If you thought that digital photo frames are only for displaying your family photos, thing again. The digital photo frame is a versatile gadget that can find many other uses that are only limited to your imagination. Here are five unusual, but very useful – applications for a digital photo frame.

1. Put your digital photo frame to work, it’s an ideal sales tool. Next time you’re having a stand at an exhibition, create a sales orientated slide show that you can display at the stand. You can make it interactive by advertising specials, competitions, or product features. One nice way of making it interactive is to display questions and answers about your industry – a sure fire way to attract visitors to your stand.
2. Signage: Need an elegant way to show people where registration, the toilets, and tea is during a conference? Make a few signs on a graphics program, upload to your digital photo frame, and voila! You have an instance directory.
3. Corporate gifts – Imagine presenting your client with a personalized digital photo frame. And if you’re really sneaky you’ll find a way of pre-loading the frame with a choice of their own photos.
4. Remember it’s portable: Want to quickly show yor holiday video to the family? Take your frame with on the visit, with your photos and videos on a USB stick or memory card. Need to give a client presentation without the hassle of setting up computers and data projectors? Use your digital photo frame to great effect and minimum hassle. It’s also a great backup, should Murphy’s Law show up and crash your computer in the middle of a presentation.
5. Sharing photos: A new trend in the development of digital photo frames is to have a built-in facility that allows you to share photos between frames over the Internet. This is done either through a central server as in the case of Cievo frames. Some have built-in web access facilities that allow you to stream photos from services like Flickr.

The versatility of digital photo frames and technological advances means that more and more additional uses for digital photo frames will develop in the near future. To stay up to date with the latest bells and whistles being added to digital photo frames by manufacturers, subscribe to our newsletter!