Casio Digital Art Frame Turns Your Photos Into Art

Written on Jan 6, 2010 by Brian and filed under Casio

Casio is getting to work in the US digital frame market with a new product announcement at CES. Their take on the frame market is pretty fun. The 10.2″ “digital art frame” takes your normal photos and uses image recognition and image processing technologies to morph them into works of art using 8 unique styles.

As you can tell from the mock-up above, the end results appear to be compelling. Each photo can have a different effect applied, including: Water Color Painting, Color Pencil Sketch, Pastel Painting, Pointillism, Air Brush, Oil Painting, Gothic Oil Painting, and Fauvist Oil Painting.

Casio also has a few other tricks in this frame, including what they call Dynamic Photo. This lets users combine moving characters directly on the frame. You can also overlay the art effects to create moving works of art that should be pretty interesting. Another fun inclusion is Adobe’s Flash Lite. This is the first frame to use the software, which makes certain features much better designed, like the clock and calendar.

The Casio frame isn’t all party tricks though. The frame also  features a 10.2″ widescreen display with 1024×600 pixels,  2GB of internal storage, SD card slot, USB port and stereo speakers. The frame supports JPEG, BMP, PNG and RAW photo file formats,  Motion JPEG for video, and MP3 and WAV for audio.

And when it looks like Casio’s done enough to make this frame interesting, they’ve also included much-desired but rarely-included advanced power saving features like automatic display on/off using viewer proximity sensor and scheduled on/off times.

The Casio Digital Art Frame will be available this spring, pricing has not yet been announced.

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