macbidouille : finally the iFrame ?

little_dudelittle_dude
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
I honestly hope that the MacBidouile insinuations point towards the Apple iFrame : a small, wireless display that autosyncs with your iPhoto library. Hang it on the wall like a picture frame, and it will swap photo's at customiseable times. Using a few simple buttons, you can set theme & subdirectory, or manually advance photos to show off family pics.



It would be an instant HIT. I'd buy one right away, and all folks with kids or grandkids would rush at it. I know my parents (3 grandkids) would be delighted : my mum has a digital camera, but is always complaining that she has to bring everyone behind the mac to show her pics. Sitting in the couch with a wireless tablet would be her dream !



I'll bet my horse that those things would sell like cream. And they fit in perfectly with the 'digital hub' concept. Release 2 models : 1 with wireless connection to your mac, perfect as a wall-frame or device to watch slideshows in the couch. Second model with firewire & internal harddisk : take your pics with you on the road. Maybe allow iFrame<->camera USB connection for direct transfer ???



Shit, this is a great idea ! I should pattent it !



Note : I ment the <a href="http://www.envestco2.com/macwhispers/archives/000041.php"; target="_blank">macwhispers</a> article, not macbidouille



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  • Reply 1 of 58
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    Sounds great, but it's hard to imagine it costing less than $500.
  • Reply 2 of 58
    little_dudelittle_dude Posts: 17member
    dunno... The only expensive part is the screen : they have to put a decent LCD in, not the 12inch powerbook thingie. Say they make a 12inch, but at better quality.



    Then again : if you consider what it costs today to have quality printouts of your photos at a 12inch resolution, you'd have your investment back pretty soon. Plus : it's way cooler, and your ohotos don't degrade or get greased/crackeled by sticky fingers.



    And comeon, just try to imagine having a small picture frame on your desk that rotates kid pics every minute. I know my wife would adore it. And for the perverts among you : it'll rotate adult photos too :-)
  • Reply 3 of 58
    t'hain esh kelcht'hain esh kelch Posts: 1,274member
    Why would you want a digital frame on the wall?



    Look at pictures on the mac, that would make much more sense...

    And each time the computer is shut down, the frame is blank!
  • Reply 4 of 58
    matt amatt a Posts: 9member
    I don't think it would go blank. That would just be silly. Chances are that IF this thing does come out it will probably have some storage built in (5 gig drive maybe?) so that it can keep the pictures in memory and continue displaying them based on your last preference settings. Once the Mac is booted up again it will continue with it's syncronization and go from there. I think this thing would be awfully sweet if they ever did it. But whose to say we have to wait for Apple. Let someone else do it first.
  • Reply 5 of 58
    drewpropsdrewprops Posts: 2,321member
    This would have been an innovative idea if we hadn't been talking about it here for at least 18 months. There's a thread like this about every four months. BUT, you only have 4 posts to your screen name, so you couldn't have known that.



    It was alway a nifty idea though!
  • Reply 6 of 58
    henriokhenriok Posts: 537member
    I _really_ hope that Apple doesn't make an iFrame product. Who'd use it? Maybe if I hade 10-20 of them, but just one? It's pretty uselss imo. I certainly won't buy one.
  • Reply 7 of 58
    os10geekos10geek Posts: 413member
    I dunno...it isn't funcional enough for Apple to make. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> What happened to printing a photo and framing it? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">



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  • Reply 8 of 58
    little_dudelittle_dude Posts: 17member
    [quote]Originally posted by Henriok:

    <strong>I _really_ hope that Apple doesn't make an iFrame product. Who'd use it? Maybe if I hade 10-20 of them, but just one? It's pretty uselss imo. I certainly won't buy one.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    whow often do you snap photos ? Do you have kids/grandkids ? How often do you take a filmroll to town ? Trust me : if you have kids age 0 to 6, and a digital camera, you take a dozen pics a day. I know I do, and many of my collegues who have kids the same age also snap away all the time. Getting this stuff sorted out on print is cumbersome : prints get lost, disordered, and when you want to show some pics to visitors, your set is a mess. I for one know that I could never keep them in albums : I'm not an orderly type, and plus : I take way to many pics.



    On the oter hand, I do keep my digital pics pretty well sorted with iPhoto. The only issue is, that when someone comes along, they have to come with my to my iMac in another room. Not very social : no good seats, no salon table, often not heated. And placing the imac on the living room is not an option.



    if I could get the iFrame, connect to my iMac and select an iPhoto album, we could chitchat in the livingroom, passing along and viewing only those pics that are best. A feature could be they mark some pics to be emailed to them (say for instance if their children are on it).



    IMHO, the possibilities are HUGE.
  • Reply 9 of 58
    vinney57vinney57 Posts: 1,162member
    Yeah, its got to be iFrame. Its not for hanging on walls but for handing around and presenting off. It ain't going to be cheap (but then that never hurt the iPod).



    Personally I hope for a full compliment of ports to make it useful in corporate land as well.

    Firewire, USB, PC Card (for camera memory cards) Airport Outrageous, video out, 40gig 1.8" drive, 640.480 screen. Perhaps Apple could relax their vice-like grip on the API's so that 3rd parties can think up 'cool stuff'.



    I don't care how much it costs.
  • Reply 10 of 58
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    little_dude: dozens a DAY?!
  • Reply 11 of 58
    fatmac84fatmac84 Posts: 67member
    iShot?
  • Reply 12 of 58
    drewpropsdrewprops Posts: 2,321member
    hehehehe

    Little_dude sounds as impassioned about this idea as I was when I started the same thread a long, long time ago.



    I actually already OWN an iFrame. Some people call it an iBook. Thanks .Mac!
  • Reply 13 of 58
    lazzyass86lazzyass86 Posts: 33member
    This makes a lot of sense.



    Macwispers.com reported that the company that makes all the plastics for Apple has been manufacturing a 5x7x1 enclosure with a crap load of ports.



    <a href="http://www.envestco2.com/macwhispers/archives/000041.php"; target="_blank">Link!</a> <img src="confused.gif" border="0">



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  • Reply 14 of 58
    - j b 7 2 -- j b 7 2 - Posts: 201member
    For some reason, I get the idea that this enclosure, assuming it's real, is a FW 800 drive enclosure.



    It's 5x7x1. Wouldn't that be about right for two 3.5" drives side by side? FW 800 would allow for a nice little single cable software RAID. My thinking is that this would help bumpstart the FW 800 market. Two drives in one case, over 40MB/s, plug and go. I'd buy that.
  • Reply 15 of 58
    dgmvwdgmvw Posts: 54member
    [quote]Originally posted by Lazzyass86:

    <strong>This makes a lot of sense.



    Macwispers.com reported that the company that makes all the plastics for Apple has been manufacturing a 5x7x1 enclosure with a crap load of ports.



    <a href="http://www.envestco2.com/macwhispers/archives/000041.php"; target="_blank">Link!</a> :confused:



    [ 03-03-2003: Message edited by: Lazzyass86 ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I saw this a little while ago...I wonder if this might be the video iPod that we were all talking about before MacWorld.
  • Reply 16 of 58
    aslan^aslan^ Posts: 599member
    A company called digi frame (www.digi-frame.com) makes digital picture frames. That took me all of about two seconds to find on google and was the first search I did, Im sure there are other companys with this kind of product. Apple should stick to making quality computers and software.
  • Reply 17 of 58
    kedakeda Posts: 722member
    [quote] Why would you want a digital frame on the wall? <hr></blockquote>



    LOL, exactly what I was thinking.
  • Reply 18 of 58
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    am i the only one that thinks dozens a day is alot?
  • Reply 19 of 58
    willoughbywilloughby Posts: 1,457member
    [quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:

    <strong>am i the only one that thinks dozens a day is alot?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    No, that sounds like a lot to me too. My siblings and in-laws all have young kids and they don't take that many pics at christmas! heh



    I don't even think I know photography students that take that many pics EVERY day.



    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 20 of 58
    little_dudelittle_dude Posts: 17member
    [quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:

    <strong>am i the only one that thinks dozens a day is alot?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    okay, sorry, maybe I exagerated a bit. But there are days that I take 20 pics in a row. I have a Canon camera with a 1GB microdrive. I have no idea how many pics fit on 1GB, but I haven't reached that limit yet. So when the kids are outside playing in the sand, I just snap away. Sometimes I feel like filming instead of photographing :-)



    When the kids are in bed, I download the pics to my iMac, quickly browse through them and keep the best ones. The rest go in the thrash. If I had to use printouts, I'd be broke :-)
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