newVideoPlayer("panatz250_giz.flv", 494, 296,""); As you can see in the clip above, Panasonic’s Wi-Fi enabled Lumix TZ250 connects to most wireless networks—including T-Mobile Hotspots—and uploads your pictures directly to a Picasa account. It works in reverse also, photos placed online are browsable by the camera. When we tried it out, a picture took about 25 seconds to upload, which is a bit slow but a small price to pay to never worry about wires. The TZ250 will sell for US$450 starting in May. [Panasonic]
Ality has upgraded their PIXXA digital photo frame, although too late for the Xmas buying season. Their new 800 x 600 Wireless PIXXA with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, built-in speaker and MP3 playback can instantly show photos sent using their Web-based Photo Messenger application, as well as displaying your dates, news and weather. The most interesting this, apart from the its design, is their calendar system. It connects to Google Calendar and can schedule photos to display in specific dates. Their interface is quite elegant:
TiVo today announced you can now access accounts with Photobucket and Google’s Picasa using any broadband-connected TiVo, and as a bonus, if you have a TiVo HD or Series3, you can see the pics in HD resolution. This isn’t necessarily a revolution–you’ve been able to pull photos locally from your computer for years now, and Photobucket and Picasa aren’t exactly the market leaders in this field. While Flickr and Kodak would probably have been our choices, just for the broadest reach, it still might be a nice way to browse not only your photos, but photos of complete strangers, using public tag searches like “puppies,” “Alex Rodriguez” or “rough sex.” [TiVo]
