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The latest AURA Home Digital Frame Products, PlagueDisplay your digital photos in a acting style. With a 12 -inch anti -glow screen, a width ratio to 4: 3, and a very thin frame, $ 229 improved on the company Carver 10 inches ($ 149) While maintaining the AURA’s basic feature to exchange images. It also brings two new features of the program to the schedule: text clarification designations and the search for people.
ASPEN is designed to sit on an office or shelf and comes with an adjustable stand that works in a horizontal or image. It features a paper -containing spoke, a 1600 x 1200 resolution, and a 0.5 -inch thick screen. He shares many features with the company’s wall 15 inches and al -Din ($ 299): Both of them have high -resolution offers, combating fake and the ratio of the width to the height 4: 3, but the lighter is larger and thicker than the two.
Aura Asben sent me before the launch this week, and I had a few days to play with it. The first thing that surprised me is the more apparent amount of traditional images frame than Carv. Its slim design and lightweight building a nice change in the most amazing style of the previous model. Its new anti -glow screen mimics a real image, and the viewing ratio appears beautifully 4: 3 pictures.
This Figure 4: 3 is the key. Since the default setting of most smart phone cameras, almost all pictures that come out of your phone will suit this size. This means that they will be shown on the frame without black tapes, or outly strange effects, or displaying an exhibition side by side. Instead, the frame displays a picture and horizontal images in filling the screen, with some crops that can be modified in the AURA application.
You can add pictures to the frame from the camera menu via the Aura Frames app (iOS or Android). You can also send an email to them to the device or add it automatically with iCloud Photos or the integration of Google’s photo album. (The latter is It is still available Although Google initially says she was closing her.)
Aura Cto Eric Jensen told me that LCD screens sources for this size and use were difficult, but something the company worked for for a while. “It is the best size and weakness in the middle of the ashome,” says about the ashome, adding that she designed this frame specifically to sit on an office. “I am excited because we were able to get a screen is the ratio of the width to the right height, the correct size, and the appropriate price point.”
AURA says a lot of work to make her digital frames resemble photo frames and not just Gussied-to be “invisible”. He says that every screen is standing individually in the factory “to match the original lighting environment.”
The built -in surrounding light sensor relieves the frame in dark environments, and completely extinguishes it when the lights come out. The newly adjustable metal carrier is similar to what you will find on a regular photo frame, and the touch tape allows you to pass between the pictures without leaving the fingerprints on the screen.
But the screen is still a screen, and when the aspiration sits along with actual photo frames, you can choose the intruder. However, with the continuing custom digital photo frames, it contains a lot of elegance and does not look like a piece of technology. There is also a great value in seeing multiple images in one frame, which you feel deserves to compile another screen in your home (this does not display ads or spoil your photos using a used interface like some Smart offers).
Especially amazing how ASPEN displays live images of your iPhone as small forests
ASPEN is particularly fun when displaying live images of your iPhone as small forests-it feels very very Harry Potter-Squee. It can also display videos of up to 30 seconds, with sound if you click the touch bar.
New textual illustrations and people’s search features, which reach all aura tires, add some useful functions. You can now filter your camera roll by certain people, making adding pictures to their loved ones easier. The textual illustrations, which you can add in the application and appear on the frame, are a great way to add a context when sharing new photos to the frame of a family member. This also helps in other use of AURA – as an orchestra for a private family social network.
Various photo sharing is essential for an aura experience. According to Jensen, the experience of many people with AURA buys one for a family member and sending pictures to the frame of the app. Jensen tells me that each aura frame, on average, is four people connected to it to add pictures, and create an effect on the network.
The effect of the network was this original idea behind the aura. Jensen and his co -founder, Abdel -Chaudhry, started the company after leaving Twitter in 2012. They sold the start of searching for themsummary , To the national social network at the time in 2008.
The fun sharing photos with their loved ones in a way that is not limited to their phones or its computers seem to hunt.
The duo was still interested in social networks, but of the smaller type. However, many early ideas have faced a common problem for this type of business: revenue flows. Then they had the idea of combining the image sharing network with good devices to display photos, the aura was born.
Jensen says, they even surprised the speed she took. With people sharing pictures and sharing tires, AURA quickly turned into a viable company. The pleasure of sharing photos with their loved ones in a way that is not limited to their phones or computer, and it seems physically inside their homes, it is hunted.
Unlike some competitors, AURA does not receive subscription fees for storing images based on the groove group. Its business model depends on people who buy one frame, then they definitely buy more. “Today, we know when we sell a frame for you you buy for your mother, and that you will buy a certain number of tires in the future. This represents more than half of our sales,” says Jensen. “The growth of the network is what drives the work.”
It is certain that it is refreshing to have a simple and special way to share pictures with the family, unlike sending them e -mail or posting them on social media (something that your teenage children refuse to allow me to do so). My mom gave a halo frame to test the participation feature, and while I knew she would love to see new pictures of the family, I was surprised how her reaction was. Instead of just commenting on a post on social media or responding to an email, I called by talking about the photos that I shared in her frame. I felt much more.
Pictures of Jennifer Patson Tuhi / Al -Haf