I'll say this: if the iPhone came in this form factor, there'd be a $3.99 app that would log the contents of your pantry, submit Peapod/Urbangrocer orders, and aggregate/display all viable recipes from Cooks Illustrated. Tapulous would make $2,000,000 off it in their first year. And I'd buy a Picwing to get it.
Not there yet, unless I'm missing something.
I was going to buy a Chumby a while back, but they never made one without leather, and I don't buy animal products, so I think the Picwing is more cuddly than the Chumby, since I don't want to cuddle with dead animal parts.
My first reaction to this video was, "Ooh, now I can finally have a totally awesome alarm clock, and it's not a leater-encased Chumby!" Unfortunately, though, I just got a nice iPod docking clock radio for Christmas from my folks, so I'm not really in the market anymore.
If it's priced at $249, I'll probably pass, since I already have too many random small computing gadgets around the house (XO, G1, DS, Chinese pirate game console portable, Wii, and several regular desktops and a laptop). But, I think for the folks who would be buying a picture frame, spending an extra $100, or so, would be a very easy decision to make. At least, if those folks buying can be made aware of the Picwing.
Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port ...
Raise your hand if you have both ...
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device ...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
Before you conclude that the only thing preventing people from owning netbooks instead of appliances is the price, be sure to spend several hours pondering the lessons of Slashdot's infamous initial review of the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257...
I think this frame is pretty exciting, even if the Chumby is more cuddly.