The KeyPix Digital Picture Keychain

Not sure why you'd pay fifty bucks to look at digital photos on something which has a smaller screen and less memory than your cellphone, but Ritz Camera is carrying the KeyPix, a "Digital Picture Keychain" with a low-quality one-inch LCD screen and a scant 512KB (that's kilobytes, people) of memory. This must either be old, grossly overpriced, or both.

[Thanks, TIMMAH!]

[Mark @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

They should up the memory to 1024k and add the ability to play mp3s. That'd ruin Apple.

[PixelBrat.com @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

I could MAYBE see a company GIVING these away as a promotional item or something... but $50 for that? Insane.

[WoollyMittens @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

For half the price it'd make a great novelty item. They should add the function to record a few seconds of sound to go with the mugshot.

Yes it's overpriced, but it's a change from the dozens of portable movie players that get rammed down our throats at the moment.

[carson @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

I'm sorry I think i missed what the first post was trying to say. Add mp3 functionality to a 1 meg keychain? Awesome concept you win a free month of aol. please stay there.

[Chris K @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

You don't need much storage for a 12-bit 96x48 screen. It says right on the product page it stores 56 images. More than enough for something like this.

A while ago I bought a Dazzle CF reader with built-in RCA video out for slideshows on your TV. I used an old 32MB with it, and had more storage than I could ever use. I just dumped all my images on the card at 640x480. Each image was 300 images.

Before that, I had a Microsoft Photo Viewer, which did the same thing with floppies. Compressing the images a bit further gave me 30-some images on a floppy.

Now I use XBMC on my XBox, pointing it directly at my pictures share on the network. The P3 processor in the XBox makes short work of even 6MPixel images. :)

[fra @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

My phone has about that size, probably less.. but my mobile/cell is just a basic 'pre-3G' phone (O2 X1i)

[Will @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

*waits patiently for Paris Hilton's keys to get stolen*

[chris @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

rofl @ #4

[Stephen Crosby @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

Not that its a great deal, but seriously see if you can design and manufacture 1,000 of these at much less than $50/unit

[Sari Z @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

I recently purchased the keychain for my mothers birthday and one for myself. They are really cool for what they do. I think the screen could be a little bigger for the size of the keychain. The bottem button doesn't work very well but it might just be my particular device. My mother hasn't opened hers yet to compare it to.