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May 28th, 2007 · Posted by Skuds in Technology · 1 Comment · Technology

I have been having some fun with a new toy this weekend.

We have had Jayne's oldest daughter staying with us and she is expecting a child in a couple of months.  In anticipation of there being hundreds if not thousands of baby photos, I treated her to one of those digital photo frames.

There was an ulterior motive or two – I wanted to play around with one, and I thought it would give Jayne something to want for her birthday, so I will a clue about what to get her this year.

Anyway, it is a nice little toy.  No doubt they will be available cheaply with very high-resolution in a year or so, at the moment the affordable ones have  a fairly low resolution.  The upside of this is that you can shrink photos down to smaller file sizes and still display them OK, which means you can fit thousands on a 2Gb memory card.

The novelty of these frames will wear off soon, but when it does they could become common fixtures in the house.  I can imagine every desk having one before long. 

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  • Gert

    We were discussing these at work the other day, and I pointed out that on my lappy my screensaver I have a constantly changing array of pictures. When I went to my Mum’s she drank a couple of glasses of wine and began concocting hilarious stories as if she believed the random order was actually a narrative…