Add photo effects. That’s the answer to “what else can we do to a digital photo frame to make it more interesting?” Casio’s new Digital Art Frame separates itself from the rest of the pack not by adding internet connectivity (which is the answer to “what would be the most unnecessary feature we can add to a digital photo frame to make it needlessly expensive?”), but by adding a “Snapshot-to-painting conversion” function.
“The Digital Art Frame adds personalization and artistic integrity to your conventional digital photo frame,” said Toshiharu Okimuro, Chairman of Casio America, Inc. Okay, we don’t really understand where or how “artistic integrity” comes into the figurative picture, but here’s what it does: you take a photo, load it onto the frame using a number of available means (via card slots, USB, or Wi-fi), and choose an art/style preset using the on-board controls to be applied to the photo. The frame comes with up to eight different style presets, including Water Color Painting, Color Pencil Sketch, Pastel Painting, Pointillism, Air Brush, Oil Painting, Gothic Oil Painting, and Fauvist Oil Painting–it might not help much with crappy photos, but at least they’ll be a little bit more interesting.
The Digital Art Frame lets you choose from different style overlays to turn your photos into photo-art. We just call 'em "pharts" for short.
The frame also comes with “superior” facial recognition technology that highlights facial characteristics without messing up the photo of your mom’s face. Casio’s Dynamic Photo function (which usually goes into their digicams) allows you to create composite moving images. This feature, coupled with the Art Dynamic Photo function, lets you create “moving works of art”—like those old stop-motion animation episodes of Gumby, but more “artistic.” The frame also supports Adobe Flash Lite playback, allowing it to display flash content, such as clocks and calendars.
The frame itself is a 10.2-inch wide LCD that comes with integrated stereo speakers (for adding music to the slideshows) and 2GBs of internal memory for storing media. Wireless connectivity is available, although we still do believe that this is a little unnecessary for these devices—it’s really not that hard to plug in a media card or USB flash drive anyway.
Casio’s artsy frame is expected to ship sometime in Spring, 2010.
Tags: Casio, Digital Displays, Digital Home, Digital Photo Frames
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