The ultimate digital picture frame

Some 20 years ago, Bill Gates was the king of computing, and not above boasting about his new high-tech house. In his book The Road Ahead he described how large monitors in the house would display great works of art, changing every day. These digital art frames could even react as you walked past, no button pushing required. Now that, I remember thinking, is something I would like. ??? Gates predicted that the day would come when almost any middle-class American family could enjoy this kind of technology. Recently I decided to find out whether that day has arrived. ??? The impetus to build my own digital art frame came from my mother, Sylvia Gibbs, a professional artist. Over the years I have framed and hung quite a few of her paintings. But as I was straightening up a closet this spring I found a portfolio full of prints and drawings she had given me years ago. They are terrific; I???d love to put them up. But it would cost thousands of dollars to have them all professionally framed. And I don???t have enough wall space to hang them.