With Mother’s Day and Father’s Day around the corner, many family members are scurrying to find the perfect gift to show their loved one how much they appreciate them.

Most people use their smartphones to capture photos and videos today, sharing them via social networks. This digital content is then viewed in passing on another smartphone or computer and then often never viewed again. The ability to quickly capture images and video and then share that content via wireless networks makes digital photo frames great again.

When you and your loved ones feel worlds apart, receiving a lovely picture or two can help you feel a little closer. With so many photos on our phones, hard drives, or in the cloud, printing them all out isn’t practical, and there’s never enough room to display them all on your wall. A digital frame can fix that, though:

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. At least, that’s how the song goes. When you’re frantically putting soap sets and desk calendars into your cart on Dec. 23rd, it may not feel that wonderful. Luckily, you still have time on your side to take a more thoughtful approach to gift-giving.

My job is to find cool stuff. Throughout the week I spend hours scouring the web for things that are useful or fun or ridiculously cheap. Often times, these choices coalesce into a guide of like items—for example,how to build the ultimate backyard movie theater,19 items to elevate your binge watching, or 10 privacy gadgets to help you keep a secret. But I often stumble across some pretty awesome gear that doesn’t really fit into a list. So I made a list for those.

Much as the watch was the first digital display to grace most people’s wrists, the alarm clock was the first digital display to appear in many households. But tech companies have long been eager to establish a “fourth screen” in the home, beyond the TV, PC, and phone.

The old saying goes that a picture is “worth a thousand words.”

This February 14, why not speak volumes to the ones you love, with a smart photo frame chock full of high-definition snapshots that can be changed and shared remotely? Sure, your friends, family and loved ones would certainly always prefer to have you and your sparkling wit around in-person, however for those times in-between personal appearances, or for long-distance relationships; let me show you how smart photo frames bridge the distance on Valentine’s Day.

Digital photo frames have been around for a while, but PhotoSpring — with its ability to store thousands of photos and videos for families to share with, for example, elderly relatives — shows how far they’ve come.

PhotoSpring has created a tablet-like device with a 10.1-inch IPS screen. The Wi-Fi connected device can store at least 15,000 photos in its 16-gigabyte version, and it can store about 30,000 photos on its 32-gigabyte version. The screen has a resolution of 1280 x 800, and it comes with stereo speakers and a charging stand. It retails at $150 for the 16-gigabyte version, $170 for the 32-gigabyte version, and $200 for an 80-gigabyte version.

Mother's Day 2018 falls on Sunday, May 13. That means time is running out if you're going to pick up something to show mom just how much you appreciate her and everything she does.

While flowers, chocolates and maybe a spa certificate are traditional, some of the best gifts to choose from these days are high tech gifts. The kind of stuff that she might not pick up for herself, but would love to try out.

PhotoSpring is a new kind of digital frame that also doubles as a photo album.  Unlike other digital frames, it doesn’t require a memory card. Instead, PhotoSpring uses companion apps (compatible with iPhone or Android phones and Mac and Windows computers) to load photos and videos from your smartphone and computer. With the apps, you can choose to have pictures automatically displayed as they are taken, or select which photos to upload whenever you like. 

I've used digital photo frames, almost since the beginning of digital cameras, but they often had drawbacks. Memory cards were required, which made updates a hassle. Poor quality or improperly formatted photos would ruin the experience. The PhotoSpring Digital Photo Frame ($149) is the digital picture frame I've been waiting for. 

PhotoSpring is both a digital photo frame and an album.As a frame you can put it on display and see different photos from your entire collection everyday. As an album, you can pick it up and use the touchscreen and battery to browse or find photos.

 PhotoSpring collects photos from your Smartphone and other storage devices to display in plain view just like a photo frame. Everyday you’ll to see a new set of photos to enjoy throughout the day and finally start to apprecaite all the photos you take.

When I was a kid, my sister and I used to love studying the photos in our family photo albums. There were only a few of them (because film photography could get costly), but we loved seeing ourselves as kids, seeing the rest of our family, and looking at the places we went. In the last couple of decades, digital photography has meant we don’t need to have physical prints made to be able to see and share our photos. This has meant instant gratification and much more widely sharable photos, but it also means we take many terrible photos that require sorting through, and most of us probably never get around to creating photo albums of our kids in the same way.

Don’t lie to me or yourself; you most likely have all your pics in your phone and you most likely don’t even back it up.  I take about 10 pics a day of my cuties, all on my phone and they seem to stay there with the over 1000 that came before them.  I always say I will “save them” to some sort of cloud, or make a book (who has 10 hours), or better yet frame them in my home.  NONE OF THESE THINGS HAPPEN.  LOL.

As a parent, I am constantly taking photos and videosof both my kids. Especially of the baby, well because he is a baby and he is at that stage where even when he gets in trouble, it is cute and I want to capture as many of those moments as possible even if it is only to embarrass him in front of his girlfriend 20 years from now!

You love your family, of course. You also love taking photographs of them and looking at digital photos, whether they’re posted on Facebook or your children hand you their smartphone to swipe through dozens of photos.

It’s fun and it’s much more convenient than the old days, which is just a few years ago. You used to buy expensive rolls of film that were even costlier to have developed into photographs.

Memories are so very important to me and I have found the perfect photo frame to give the perfect gift this year.  Photospring has exactly what you need to keep the memories alive with their photo frame that allows you to play photos and videos.

We’ve managed to avoid major childhood injuries and medical procedures, and the accompanying debt-inducing healthcare bills, for the first 13.5 years of family life but the streak has ended with a momentous clattering.