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Ceiva Internet-Enable Photo Frame...

Posted March 28, 2000 3:45 PM.

Possibly the most futurist gadget I have seen in months is the Ceiva Internet-Enabled Photo Frame. It sounds like a ridiculous idea, but I honestly believe that it might become a must-have purchase not just for web-geeks and their families, but also for small spaces in nightclubs and bars. It's really the simplest thing - a small, high quality screen which plugs into the phone socket. Every day, at cheap rate, it dials up a server where your friends have e-mailed their latest photos of their children, their holidays or their genitals, the images are downloaded and displayed in a rotating slideshow. You can choose specific images to display through the website if you have favourites, and you can update them more quickly simply by pressing a button on the frame.

The potential for bloggers is endless. Imagine being on an Evhead, megnut or powazek image mailing list, which would update the frame on your desk every day...

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