Digital Photo Frames From Smartparts and Siren

Heard of digital photo frames? Courtesy of Smartparts and Siren, these are a beauty to place on in your living room or your work desk.

Smartparts looks to be trying to de-emphasize the digital aspects of its frame (pictured above), slotting an 8.4-inch LCD into a genuine wood frame with a walnut finish. (Love that look!) Really easy to use, just insert a memory card filled with pictures and MP3s and it will automatically produce slideshows and plays the music, no computer is necessary. It'll accept most types memory card and you will need to keep one in there as it does not have any internal storage. No worries, memory cards are cheap these days. It does come with a handy remote and will set you back about USD$200.



Siren's frame has a smaller 5-inch display available in black or brown frames, comes with an almost useless 32MB of built-in memory but luckily has most types of memory card support. There is no remote on this one though, and you can get it from Japan in September for ¥17,800 (around USD$150).