Frame by Smartparts sports printer

With so many new cameras being rolled out at the PMA show in Las Vegas last week, it was easy to miss some of the other neat gadgets introduced at the extravaganza, gadgets like the digital photo frame with a built-in printer from SmartParts, of Totowa, New Jersey. The OptiPix SP8PRT has an eight-inch LCD with a resolution of 800-by-600 pixels and a dye-sublimation printer incorporated into the back of the unit. If the word "printer" is synonymous with inconvenience in your mind, you can relax. The frame's printer uses an all-in-one cartridge that includes both ink and paper. It produces 36 4-by-6-inch prints before it has to be replaced. In addition to printing stills, the frame can play video with sound and accepts popular memory cards, such as SD, Memory Stick and xD cards. The frame is expected to sell for $279. No pricing for the printer cartridges was announced.