Parrot DIA
Striking photo frame
Digital photo frames can be found nowadays in all shapes and sizes. And yet know the Parrot attention. The DIA is in fact nothing compares to its peers. Not even in the price.
Digital picture frames are often no more than an LCD screen with a cabinet design around it. France’s Parrot, an original design never shy, had this law for what it was and made in collaboration with designer collective Node sign an entirely idiosyncratic show box: the DIA.
In this photo frame are the two basic components of the screen, the light box and the screen, literally pulled apart. Between these two elements is a slot of about 2 cm, which is a lot of dust can fall.
Nostalgic
The photos seem a few inches for the frame to float, as if she could grab. Very futuristic. Everything on the frame looks transparent. Simultaneously, the DIA pure nostalgia, I must immediately think of old-fashioned slide evenings in the living room.
Disadvantages? If your frame on a cabinet and walk over, you see a dark stripe down, and a bright light at the top of the lightbox. The entire top, including touch buttons, and the back are also ultra-sensitive. Long passwords or URLs (yes, you can google the DIA) You do not want using the buttons enter.
Luckily you can with the help of WPS (WiFi Protected Setup), the frame automatically to your wifi network search. If the frame once on your home network, you can find anything through a browser on your computer or from any smartphone control.
Applications
The two best apps on the frame and Mover 2.0 Holidays. Holidays in the frame between each photo zooms in on the GPS location where it is made. Even better is Mover. Therefore you need an extra app you install on your iPod / iPhone (Mover Lite – free) or iPad (Mover + € 1.59).
You can then from your iDevice each photo or any film in the direction of your slide DIA, as you sometimes see in futuristic movies. Wonderful.
Plus you can mail your photos to a secret address. Handy if you want to surprise your parents on a trip with a picture on their frame. We chose to set everything up via the web service Framechannel.com. Frame Channel via passwords, you do not tap the frame: just to confirm that access Channel Frame. Only a little strange that the same pictures often return.
DIA Parrot photo frame
Price: 500 euros (March 2011)
PRO: No pixels can be seen, very nice apps, images seem to float.
FEMALE: Rude socket, sensitive operation, as expensive as an iPad.
Source: Clickx