app that makes pictures look like paintings
But one of his better challenges over the years has been aggregate technology into the home.
"I've spent a lot of time as a artist analytic the botheration of how to adumbrate technology," Adler told CNN Tech. "I've done things like put a painting over a television."
But with his latest venture, the acclaimed autogenous artist wants tech to attending acceptable and serve as an accent, abundant like appliance and pillows.
Adler has partnered with startup Aura Frames on a agenda account anatomy that pairs with an app, pulls in photos in absolute time and lets accompany and ancestors associates add pictures. It uses facial recognition, bogus intelligence and apparatus acquirements to abbey your best iPhone photos.
"To me, this is like adornment for the home," Adler said. "It seemed like a way to accomplish technology absolutely admirable and not article to hide."
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The dejected appropriate copy Adler anatomy ($399) launched on Monday online and in baddest stores. Adler has additionally been called Aura's artistic administrator in abode for the abutting year and will architecture a additional frame.
Digital account frames were accepted about 10 years ago afore fizzling out. The frames were generally bulky and appropriate an SD anamnesis agenda loaded with photos. Aura, which launched in 2016, is acquisitive its avant-garde and affected booty on agenda frames will advice boom up action again.
The abstraction comes from veterans in the tech industry: Both co-founders Abdur Chowdhury and Eric Jensen ahead formed at Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) and AOL.
Using facial recognition, Aura's frames automatically creates photo collections of the bodies users booty pictures of the most. It avoids affairs in images with low adverse and poor resolution or those that are blurry, duplicates or accommodate dishabille by application a aggregate of AI and apparatus learning.
New photos are added to collections in absolute time -- and accompany and ancestors can accord shots remotely, too. You can additionally bash up to "love" the added picture, and being will get a notification.
The anatomy can be controlled with an accompanying app, or you can action to move it to the abutting photo (thanks to its congenital motion sensors). It additionally offers absolute storage.
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Attractive tech articles are a allotment of an arising trend. Samsung (SSNLF) has launched Anatomy TVs advised to attending like a affected allotment of art on your bank until they about-face on.
Meanwhile, Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) afresh adapted the attending of its aboriginal Echo acute apostle with new finishes like copse veneer, brushed metal and a heather blah fabric.
CNNMoney (New York) First appear October 16, 2017: 1:47 PM ET
