The eStarling Gmail/Flickr frame is different. Using its integrated WiFi, the frame connects to your home or office network, where it not only has its own email address for sending it photos to display, but it can also randomly show photos from Flickr using any tags or RSS feeds to give it.
You get bonus points if you, as a geek, can get this thing to display a flickr pool that’s interesting without using the word “boobies”.
eStarling WiFi gmail/flickr enabled LCD frame [Think Geek]
This sure beats the USB dancing stripper reviewed earlier… a product that actually has a purpose and interesting as well! It will be fun when these come out with cameras, so you can watch your home while your gone or see the reactions on peoples faces when they look at your pictures.
Jon
I feel like the digital photo frame had previously been relegated to Grandma’s bookshelf as something cool but, once set up, was annoying to change around. If I gave this to Grandma, I could change the pictures often… only she doesn’t have wireless internet. I can’t see anyone that doesn’t have octogenarian status wanting one of these devices.
i’ve wanted this for a long time, but they made it SO ugly! the whole point of a digital picture frame is that you get picture variety in your living room without it looking like a radioshack display. why did they have to put that horrible bezel on it with their giant logo!? i would pick up a few of these instantly if they would have just wrapped it in a nice frame like the philips eframe.
Sam:
I definitely agree with you on the way frames are made, it is a big pain to look at since they can see so useful. I dunno how much are you into homemodding items, but if you have a knack for that kind of stuff, there are lots of home mod sites which show how you can cannabalize an old laptop for parts and build a nice looking frame.
I’ll see if I can dig it up for anyone interested.
All in all, looks nice, but a 250 price tag is pretty killer. I know there will be price drops, but products like these seem as if they’ll be priced so high for eternity because the market is so small.
Sam… just pencil in the logo or spray paint it off ;-) But I totally agree with you… your buying a picture frame to showcase your pictures, not the company who manufactured the frame. One day these guys will learn not to stick a BIG and WHITE logo onto a BLACK frame.
Jon
coool! this is really sweet. I love the ability to feed it rather than using a card or tranfering photos to it. I mean, who really keeps photos on their hd anymore…
Hey, Santa, get this for Peter. It would save him hours a day surfing for
britney crotch shotsCrunchGear topics ;)This totally blows away the generic picture-frame idea, and having over ten thousand images on my computer only makes it that much more enticing. That lable is hideous, but nothing more than what a few moments with a marker/black nailpolish won’t fix.
Price steepness aside, this sounds like a sweet product (even if you don’t use it for boobs).
Has anyone actually used this yet? I’ve not really found many reviews, and for $250 I really want to make sure it’s going to work for my non-geek parents.
$250? No thanks. I could mount a 20″ monitor on the wall with that money. Digital picture frames are getting way cooler every year but until they come down in price and get less ugly (totally with ya on the frame sam) they won’t go mainstream.
I’ve wanted one of these since they first posted plans for taking an old laptop and turning it into a frame – its getting closer by the day! The new Phillips ones are rather attactive but lack the wifi and had annoying setup issues. Hopefully someone will get the looks/performance balance right some day.
bpm if you’re serious about building a frame from an old laptop, trying running the app Slickr on it. ( http://cellardoorsw.com/?page_id=4 ). My college roommate built a frame for his girlfriend and he says Slickr was very easy for him to set up, and for her to use. It’s basically a dedicated flickr feed, much like the software used for these systems, and it’s pretty easy to adjust and update. Just remember to install the system onto your computer before you hack it to pieces…
I’ll echo the comments here. This is a cool idea but the pricepoint is still too high and honestly how hard could it be to make this pretty?
I bought it and it’s garbage. Returned within 3 days.
And they show a product on the box cover that is NOT IN THEBOX – false advertising, too!
Absolutely the ugliest pc of tech I’ve seen. And they made it uglier by putting their freaking logo on it like a big hit from a Starling flying overhead that’s eaten a bit too much birdfeed.
As soon as a nice looking wifi competitor comes out, this product is gone.