Digital Foci stuffs a digiframe into a keychain

Nah, this isn't the first pocket-friendly digiframe we've seen, but for those who prefer keychains over wallets, it's not a half bad option. Digital Foci's Pocket Album features a 1.5-inch 128 x 128 resolution color screen, nine hours of battery life, manual / automatic scroll modes and OS X / Windows compatibility. Furthermore, users can recharge the unit with a simple USB cable, and there's even a built-in clock if you happen to forget your wristwatch. Unfortunately, there's only 8MB of internal storage, but then again, what did you expect for just $39.95?

[Via Gearlog]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 3:25AM]

"Unfortunately" there's only 8mb? For a 128 x 128 screen? So each image is going to be what 4kb, so you can "only" hold 2000 pictures. Awww...bummer...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 11th 2007 9:00AM]

Hey ding dong, think of the concept that allows your 8 megapixel image to be displayed on your digital camera's 2" LCD. Would you sit there and resize all your photos down to 128 x 128, or just drop the file from your computer directly onto the device?

In any case, these things are craptacular. I've seen them at Sharper Image, and the dpi is terrible.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 3:36AM]

Doesn't Brookstone already sell this exact same thing?

http://www.brookstone.com/store/product.asp?product_code=571661&wid=11&cid=1102&sid=110202&search_type=subcategory&prodtemp=t1

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 12:37PM]

Yeah, but only for the past 2 to 3 years. Apparently this is still fresh gadget news.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 5:53AM]

I paid 10 Euros each shipped for a couple of these that i found from a Hong kong seller on EBay..

they are actually pretty cool.. with a handy interface that shrinks the photos for you...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 7:51AM]

can this "news" be older? Office Depot in Canada have been selling similar items for the past year.

[smcquade Posted Oct 10th 2007 8:25AM]

8hrs battery life?!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 9:20AM]

hopefully u can switch it off while it's in your pocket :)

128x128 @ 24bit is a 48k uncompressed bitmap :) but, yup, more like 4k as a jpeg. (i mean kB)

[Wwhat Posted Oct 10th 2007 10:33AM]

They sell these at toystores here, I think for 15 bucks, but they seem to try to dump their last stock of them.
Seems a cute concept to me, only the battery issue is a bit annoying I imagine, perhaps they should add a solar panel to increase batterylife or something because this isn't the kind of product you'd be inclined to dedicate such attention to as to recharge it twice a day.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 11:01AM]

Great, so now in addition to my cellphone, notebook, blackberry, and headset I can now also forget to charge my keychain every night.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 12:36PM]

Hmmm... several GB flash drive, with a picture frame built into it, which could then charge when I had it plugged into my computer... that would be useful.

But, just for showing pictures? I can do that with my cellphone, pda, Flickr account, or pretty much any other digital device... seems rather useless, to me. And, for $40? Dude, just go get a 2GB flash drive, and show them your pictures at a computer terminal.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 10:57PM]

OK, 1.5" display at probably 72ppi. Couldn't you fit like probably 40 photos on 8MB with that size display?

SG

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2007 11:55AM]

Maybe for the first few days this thing would be nice, but then? It really has no use.

Personally, I don't want to spend time in trying to understand how my keychain works.

http://www.digital-photo-frame-market.info

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2007 6:03PM]

Cute toy, but why make it a keychain?

Keys+Screen=Scratches