It's not revolutionary tech, but this Motorola picture frame concept combines a few different fields to create a pretty practical device. The device looks like a digital picture frame, but it also supports VOIP and acts as a wireless information hotspot with femtocell integration (cellular base station that can cover wireless formats from GSM to WiMAX). With a few UI tweaks, we'd gladly hang one on our wall. [via Crave]

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I have to hand it to the guys at Motorola for coming up with the idea to integrate a femtocell and a VoIP soft phone into a digital photo frame. Femotcells help cover weak spots in a cellular network by sending calls over the internet—which is a good idea except that it would involve yet another device cluttering up your workspace. The choice of a frame as the focal point for the system is a clever solution to this problem because it already utilises a touchscreen and it blends in well with the surrounding environment. Femtocells have yet to make a big impact on our wireless networks, but I can see devices like this helping to speed up adoption. [connectedhome2go via ZatzNotFunny]

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