New ways to share your pictures
As digital imagery infuses society, the old-fashioned ways of sharing images are going the way of the dinosaur. Several companies have come up with innovative and high-tech ways to store, share and package your favorite photos, and PMA 2006 will be the platform for showing off the newest methods.
The Picture Porter Elite
Digital Foci's Picture Porter Elite serves as a multi-purpose digital photo album. With either 40GB or 80GB of storage, it is a portable hard drive for storing images. It features a 3.6-inch LCD screen for viewing images, can print directly to any PictBridge printer and accepts memory cards. It doubles as an mp3 player and voice recorder. It will be available in May with a $499 retail price.
Bind your own photo album
It still makes people feel warm and fuzzy to hold an actual photo album in their hands. The popularity of scrapbooking, too, makes it so many people like to arrange photos themselves. Unibind will present its PhotoBook Creator at PMA. The company boasts this is the first low-priced photo album binding system to hit the mainstream market, and hits streets in March for $99. Besides the binder, which can bind an 8.5" x 11" photo album in three seconds, the kit also features layout software.
You become the director
Simple Star's Photo Show allows users to manage their photos, share them on CDs, on your own Web page or via e-mail, retouch their images and even burn them onto DVDs to watch as movies.
