Casio is kicking off the new year with a Digital Art Frame, that can take an ordinary photo and transform it into a work of art. Utilizing a “snapshot-to-painting conversion” function to render digital photographs into creative and personalized artistic expressions, Casio’s digital art frame is unlike any conventional digital photo frame on the market.
The 10.2-inch WSVGA LCD frame lets users apply the kinds of graphic filters found in Photoshop, emulating several styles of drawing and painting. With the push of a button, users can make their photos look like water color paintings, color pencil sketches, pastels, oil paintings, air brushings, gothic oil paintings, fauvist oil paintings or works of pointillism (bonus points if you can identify each style in front of house guests). According to Casio, the brains of the frame go a bit beyond simpler image processors by combining the art effects with Casio’s facial recognition technology to ensure faces don’t disappear in a blur of blobs. It will also go beyond merely displaying photos with support for Flash Lite content, such as clocks and calendars.
Another neat feature is Dynamic Photo, already found in Casio’s digital cameras. Dynamic Photo automatically crops subjects out of one photo for superimposing on another. A moving image can then be created by combining several of these composite photos.
The product will be available in the spring. It has a 10.1-inch screen, two gigabytes of memory, an SD memory card slot, stereo speakers, and a power-saving display that turns on when someone approaches the screen
