Thursday, March 8, 2007
Mustek KeyFoto Digital Picture Keychain Featuring World's Smallest Screen
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 11:00 AM
"Mustek, a leader in consumer electronics for the Digital Lifestyle, today introduced at the PMA '07 Show its new KeyFoto Digital Picture Keychain, a convenient way to display and carry up to 42 digital photos wherever the road takes you. Compact and stylish, KeyFoto is perfect for personalized on-the-go viewing, bringing to life digital photos once stuck on a camera or hard drive. It has two viewing modes to enjoy, manual browse and slideshow. Offering sharpness comparable to a cellphone, its one-inch color screen (96 x 64) is based on OLED technology, resulting in better picture quality and improved battery life. KeyFoto is USB driven, plus is compatible with both PCs and Macs, so it couldn’t be easier to use. Simply by plugging KeyFoto into any standard USB port you can upload up to 42 JPEG photos onto its 4MB internal memory using the included software, while its battery is recharged for two hours of viewing. KeyFoto will automatically shut-off after two minutes of non-use."
OK, I have no idea if this really is the World's Smallest Screen, but in this case I think the screen is so small as to make the product worthless. To give you an idea how small the picture is on this thing, I've scaled the product photo down to 96 x 64. From the picture it is obvious that there was plenty of room on the product for a much larger screen. Heck, the screen on my freebie cell phone is 4 times the size of this screen and hardly worthwhile to display pictures on. Also, 4 MB for only 42 pictures at 96 X 64 does not make much sense. By my rough calculations, that number of pictures at that size should only take up about 50 KB, not 4 MB. Do any of you see a use for this other than as a novelty?
OK, I have no idea if this really is the World's Smallest Screen, but in this case I think the screen is so small as to make the product worthless. To give you an idea how small the picture is on this thing, I've scaled the product photo down to 96 x 64. From the picture it is obvious that there was plenty of room on the product for a much larger screen. Heck, the screen on my freebie cell phone is 4 times the size of this screen and hardly worthwhile to display pictures on. Also, 4 MB for only 42 pictures at 96 X 64 does not make much sense. By my rough calculations, that number of pictures at that size should only take up about 50 KB, not 4 MB. Do any of you see a use for this other than as a novelty?
