BROOKSTONE PICTURE BOOK MINI DIGITAL PHOTO KEY CHAIN - HOLDS 56 COLOR PHOTOS, BUILT IN 8 MB OF MEMORY, AUTO RESIZE PHOTOS TO FIT SCREEN, HIGH RESOLUTION 1.4" LCD COLOR SCREEN,RECHARGABLE BATTERY 2.5 HOURS OF VIEWING TIME,FAST EASY DOWNLOADS FROM PC,OR MAC, WITH INCL.SOFTWARE, CONNECTS TO COMPUTER WITH USB CORD

by Brookstone

Product Details

• ASIN: B000JJKR7S
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,908 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 1, 2005

Product Description

display photos key ring

Customer Reviews

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hardware fine; software so-so, December 6, 2006

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R. Fidelman "MIS Guy" (Petaluma, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BROOKSTONE PICTURE BOOK MINI DIGITAL PHOTO KEY CHAIN - HOLDS 56 COLOR PHOTOS, BUILT IN 8 MB OF MEMORY, AUTO RESIZE PHOTOS TO FIT SCREEN, HIGH RESOLUTION 1.4" LCD COLOR SCREEN,RECHARGABLE BATTERY 2.5 HOURS OF VIEWING TIME,FAST EASY DOWNLOADS FROM PC,OR MAC, WITH INCL.SOFTWARE, CONNECTS TO COMPUTER WITH USB CORD (Electronics)

I purchased 4 of these units for my wife and children. They arrived promptly and all worked. The concept is great, and I feel the $50 price is ok. I give this product less than 5 stars because of the cumbersome software included, which is necessary to load the digital pictures onto the unit itself. In addition, the resolution, while barely adequate, is much less than I expected. I haven't been able to find any specs as to the number of pixels. I'll guess 160 x 160.

Tips for best use of this software:
Any disconnect of the keychain device before, during and after downloading will immediately kill the program, so be sure to save your working pictures at regular intervals.

Save your work before downloading, as the program will clear the working buffers without giving you the opportunity to save it --- a problem if you want to retain your edits.

The resolution of this display is extremely small, so use their software to crop as much out of the picture as you can before saving it to the work area. The cropping forces the same width to length constraints regardless of the size of the cropping. Portrait-oriented images require the most creative use of the crop tool.

The brightness and contrast change options are adequate, but I recommend that you do as much as possible with your camera's post-processing software before using the Brookstone supplied software.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice design and interface. GRAINY display., May 1, 2007

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Len (Connecticut USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BROOKSTONE PICTURE BOOK MINI DIGITAL PHOTO KEY CHAIN - HOLDS 56 COLOR PHOTOS, BUILT IN 8 MB OF MEMORY, AUTO RESIZE PHOTOS TO FIT SCREEN, HIGH RESOLUTION 1.4" LCD COLOR SCREEN,RECHARGABLE BATTERY 2.5 HOURS OF VIEWING TIME,FAST EASY DOWNLOADS FROM PC,OR MAC, WITH INCL.SOFTWARE, CONNECTS TO COMPUTER WITH USB CORD (Electronics)

This photo keychain has a sleek design and nice user interface. The software is so-so - easy to navigate, but very limited photo-editing capability. My main criticism is the screen resolution is terrible. It's very grainy, like the first digital camera I bought in 1996. With today's amazing advances in miniaturization of memory and displays, this device should have crystal-clear photos, not blurry ones.

All-in-all, ALMOST a terrific product, and still a good product if you don't mind the grainy display.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars have no clue how to use this!, December 3, 2006

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T. Sullivan "Juicy Couture Lover!" (Ga) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BROOKSTONE PICTURE BOOK MINI DIGITAL PHOTO KEY CHAIN - HOLDS 56 COLOR PHOTOS, BUILT IN 8 MB OF MEMORY, AUTO RESIZE PHOTOS TO FIT SCREEN, HIGH RESOLUTION 1.4" LCD COLOR SCREEN,RECHARGABLE BATTERY 2.5 HOURS OF VIEWING TIME,FAST EASY DOWNLOADS FROM PC,OR MAC, WITH INCL.SOFTWARE, CONNECTS TO COMPUTER WITH USB CORD (Electronics)

well this is a really neat gift idea..however I tried to add a few pics to it before i gave it to my sister for xmas, & I downloaded the CD...well then when i connected the keychain it said "could not connect. sO i Called brookstone, who does not have any tech support, and they told me the only time you should use the CD was if you have anything less than XP...well I have XP. this whole thing is just not user friendly...so if anyone has any IDEA how to use this thig will you PLEASE let me know??? thanks much !