eStarling WiFi Digital Photo Frame: a photo frame with its own email address

With digital cameras becoming smaller, cheaper and capable of taking photos at ever increasing resolutions there has been an explosion in digital photography recently. The problem is that the vast majority of digital photos taken never get to see the light of day. This is because they are simply left sitting on a PC hard drive or memory card gathering digital dust.

Digital photo frames offer the perfect solution to this problem by allowing you to dust down your digital photo collection and give it a proper airing. Afterall, despite your best intentions to do so, you're never really going to get around to spring cleaning your photo collection and compiling CDs of your best efforts, are you?

However...just when you thought that owning a digital photo frame was the pinnacle of uber geekdom, along comes the eStarling WiFi Digital Photo Frame. As its name suggests, this stylish frame uses WiFi to automatically update itself using feeds from a range of well known photo sharing sites. But that's not all...

If you register the eStarling you get a dedicated email address so you, your friends and your family can send pictures directly to the frame from their PC, PDA or mobile phone. No subscription fee is required. Once set up, you won't have to lift a finger because the frame checks for new mail every few minutes and places any photos it receives into rotation in a slideshow format.

You can limit email access to your frame by only allowing pictures from specific email addresses to be displayed so you don't have to worry about your picture frame trying to sell you Viagra.

With wireless on the device the possibilities become mind-boggling:

• give one to your mum and dad so that they can receive regularly updated photos from friends and family living anywhere in the world and receive the first photos of their new grandchild as soon as he/she is born.
• give one to your wife, log on to eStarling's portal site a few weeks before your anniversary and Schedule a dozen photos of roses to appear, as if by magic, on your anniversary day.
• give one to your husband to put on his desk at work so that he can receive photos of his child's smiling face moments after winning his or her race.
• choose keywords from photo sharing sites and have a "theme" going on your frame e.g. landscapes, cityscapes, sunsets, gothic architechture etc...

Heck!...you can even send text messages to the picture frame.

With sleek lines and smooth textures the eStarling frame looks great in any home or office. And with a simple one time set-up this makes a great gift for even the non-tech-savvy. Infact, as all the settings can be controlled via the web, should your parents want to change the settings on their frame you need not pay them a visit as you can make all the necessary changes for them from the comfort of your own home.

Please Note: In order to use the WiFi capability of the eStarling frame, the owner must have access to a wireless broadband connection. Without a WiFi connection the frame simply operates as a normal one would.

Reestit Mutton, 30 Nov 2007