Showing posts with label digital photo frames. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital photo frames. Show all posts

Friday, June 27, 2008

Pandigital Kitchen Technology Center

Pandigital is hoping you're looking to update your kitchen technology with a little of their technology. Back in March, they announced their latest foray into digital frames is going to involve a 15-inch LCD touchscreen, 720p HDTV, and recipe database.

The Kitchen Technology Center, or KTC arrives on your countertop pre-loaded with the hundreds of recipes, a music/picture player, and calendar/clock. The calendar function allows you to program the frame to start a slide show at 2pm, bring up a recipe and play you a song at 4pm, or just remind you "Emerald" is on.

Of course being that it's an offering from a Pandigital, it also accepts every digital camera card you can think of...

Worried about operating a sensitive piece of technology when you have messy fingers? The KTC touch screen is a mess-proof design that is easy to clean. Sealed with glass, it is protected from water, oil, flour and other common ingredients, as well as from spills and splatters.

Other niceties are - the included countertop stand, an under-cabinet mount, and flat panels are also wall-mountable, so you can position the KTC where you’ll need it most. Interchangeable faceplates in brushed stainless, black, and white let you match your kitchen’s décor.

Centralized control over the entire array of kitchen appliances has been a promise of consumerism since the Fifties, these frames are the first widely available system that actually presents the idea to homemakers in a way they can use now. I could easily see something like the KTC controlling the kitchen one of these days... when blenders, refrigerators, and ovens learn to communicate with one another.

June was the proposed release, but it doesn't look like that's happening.

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Pandigital Touch Panel Digital Photo Frames: PanTouch

PanTouch Digital Touch Screen Picture FrameTouch screens have been making their way into all types of devices lately, so it stands to reason that digital photo frames manufactures would eventually get into the touch interface game. Frames are usually with reach anyway, on our desk or sitting on an end table.

Remotes have worked up until now, but this added tactile aspect makes viewing photos in these frames reminiscent of flipping through album pages.

Pandigital, in May, will debut their new PanTouch series touch panel digital photo frames. Now if you’re like me you might be thinking, wouldn’t a touch screen picture frame mean fingerprints over the pictures? Wouldn’t the pictures be affected? Of course, this was considered.

Wisely, the matte around the pictures is where the touch sensor resides. The patented sensor responses to swipes or taps, and display icons point out all function controls for reference, if needed. Intuitiveness was a goal in this frame's development so learning the controls placement is reportedly a quick process.

PanTouches will be available in three flavors all of which incorporate image optimization (resizing) software, 6-in-1 memory card reader, and USB 2.0 speed:

  • 7”, 482x234 pixel display, holds up to 800 images, MSRP 119.99
  • 8”, 800x680 pixel display, holds up to 3200 images, MSRP 169.99
  • 10.5”, 1024x768 pixel HD display, holds up to 2000 images, MSRP 249.99

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Digital Frame that also Prints Photos

Hybrid Devices, Photography

Prinics Printer Frame When you see that favored snapshot of your loved ones flash across the screen of a digital photo frame, how many times have you thought "I should really print that shot out and send it to my great aunt"? Printing it never happens. It stays locked in the virtual world never to reflect the light of the day. If only that great aunt of yours would get up to speed and get online.

The torrent of hybrid devices just keeps cascading. Prinics’ newest offspring of the ravishing relationship between a photo printer and a digital photo frame was given a thorough photo spread today. Thanks Jason.

..via Gizmodo..
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