Despite the efforts of industrial designers at companies like Apple, the wireless router is still basically a boxy little thing that doesn’t do much for the décor of your home. D-Link has taken the wraps off a new device, though, that won’t make you embarrassed to have your wireless router sitting out for all to see.
The D-Link Xtreme N DIR-685 information appliance combines an 802.11n wireless router, network attached storage device, media server, and – best of all – digital picture frame sporting a 3.2-inch LCD all into a single device.
The Xtreme N DIR-685 offers standard wireless router features such as printer and USB device sharing, and adds the ability to stream all kinds of content from the web to the device and devices connected to it.
The streaming web content is provided by the device’s out-of-the-box integration with FrameChannel, which is not only smart, but makes using the service and frame together even easier.
No word on price or availability yet, but I suspect we’ll see this guy displayed on tables in house nationwide soon rather than later.
On InformationAppliance: D-Link Puts Digital Frame in Wireless Router | Digital Picture Frames wrote at January 10th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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