Giant International's touchscreen Intouch IT7150 photo frame: disembodied hand not included

Not that we'd expect any reputable digital picture frame manufacturer to consort with a real, live hand model, but we've gotta hand it to Giant International for discovering this particularly unnatural, eerily glowing appendage to point vaguely at its new Intouch IT7150. Lucky for us, the device in question is not at all cheap and uninviting, featuring a 7-inch 800 x 480 LCD touchscreen, 802.11b/g WiFi, USB to PC connection cable and the standard complement of memory card slots. What makes this particularly fun is vTuner support, which allows for play back of 11,000 radio and TV stations (primarily public access and other undesirables on the TV side), in addition to the increasingly standard FrameChannel service for photo sharing and RSS subscriptions. There's also a built-in rechargeable battery for about 1.5 hours of portable use. At $349, you're certainly paying a pretty penny for all these good times, but if vTuner isn't your bag, you can drop that support and pick up the frame for $299.

[Via Digital Picture Frame Review]

[??? @ Nov 19th 2008 4:57PM]

What? No disembodied hand?

That was the whole selling point for me!

They just lost a customer. Hmph.

[ugg.tryptophan @ Nov 19th 2008 7:30PM]

and it glows too, bummer

[Shoumik @ Nov 19th 2008 4:57PM]

ay-yo, that's pretty fly...

[Evangelion @ Nov 19th 2008 4:58PM]

Looks pretty good. =]

[StalematE @ Nov 19th 2008 4:58PM]

after they sell a couple of these, i'm sure they will be able to afford a hand model... $300?

[kjb434 @ Nov 19th 2008 5:01PM]

Is the digital picture frame business really this big?

I keep only a set few pictures frames that I only put the important (family/friends) in. Then the loads of other pictures are just online and on my computer for people to browse if they like.

[huh @ Nov 19th 2008 5:02PM]

This is just the start of the touch screen "photo frames," which will eventually become a smart controller for your home.

[PG @ Nov 19th 2008 5:03PM]

"but if vTuner isn't your bag"

You mean "but if vTuner isn't your bag of hurt" :D

[Graham @ Nov 19th 2008 5:04PM]

Crap! I really wanted that hand too.

[Najakwa @ Nov 19th 2008 5:09PM]

Its a best practice to stay away from glowing hands unless you have a Geiger counter.

[Rekit @ Nov 19th 2008 5:12PM]

Apparently someone likes to play with layer styles. And apparently that person should be working at Arby's.

[Brandon @ Nov 19th 2008 5:18PM]

I think the more likely situation is they suck at photoshop and weren't able to crop the hand off of a white background onto a black background, so they just added a glow to cover it up!

[Lowest Ranked @ Nov 19th 2008 5:49PM]

-Double-Click layer
-Select Outer Glow
-Leave it at the shitty defaults

[Rekit @ Nov 19th 2008 6:22PM]

@Lowest Ranked:

That's a layer style

[Lowest Ranked @ Nov 19th 2008 7:45PM]

Yes, I believe thats what you stated in your original post.

[nonsense @ Nov 19th 2008 5:40PM]

As good as it may look if you look at the price does it make sense to buy this frame. Why not simply buy a used laptop and enclose it in a shadow box:
http://www.thewares.net/item/33

[ch4s3r @ Nov 19th 2008 5:56PM]

So if one was interested in a disembodied hand where might we go?

[S @ Nov 19th 2008 6:21PM]

It will be nice when someone hacks it and you can use it to add a nice extra touchscreen monitor to your desktop, instead of spending the better part of $1000 on that Art Lebedov thing.

[WhyFi @ Nov 19th 2008 7:03PM]

It would be nice when this bugger busts out of Korea -
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/nanovisions-mimo-7-inch-displays-are-strangely-cute-sort-of-us/

[Exninja @ Nov 20th 2008 12:07PM]

ummmmm..... sticky fingerprints all over my beautiful photos :(

[ronben_technology @ Nov 21st 2008 12:57AM]

wow, 299 bucks, smart consumers would rather buy 5 pieces of 7" LCD digital photo picture frames with resolution 800x480.

7" LCD digital photo picture frames with resolution 800x480

[RONBEN_technology @ Nov 21st 2008 1:05AM]

http://www.ronbenmultimedia.com/product/7_inch_digital_photo_frame_with_digital_TFT_Panel_800_480_pixels.htm