{"id":49,"date":"2006-12-24T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/24\/estarling-cool-wi-fi-enabled-flickr-photo-frame\/"},"modified":"2006-12-24T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T21:12:16","slug":"estarling-cool-wi-fi-enabled-flickr-photo-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/24\/estarling-cool-wi-fi-enabled-flickr-photo-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"eStarling : Cool wi-fi enabled  Flickr photo frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/electronics\/cameras\/7edc\/?cpg=wnrss\">flickr enabled LCD Frame<\/a> on ThinkGeek.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/images\/products\/front\/estarling_new.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks like quite neat, it&#8217;s a standalone wi-fi LCD photo frame that connects to your wireless network and automatically displays images emailed to it in a slideshow. You can also specify an RSS feed from flickr based on tagged keywords.<\/p>\n<p>For me its yet another example of how web based services are being integrated into every day objects. In some instances these border on the ridiculous ( <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/japanese-develop-umbrella-with-flickr-and-youtube-integration\/\">flickr enabled umbrella<\/a> ), in other cases the integration is subtle and quite useful like this. I personally like the idea of having a photo frame that will randomly display different pictures based on criteria I specify. Especially if its simple to use and doesn&#8217;t require me to have to think too much about how I can get it to work. The RSS Integration with flickr was a nice extension that doesnt detract at all from its primary function which is to display your photos.<\/p>\n<p>** Since posting this up, someone has commented below with first hand experience of this product, please read his comments, it appears that the device isn&#8217;t as wonderful as it first sounds. Thanks very much for the heads up Mike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this flickr enabled LCD Frame on ThinkGeek. It looks like quite neat, it&#8217;s a standalone wi-fi LCD photo frame that connects to your wireless network and automatically displays images emailed to it in a slideshow. You can also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/24\/estarling-cool-wi-fi-enabled-flickr-photo-frame\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[385,400],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-usability","tag-technology","tag-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}