I don't know if this counts as me 'discovering' something today, but I was looking around for presents for my sig. other and I was searching for something along the lines of a digital picture frame or a locket. Well, guess what: some smart people decided to combine the two of them and came up with a digital photo locket. J&R has it for about $32 after shipping. I'm not too sure about the battery life though, but it seems like an interesting gift idea. The link can be found below: http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Pr...feed.CTA+MIHPNB Well, that's what I found and I thought that I would share with the rest of you guys. - Trinifawk

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It's one of those weird inbetweens, if you're digital it'll be your desktopbg, if you're old you probably don't have a laptop. My grandparents have been converted (to digital), so I dunno anyone who'd like this.

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Interesting idea....but I don't really like it all that much.

It just looks bad in my opinion....also...digital? Why would you want a digital one? Wouldn't you want it to be a regular one...one that'll keep the picture forever...isn't the the idea of it?

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That's the downfall of this item- the battery life. I believe that it's rated to last about 2 hours when on. That's where it would fall into the category of 'toy' instead of 'jewelry'. Maybe one day they can get it to work on kinetic energy or something.

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In short I think it's a very interesting idea, but they really need to work on the full design of the locket if they want to progress with it. The short battery life is basically a joke. In my opinion, I don't think the design is particularly aesthetically pleasing either.

Furthermore, I highly doubt that a digital locket could harbour the same sentimental values as a traditional piece of jewellery in which a permanent photo can be viewed and kept for years on end.

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Exactly what I was thinking....the digital part...gets rid of the idea of a photo that is to be kept for years and years and years...

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Man that thing is ugly, haha. I agree with the 'cool idea' portion, but damn son, that is an ugly, UGLY thing. I think a girl would slap me if I bought that for her unless she was 10.

That being said, I HAVE seen some similar items, silver chains with digital electronics on the end, but they were small lcd panels so you could put a personal name, word, design, etc on them. They actually looked cool and were refined and didn't look like a toy. Basically I think a digital locket could be cool, but it cant be a bulky toy-looking thing such as this one. Unless it is, in fact, for kids to just mess around with.

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if it was sterling silver and not ugly like an old locket. it'd be cool especially if you could put animated stuff on it so your grandma or whoever you want to remember will wink at you.

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This does sound interesting, but the link doesn't work anymore? (something about updating there site), any other examples of this?

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I don't really see the point of this, the battery runs out, and you can't see your photo.. If you just used a regular photo it would be there forever.. Plus this one looks ugly and from the looks of it, it looks plastic. Same thing with some digital photo frames I've seen. You can make a mini slide show in the photo frame.. it kind of seems useless. Traditional photos are way better, and are cheaper.

 

 

 

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