Thursday, August 27, 2009

WonderMedia and Windows 7 provide photo frame of the future

Do you have a digital photo frame on a shelf somewhere in the house? Most people have them somewhere prominant in the lounge room and they plug them in before guests arrive so that they silently shuffle through happy snaps in the background, starting conversations and bringing forth memories. Of course they only show what you have put on them already, or what's on the USB stick sticking out the side. Windows 7 has a new feature called "Play To" which, so far as I understand, means that your Windows 7 PC or notebook can be told to show it's photos and/or videos to a wirelessly connected device in range. The WonderMedia SmartFrame is the first digital photo frame to have this support, having been awarded the Windows 7 Logo. And there's more:
"That gives the SmartFrame more than just a fancy sticker to mess up its clean bezel with, though; it means that it’s perfectly placed to use Windows 7’s “Play To” feature which allows PC users to funnel content to different displays with a simple click. The SmartFrame can show onboard video, photos and audio, or stream it from a DLNA compatible local network source; however it will also play internet-based content such as video, games, email and newsfeeds."-Slashgear

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