-way communication screen with his umbrella, and utter “Miss Peel, we’re needed”.

I realize that some of you might not get The Avengers reference, and that’s fine. However, you should admire Sungale’s retro-looking combination of a lamp and digital picture frame.

The screen has a 320 x 240 resolution, and has 512 MB. It can be expanded with SD, MMC, or Memory stick for photo and videos. It also has a calendar and clock, as well as capacity for playing back MP3s.

Controls are located below the screen for the photos, music, and video. To the right are the interface controls for the main menu and on the left is the adjustable lighting for the 5-watt bulb.

All this for a low price of $90. I suppose if you were doing your home in theme of “The Village” then this would be your accessory.

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I suppose what makes this photo frame different is that it is motion activated. Every time someone walks past it, an unusual effect begins to happen: it starts to snow.

That is, it snows in the 4 x 6 image. Hopefully you have an appropriately themed winter picture, or it could look a little odd. If you have a summer picture, perhaps you could have a caption reading: “Greeting from St. Helens”.

Some of you might think the motion-activated snow thing is just silly, like one of those snow globes that you shake and snows. At least you get to pick the scene.

I say, make the next version of this digital picture frame do more. Make so it rains when you pass by it, or better yet, make it do a meteor shower like the opening scene of Armageddon. The possibilities are just endless here.

Of course, adding those features would make the price go up a few notches, wouldn’t it? As it is, the price is at a very low $25.

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Sony will soon be releasing a digital photo frame that will definitely appeal to those of you that enjoy your bedazzled gadgets.  Likely, most of the ones that enjoy this type of thing are going to be females too, since it does have  a slightly feminine look to it.  The photo frame has embedded Crystalized Swarvoski Elements, so it’s an affordable bedazzling.  Which in this economy is always a bonus, even if you’re not hurting too badly for cash.

The frame itself measures 7 inches and has a full one gigabyte of internal storage capacity.  The frame can store up to 2,000 photos and features auto-resizing to make all of your photos fit.  It has 800 x 480 WVGA resolution and supports JPEG and RAW (SRF, SR2, ARW) image file formats.  To get your photos onto the frame, just plug the frame into your USB port on your computer.  Like most photo frames like this it has various playback options and a remote control.  The frame will be out this October and will cost you $150.

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First off is the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera that offers integrated electronic image stabilization for vibrant and sharper full HD videos, a generous 2.5″ color LCD display, a swing-out USB arm for fast uploading, sharing and charging, a 5-megapixel 16:9 widescreen image sensor, an external microphone jack and easy uploading of snapped photos and videos to Facebook and YouTube.

Up next is the EasyShare Z950 digital camera that boasts a 10X image stabilized SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH VARIOGON optical zoom lens, a 12-megapixel sensor, Kodak’s Smart Capture feature and a fast click-to-capture speed of less than 0.3 seconds. The smaller EasyShare M381 digital camera, however, also comes with a 12-megapixel sensor with a 5X optical zoom lens and an advanced feature set which comprises of HD still image capture, easy uploading to Facebook, YouTube or Kodak Gallery, face detection of up to 5 faces and blue reduction technology.

The EasyShare S730 digital frame comes with a built-in rechargeable battery, allowing one to use this as a portable digital photo album without being restrained by the length of its power cord. It comes with a new Picture Finder feature that makes it easier to locate images you want to share with others on the spot. As for the D830, this new Décor Series will come in a choice of hundreds of traditional picture frames for those who want to maintain a visible link between old and new technology. Last but not least is the Theatre HD player that comes with YouTube support, Net video access and discovery collage views, giving you superior all round control of your photo collection.

The Kodak Zi8 pocket video camera, EasyShare Z950, EasyShare M381, S730, D830 and Kodak Theatre HD player will retail for $179.95, $279.99, $179.99, $139, $139 and $199.99, respectively.

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I suddenly had a flashback to CES last January, when I stumbled across the booth with this fine product. The only reason why I remember it is because of its Braille dot logo on the word “Album” and its simpler three-button interface. (Simpler when compared to the Photo Book, which is still pretty simple, really.)

The Digital Photo Album comes with a 7” inch screen that displays JPEGs in 800 x 480 pixel resolution. These images can be transferred directly to the device via USB port with USB OTG. There is about 4 GB worth of memory on the Album for the user’s photos, and it can also read SD, SDHC, and MM cards.

As far as I can tell, the Hama Digital Photo Album is almost identical to the aforementioned Photo Book from Digital Foci. Digital Foci’s got an extra inch worth of frame on its diagonal, but lasts the same amount of time after recharge: 2.5 hours.

The problem is, my source doesn’t say when the Hama Digital Photo Album will be released, nor a price. It would appear that little has changed since I saw Hama at CES, but I’m sure they are making progress, and I look forward to seeing the Digital Photo Album when it is finally released.

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The Photo Book PBK-080 harkens back to the days when people stored their photos in quality albums. It has a leather-like case that magnetically seals, and, once fully charged, the user is free to download his or her photos through memory cards or by USB flash drives to internal memory.

The downloading was quite simple as it recognized my photo folders from my thumb drive right away, and they copied and pasted into the Photo Book for permanent storage. There is about 4GB worth of storage on the device itself, and it can even do video.

I found that the Photo book arranged my photos in a very classy way, and even had music. I’m not certain how to change the music, but I was able to do some pretty cool slideshows that looked very good on its 8-inch screen.

In short, the Photo Book from Digital Foci is the perfect gift for anyone in the family who is into collecting old photos or scrapbooking. It is also a very professional tool for those who want to make business presentations as well. You should be able to purchase it at the Digital Foci site for about $189.00

You will be able to access the feature-packed channels via Toshiba’s FrameChannel partnership, customizing the categories according to information that only you want. There are more than 1,000 free channels available at this moment, spread across 19 categories with selections like People.com, Men’s Tennis, 3-Day Forecast, Stock Quotes and Facebook, among others. Users who decide to subscribe to their favorite channels will see the Toshiba Digital Media Frame automatically update with real-time information, keeping you in the loop at all times without making you feel left out whenever your mates start discussing last night’s game scores at the water cooler.

Toshiba makes sure their Digital Media Frames won’t disappoint in terms of design, coming in a high gloss exterior (ala fingerprint magnet) alongside a high resolution display, a tilt sensor that adjusts the image automatically in its respective formats, easy navigation, touch sensitive controls that light up whenever pressed and a fully customizable interface to suit your personality. You will be able to choose from 8″ models that will come in in black (DMF82XKU) or white (DMF82XWU) with an acrylic front finish and eye-catching reflective trim, while the black 10″ model (DMF102XKU) comes with a striking faceplate design and a slim profile. The 8″ and 10″ models will retail for $179.99 and $229,99, respectively, when they hit the market later this August.

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According to the Product Page, the 2.4 inch TFT display is the world’s first digital photo frame to contain motion sensors that allow for its unique feature. Generally, I’m always suspicious when someone says “world’s first”, but the fact is the Shake-A-Pix has 64 MB worth of memory, which is enough for about 90 images in 320 x 240 pixel resolution.

Since it is the size of a credit card and slim (0.6 cm), it can be carried with you for a quick photo show. It even includes a neck strap for an ever-changing necklace. It also includes a USB cable for downloading photos, and presumably for recharging the battery.

You should be able to purchase the Sondata Shake-A-Pix at the aptly named Find Me a Gift site for about £22.50 ($36.64).

For the price this is a very sweet piece of kit. A standard cordless telephone (with base) and also a wireless digital picture frame which can be used as a speaker phone, very cool and very cheap.

• Handsfree speakerphone.
• 25 name and number memories for handset, 40 for photo frame.
• Last number redial for handset only.
• Outgoing call log handset 20, photo frame 30.
• Secrecy button.
• 10 ringtones at handset, 10 ringtones at photo frame, 5 ringtones at base.
• Call transfer for handset, photo frame receive only.
• Call timer.
• Caller ID.
• Clock.
• Separate volume control in base, handset and photo frame.
• DECT cordless.
• Requires AAA rechargeable batteries for handset (supplied).

From Argos for £24.47 (reduced from £97.89) (while stocks last).

I’m sure the Kodak Easyshare S730 is not the first digital picture frame that runs on batteries, but battery power should be a standard feature for most electric frames. As it is, most digital picture frames are a slave to their own cord, which makes it really inconvenient when hanging them on the wall. Of course, the rechargeable battery on the S730 is only good one hour away from the outlet.

The frame has about 1GB of memory, which is good for storing many photos. There is a memory card reader, but no report of a USB port.

There are touch sensitive controls on the frame bezel, which allows the user to access the menu. One can only assume that the controls are used to make slideshows and all of the usual digital picture frame fare. This would include the ability to play videos and music, I could only assume.

The Easyshare S730 should be available sometime in September for about $139. If it is a hit, then you should see many other digital picture frames made just like it.

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I had a chance to try out this product for myself, and I didn’t find it any different than the GiiNii 8-inch Multimedia Digital Picture Frame that I currently have on my wall.

The operation is very simple on both of these products: just insert your SD card or flash drive memory stick, turn it on, and you already have everything you need for a slideshow. I don’t have much experience with digital picture frames, but I am guessing this is standard operation procedure for any electronic frame these days. The VFD820-12 has an internal memory of 2G, so you should have quite enough room for many, many pictures.

The VFD820-12 also has a “clock and calendar to keep you on schedule”, but I found it difficult to set the time from the menu. The controllers aren’t as easy as the GiiNii one, as it has all the buttons in a row rather than bunched together in an instinctive, almost iPod formation.

Yeah, I should probably stop comparing the VFD820-12 with that one form GiiNii. However, the one from Viewsonic has one very cool feature, an included glass screen that gives it a classy look. You should be able to purchase this Viewsonic frame on Amazon for about $79.99 in Black and Espresso color.

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The SilverFrame has a 10.1 inch display that sports a 1024 x 576 resolution. Since it has WiFi b/g/n connectivity and Bluetooth 2.0, the user has many ways to download photos to this frame from such programs as Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook, and Windows Live.

Pictures can also be put in via USB port, multiformat memory card slot, and micro-USB port. Since it runs Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2, the user can easily set up a slideshow with Windows SideShow and Live FrameIt. It can also play video, music, show e-mails, and sync with the user’s calendar. Nice. Very nice!

The ADPF also has a Freescale processor with 512MB of RAM and 1 GB of Flash memory. It also has an infrared remote, twin 1.5 speakers, plus a rotation sensor. That means you can rotate your frame, and it will sense what direction the pictures are and automatically make the adjustment.

Yes, I know it looks nice, but I don’t have any word on price or availability. I’m a little concerned that it will be a little too much for the average consumer. This is not your cheaply made digital photo frame, after all.

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Although I’d like to get it out of the way that I do not under any circumstances enjoy Hello Kitty products and think that grown women look silly using them, this would be a great gift for a young girl.  After all, kids are becoming far more tech savvy than their parents, so they might as well enjoy technology such as this as well.  Having around a digital picture frame would give them the ability to display a lot of photos without the clutter of a lot of picture frames.  The only downside to this is that someday they may outgrow their Hello Kitty phase.

Actually, make that hopefully someday they’ll outgrow the Hello Kitty madness.  If they did, then there would be a digital picture frame with no one to enjoy it.  The up side with Hello Kitty is that there never seems to be a shortage of fans though, so you could always resell it.  The frame was announced by Sanrio Japan.  There will be two 7” Hello Kitty frames with 6MB of internal memory.  There is also the ability to plug in a SD/SDHC, MMC, CF or a USB drive.  There is no word on pricing just yet or when these are expected to be out, but you can expect to see them around sometime in the future.

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