I've been looking at digital picture frames and I thought...Slim could
take this concept to a whole new level.  

Of course it would have digital picture display capabilities via
wireless or wired networking.  Also a memory card reader so you can use
it with the computer off.  And the ability to go out on the internet for
pics and data with the computer off, via SqueezeNetwork

The coolest uses would be in conjunction with Slimserver and 
Squeezebox, though.  It could display album art, track info, album
reviews, current playlist, or other info while the music plays. You
could display a different set of pictures for each
artist/album/genre/playlist.  You could get album art off the net if it
wasn't in your music files or folders.

Create custom slideshows with musical accompanyment through the SB.

Send mpeg/mov/avi/divx/VOB video to the SlimScreen and audio to the
SB.

Hi-res spectrum display, throbbing screensavers that move to the music,
etc.

Plugins to display images from a Flickr account, videos from YouTube,
RSS feeds, stock quotes, weather alerts, email, callerID  + the
caller's photo, etc.

Search via photo tags - people/places/years

The hardware would be cheap.  The software would use the slimserver
method of Perl & mySQL - open source, cross-platform, extensible via
plugins.

You could offer a remote control that handles both devices.

Whaddaya think?


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