The Fotobox is a USB dongle that sits between an SD card and a Windows PC, just like a card reader. Unlike a card reader, it takes the photos on that card and turns them into a slideshow, running the software from the stick itself.
We like the idea, and it seems genuinely useful. How often have you taken a bunch of photos and wanted just to view them, only you don’t have your own computer with you? Instead, you need to transfer the pictures to a foreign machine and, if you are a pampered Mac user like me, try to work out both where the photos have gone and then how to view them.
Even on your own machine you might not want to open up your photo library in front of your mother, if you know what I mean. The device even works with netbooks, and can handle video as well as photos, and offers the usual range of cube, dissolve and wiping transitions.
It costs $80, but we guess that if it works as an SD card reader as well then that’s not so bad. If it was half that price or under it would be an impulse buy to be kept in your camera bag until needed. As it is, I’ll stick to the free Picasa.
Product page [Honestech. thanks, Nicole!]
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