02. 28. 2006
MyPix
Looking at photo albums is a regular activity at my house, but since all our photos are digital now, I've been thinking about purchasing one of those digital picture frames. I'm not really a fan of those because I love photoalbums (but who has time to print and arrange anymore?), but my toddler loves looking at digital photos, so much so that it's impossible to take pictures of her because as soon as she sees the digital camera, she races over to see the photo on the LCD screen, argh...
MyPix might be something I'd consider because it's relatively cheap and built for kids so hopefully that means it can withstand all the banging and dropping. It's pretty small at an inch and a quarter viewing screen, but it's meant to be taken anywhere and you can even wear it as a necklace. It holds 30 pictures and comes with interchangeable frames. I don't love how it looks, but if I made all my purchases that way, we wouldn't have half the crap that we have.
Available at Fingerhut.
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Available elsewhere as well. Personally, I think I'd pay the extra $15 to not buy from Fingerhut. :)
And there, they say 1.4", which is still small, but hey, 25% bigger than 1.25". Oh, and they have the full manual, so more specs are: actual screen size 3.5cm (1.38") and full dimensions are 58×56×19mm (2.3"×2.2"×0.75"). Has 4MB of built-in memory.
I wonder about the computer interface -- probably they've done some stupid proprietary thing, making it useless on MacOS or Linux. The manual references "SPCP825 USB to UART" and the driver for that -- apparently that's the interface chip. Which leads me to the taiwanese manufacturer of the embedded controller, which is about as far as I'm going with this today. :)
Posted by: Matthew Miller | February 28, 2006 9:39 AM