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Wifi Photo Frames
FrameChannel is a free web service that allows you to manage content on your wireless picture frame. From their website:
Once you set your frame up with FrameChannel and subscribe to channels of your choice, your frame will automatically update when changes to these feeds are made. For example, you will be able to see your new flickr pictures on your wireless frame as soon as they are updated on your flickr account!
Actually, you had me at wireless picture frame. I had been waiting for such a thing a while back and now it seems like a number of WiFi capable digital photo frames have emerged on the market. The company lists the variety of wireless and other picture frames their service can work with here.
The other thing that caught my eye is the statement:
Friends and family can contribute content directly to your frame, updating family photos in real time.
This feature is actually of great interest to me as it is an application I envisioned earlier this year when I was trying to help my father set up and use a digital photo frame. My father has always been mechanically gifted but has little desire to log onto a computer or the Internet. The prospect of getting him to further somehow transfer digital photos to his frame is just a non-starter. So the only option that left me with is occasionally sending an SD card of photos by snailmail. It would be nice, I thought, if I was somehow able to get his computer to transfer incoming photos to the digital frame automatically. It seemed like it would be easy enough to piece together the necessary software bits, but they would depend on having the necessary WiFi or Bluetooth wireless capability in the photo frame.
Fortunately, the emergence of WiFi photo frames from various vendors means I won't have to do this nontrivial hardware hack of a digital photo frame, and now thanks to FrameChannel I won't even have to write the software. I will definitely be shopping for a couple of these WiFi frames in the near future and giving FrameChannel's service a test drive.
Of course, the fact that FrameChannel has tackled the main applications for this just means that I am now free to consider less obvious Ubicomp applications of the technology.
rk
Sony Creates Massive PS3 Cluster
I had no good reason to blog about this story, except that I want one--in fact, I am creating an "i want one" tag" as a result.
From engadget, Sony has assembled a server cluster of so many PS3 systems that apparently no-one is bothering to count just how many there are. Not exactly like a supercomputer cluster such as Beowulf, the server cluster is targeted for dedicated Warhawk gaming, allowing users to host their own Warhawk server in the cluster environment and thereby eliminating latency issues that would normally be encountered when gaming over the Internet cloud.
My son would be crushed if he sees this, as he is still waiting for his single PS3.