Kogan's Twitter reading, Facebook browsing digiframe

Let's face it: digital picture frames are kind of lame. But companies seem to think that if they keep throwing more features at us we're going to suddenly decide that we actually want an extra 800 x 600 display that does nothing but flash pictures of the yokels we were escaping when we hitchhiked out of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, at the tender age of 16. To that end, Kogan's 8-inch WiFi LCD digiframe packs in a number of tricks we've seen before, and a few we haven't: it accepts photos via email, RSS feeds, Flickr, and Facebook. Email pics to a central address and see them displayed on a group of these things. The free SeeFrame app for iPhone even lets you send images directly from your handset. Or if Twitter's your bag, you can apparently view your feed on the thing as well. Sound great? All this can be yours for a not-so-cool AUD $169 (about $139 in the States). Now all you need are some friends -- friends with digital cameras (or access to a scanner). Sadly, not even Kogan can help you there.

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[Joe @ Jun 23rd 2009 10:57AM]

Nice touch with the picture there!

[Keith @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:22AM]

Agreed.

[iphonerulez @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:12PM]

Why did you have to use a photo with two dead old male geezers? Coulda used a photo from The View with some nice living female geezers, namely Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg.

[warrrennnnn @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:42PM]

iPhonerulez, that's utterly disrespectful.

[Idlemind @ Jun 23rd 2009 10:58AM]

even this frame cant keep those guys alive...

[WaterHand @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:01AM]

Ed died today. :(

[Idlemind @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:03AM]

yeah, those infomercials were the beginning of the end...

[bighap @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:06AM]

R.I.P. Ed

[kjb434 @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:17AM]

Next thing you know these picture frames will just become touch screen netbooks or laptops and the pictures slide show is just a screensaver!

[Funke, Tobias Dr. @ Jun 23rd 2009 4:27PM]

Agreed.

[NOCknock @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:21AM]

Kogan knows best

[Heavytoka @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:23AM]

Pass, esp for 169 bucks

[aeth @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:23AM]

This is $169 of our Australian dollars. To you Americans this would be peanuts.

[Funke, Tobias Dr. @ Jun 23rd 2009 4:30PM]

I think we can both agree that our dollars are better than Kiwis.

[crawdad689 @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:29AM]

pass. at least until it has a touchscreen OLED with widget/app support. Oh, and until it's made by Apple.

[dkarageo @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:37AM]

RIP Ed. Hi-yooooo!

[jason w @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:38AM]

RIP ED. Thanks for the funny!

[Ricky @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:01PM]

I don't think they are lame I think they are expensive. Too expensive.

[Chris Lynch @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:13PM]

I own two of these frames and I love it. I owned the eStarling version though.

I currently own a total of THREE of their frames (one first gen photo, two second gen video/twitter frames) and I love them all. They have glitches, but I can update them for my parents and friends even when I live in another state.

My parents LOVE the frame and when they come home they can see new photos/videos that I put on there.

To be honest, I don't know why these frames aren't getting more press. They are great for the price and much more useful than those boring frames that just play static memory or cards. Plus, I set them up for my un-tech-savy friends and family and I can remotely control them (I can turn the frame on and off, I can upload/delete photos, even control playlists and twitter securely).

[Michael Hainsworth @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:19PM]

RUN from this frame. I have a SeeFrame-based older model sitting on my desk and it's terrible. It requires WiFi to know when to turn off and if the signal is lost, it freaks out. The RSS, email access -- nothing is frame-based, tying you to the SeeFrame site. Their customer support is unintelligible.

If this frame is anything like mine, it's garbage.

[ArtC @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:03PM]

Ahhh, Come On! Ed died this morning.

Hope you're enjoying that gold plated toilet in the sky, my friend.

[UK31337 @ Jun 23rd 2009 6:02PM]

Hmm... the level of Facebook is acceptable. It can accept photos from Facebook which is fine by me, but be careful which pictures :D

The title had me thinking that this thing allowed you full access to Facebook and Twitter as well as being a digital photo frame, which would for me at least have led to a Fail Salad with a sidehelping of Facepalm.

[Jason @ Jun 23rd 2009 8:18PM]

Looks almost identical to the eStarling Impact series of internet enabled frames.

[tommy @ Jul 5th 2009 10:06PM]

As an alternative, you can just use your iphone with a stand as the digiframe.
Take a look at TwitterTime (http://personatap.com/twittertime) is a "hands free" tweet watcher.