TCampbell
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This isn't for me (I dislike the poor image quality in photo frames), but I'm trying to find something for my 79 year old mother who has memory problems. To say she is technology-challenged would be an understatement. I would pay virtually any amount of money to buy her a cellphone if only it had a rotary dial (no... I'm not kidding. Buttons are extremely frustrating for her. She still has a piece of paper which she keeps in her purse with the phone numbers of her children and friends on it because she doesn't understand how to use the menu on the phone with everyone already programmed in.
So here's the problem. She's now living in an assisted living center. It helps her to see photos of her family, children, grandchildren, etc. Getting her something like an iPad so she can look at photos is waaaaay too complicated for her (even though iPads are generally easy for everyone else.)
A few years ago, I stumbled onto a digital photo frame that was almost (but not quite) a perfect idea for elderly people with memory problems. It was designed so that friends and family members could send photos to a special address and those photos would automatically appear on the device. Well... almost. The reason I didn't buy THAT photo frame, was because the person who owned the frame really would get "notifications" that new images had been submitted and they had to review and approve the images before they'd appear on the frame. The notion that she'd have to figure out how review and approve new photos is absolutely out of the question. I've tried to teach her how to retrieve voice mail from her cellphone on a regular basis and she absolutely cannot do it if I'm not there. She also doesn't know how to retrieve a text message. I have to remind my siblings that they can't send her text messages or leave her voicemail because she can't retrieve them and it just gives her stress that she is unable to do these things which are seemingly simple tasks for everyone else.
I have a photo frame that someone gave me as a gift years ago which has (a) WiFi and (b) has the ability to auto-download and display images from online services such as Flickr. I could even program an auto-on / auto-off time so that it would only run during the day and not keep her awake at night. The problem with that frame is that it's made by Kodak, who has decided to exit the digital photo frame business. I don't have the ability to re-configure the frame anymore.
I had been thinking that if I could only find a WiFi photo frame that would let me display images from Flickr then I could create a Flickr account for her, set to private, and then I could upload the images to Flickr and they'd auto-appear on her photo frame without her ever having to do anything but enjoy the images.
Does anyone know of a decent photo frame that has these capabilities and is actually "supported" by a company not in bankruptcy or exiting the market?
The important factor is that she must not need to ever touch the photo frame for any reason. It requires any level of interaction -- no matter how trivial it might seem to the rest of us -- it wont work for her.
Thanks!
So here's the problem. She's now living in an assisted living center. It helps her to see photos of her family, children, grandchildren, etc. Getting her something like an iPad so she can look at photos is waaaaay too complicated for her (even though iPads are generally easy for everyone else.)
A few years ago, I stumbled onto a digital photo frame that was almost (but not quite) a perfect idea for elderly people with memory problems. It was designed so that friends and family members could send photos to a special address and those photos would automatically appear on the device. Well... almost. The reason I didn't buy THAT photo frame, was because the person who owned the frame really would get "notifications" that new images had been submitted and they had to review and approve the images before they'd appear on the frame. The notion that she'd have to figure out how review and approve new photos is absolutely out of the question. I've tried to teach her how to retrieve voice mail from her cellphone on a regular basis and she absolutely cannot do it if I'm not there. She also doesn't know how to retrieve a text message. I have to remind my siblings that they can't send her text messages or leave her voicemail because she can't retrieve them and it just gives her stress that she is unable to do these things which are seemingly simple tasks for everyone else.
I have a photo frame that someone gave me as a gift years ago which has (a) WiFi and (b) has the ability to auto-download and display images from online services such as Flickr. I could even program an auto-on / auto-off time so that it would only run during the day and not keep her awake at night. The problem with that frame is that it's made by Kodak, who has decided to exit the digital photo frame business. I don't have the ability to re-configure the frame anymore.
I had been thinking that if I could only find a WiFi photo frame that would let me display images from Flickr then I could create a Flickr account for her, set to private, and then I could upload the images to Flickr and they'd auto-appear on her photo frame without her ever having to do anything but enjoy the images.
Does anyone know of a decent photo frame that has these capabilities and is actually "supported" by a company not in bankruptcy or exiting the market?
The important factor is that she must not need to ever touch the photo frame for any reason. It requires any level of interaction -- no matter how trivial it might seem to the rest of us -- it wont work for her.
Thanks!