5:00 PM -- About a year ago I met a couple of Boulder-area entrepreneurs who'd come up with a very cool idea: a WiFi picture frame that links to your laptop or desktop and can shuffle through your entire photo library on a continuous basis. Called PhotoVu, the company is now in the classic TiVo position: selling an innovative specialty product with big competitors moving into the space.

Kodak now has its own WiFi-enabled display device, the EasyShare EX-1011 Digital Picture Frame. You can display photos from a memory card, a computer, a digital camera, or just store them on the frame's 128 MBytes of internal memory. The thing even has built-in speakers so you can add a soundtrack to the photos from your trip to DisneyWorld.

Due to ship in March, the Kodak frame sells for $280 (10" frame) and $220 (8"). PhotoVu sells a 10.4" version for $209, plus 17" ($799) and 19" ($999) frames.

The word from PhotoVu's Nederland, Colo., shop is that they have more orders than they can process. Maybe it's time for a licensing deal to one of the online photo-management companies, or an acquisition?

— Richard Martin, Senior Editor, Unstrung