While I do agree on that the function is ment to be for pictures so all other gadgets add little value there is a market for people who want more then just a picture frame. Most likely price-wise this frame can´t compete anyways with just the ussual frame as these extra gimmicks will cost additional money. I for one are kind of interested in this if it could combine a picture frame together with an agenda/weather/security viewer. Don´t get me wrong, sure pictures are fun but I spend more time a day looking at what I´m supposed todo.
JZ... so again, is this really a picture frame or something else that happens to show pictures now and then?
Picture frames (even "traditional" frames for old fashioned paper pictures) are such they sit in the background in our homes and offices gently presenting to us and sharing with us images of past moments that mean so much to us.
Do people want to fiddle, futz and get greasy fingerprints on another gadget with functions that a computer, or better yet, a cell phone can do?
If picture showing is to be the primary function of the form (remember "form follows function") then I believe these over designed forms are not true digital picture frames. But what are they?
Be it perceived as "simplistic," at CEIVA, picture display is the primary function we honor in our forms.
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Are they "breaking the mold" or snuffing out the digital frame's true purpose?
Are the engineers that designed this thinking that just because it has a video screen it needs to be stuffed full of a lot of gadgetry?
At what point do a manufacture stuff a frame so full that it no longer becomes a digital frame and becomes something else?
I can not help but think of 2 famous principals of GOOD design.
"LESS IS MORE"
"FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION"
I am not sure this "gadget" adheres to these basic design principals... especially if they really want to call this a digital picture frame.
CeivaJoe
www.viewpointframed.com
While I do agree on that the function is ment to be for pictures so all other gadgets add little value there is a market for people who want more then just a picture frame. Most likely price-wise this frame can´t compete anyways with just the ussual frame as these extra gimmicks will cost additional money. I for one are kind of interested in this if it could combine a picture frame together with an agenda/weather/security viewer. Don´t get me wrong, sure pictures are fun but I spend more time a day looking at what I´m supposed todo.
JZ... so again, is this really a picture frame or something else that happens to show pictures now and then?
Picture frames (even "traditional" frames for old fashioned paper pictures) are such they sit in the background in our homes and offices gently presenting to us and sharing with us images of past moments that mean so much to us.
Do people want to fiddle, futz and get greasy fingerprints on another gadget with functions that a computer, or better yet, a cell phone can do?
If picture showing is to be the primary function of the form (remember "form follows function") then I believe these over designed forms are not true digital picture frames. But what are they?
Be it perceived as "simplistic," at CEIVA, picture display is the primary function we honor in our forms.
CeivaJoe
www.viewpointframed.com