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Nifty Uses for Today's Digital Picture Frames?
The ever-prolific AtariDatacenter asks: "The prices of digital picture frames have dropped dramatically over the past year. And some of the upcoming models are promising things such as MPEG playback, and Ethernet access. Are there any killer uses for the current generation of digital picture frames? How about the next generation?" Of course, before you race out to buy one of these picture frames, be sure to look at the terms of use. Last I checked, some of these things were downright useless without the service and fair-use unfriendly. Have any of you found Digital Picture Frames that were worth the price and that actually let you play with the internals a bit?
If you can get some sort of video stream into these frames then you can do just about anything with them. How about a real-time usage graph from your webserver (code red anyone?). You could get a couple of them and use them as side-view mirrors in race car games. What about a tiny X-terminal? If you are really talented, you could get a bunch of them and make one big makeshift LCD screen.
Then again, you could use them to display photos! They just need to be bigger and hang on the wall so you can use them to display paintings when you aren't using them, but can also be used for tv/computer/etc.