Ok so from time to time I get some good ideas... I'm always thinking of new products that could make it big... some of them like software I'll keep to myself because I can actually produce them and see where they go; however from time to time I get some good product ideas that involve manufacturing... and to say the least I'm not interested in getting involved in that at all. I'm dedicating a section of my site for those kind of ideas... and if someone has the resources to make these things happen, well good luck :) and if you make some money maybe send some my way ;)

Anyway I love coming up with ideas... product development is something I want to get into... I love taking something and brainstorming on how to make it better and come up with an approach nobody has ever thought of.

So my first idea I would like to share with you is:

Digital Picture Frame on steroids :) Let's call it FlicrFrame

So about 4 years ago I bought my first digital picture frame... it's great, 640x480 resolution compact flash interface... I think it was from Kodak... paid about $200 for it. Over the last few years they went away completely I couldn't find them anywhere and if I did they were twice the price... so finally the digital picture frame returns... tigerdirect has a few in stock now... I just bought one for my mom for Xmas.

Anyway I was thinking... this is all great but with flicker content exploding out there I thought wouldn't it be great to create a digital picture frame that has Wifi/Bluetooth support... image this...

You get a picture frame for your girlfriend or someone in your family... turn it on... put in your Flickr userid and select either a picture set or the whole Flickr library... and all of the sudden you have random photos coming in directly from flicker to a picture frame that's either sitting on your night table or hanging on the wall :) You could also send picture from your photo via bluetooth or from any pc in your house...

Now lets take it a step further... hmm YouTube :) Let's connect to my brothers YouTube profile and have the picture frame in the background download a few clips and display them on the picture frame every so often... Cool eh?

With all the APIs available out there this is very easy to do... all you need is some money to tie in all the hardware together and developer VERY EASY (this is key to sell to the public) UI for people to get digital content.

That's it, I hope that next Xmas or the year after this will hit the shelves... spread the word if you would like someone to make this product.

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