Written on November 14, 2008 – 6:40 am | by Maria Mihale |

Technological progress is absolutely stunning nowadays and that's why when a new device comes out in the market, it’s sometimes difficult to know what these ingenious manufacturers are offering to you. For example, the concept of a digital photo frame also becomes quite vague as they start to have more and more applications attached to them.

Take the Keian Japan P71-A2-JP, a box-like photo that can act as a printer, audio player and even the option of adding an external hard drive. Keian Japan plans, therefore, not to just replace your boring digital photo frame, but also your printer and audio player.

The printer function is maybe the most interesting of them all. Imagine, for example, having a friend over, and he or she looks at your 7-inch screen with a 480 x 234 display. If your guest wants to take one of the photos with him or her, the only thing you should do is to hit a button and he or she will receive a 100 x 150 millimeters sized photo with 300 dpi resolution.

Yes, you got it right, this is a photo frame that actually prints photos. What will they think of next? MP3 file support, for example, but, if we remember it well, this has already been done on other digital photo frames. One thing that is new and we haven’t seen on other digital photo frames is the option to add on an external hard drive. I mean, a SDHC card reader is a more common feature, or an option to take photos off of a memory stick. Actually, the Keian Japan P71-A2-JP has that feature as well.

Therefore, this could be considered just the beginning of a new age of digital photo frames that can do more than just view photos.

(Source: coolest-gadgets.com)