A picture frame that uses RSS
You are sitting at your desk or in your living room just savoring the moment and across the corner of your eye you see the picture frame flicker. It moved or at least the picture has changed. And then you look up and the picture has indeed change. No, your eyes are not deceiving you and nor is your imagination on over drive. You are probably looking at the 17 inch WideScreen Digital Picture Frame from PhotoVue.
But, what makes it interesting aside from its lofty price tag of $699.00 ?
It comes with integrated software that allows you to manage photos and RSS feeds.
The PhotoVu’s built-in software makes it easy to manage all aspects of your digital picture frame. There’s no software to install on your computer, just open your favorite web browser and type in the PhotoVu’s name or IP address! From there you can manage slideshow options, integrate with photo management software and RSS feeds, and control options such as start time and end time for the PhotoVu to start up and shut off![Source]
The picture frame’s bundled software and technology allows one, via RSS, to recieve photos from the top Internet photo-sharing portals like: flickr™, Google™ Picasa™ Web Albums, Apple® iPhoto® & .Mac, and SmugMug™.
Aside from that the other Internet enabled features are:
PhotoVu AutoFeed™ Configuration allows you to configure Photo Feeds on your
PhotoVu then send your USB Storage Drive to another PhotoVu user. Once they plug it into their PhotoVu, it starts to work immediately with no additional steps.
PhotoVu SmartSync™ Support synchronizes with SmugMug and iPhoto 6 Photocasts. If photos are added/deleted within an album, the changes will be reflected the next time RSS feeds are updated.
Set times to play your digital frame feeds using the scheduling feature.
Automatic Image Sizing using PhotoVu SmartResize™ to optimize each photo for full screen display.
Real-time View allows you to see new photos first after the RSS Feeds are updated.
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Expensive but interesting stuff. It makes one wonder what other things could be made possible? Commercial billboards that run on RSS feeds or even picture frames on library walls functioning as readers or even digital players accepting the latest information or data. Interesting stuff.
Maybe it will become cheaper in a few years.
