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April 3rd, 2007, 12:38 GMT · By Robert Ursache

Electromagnetic Photo Frame Keeps Your Pictures Floating

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Frames are products that were used often in communist or Nazi propaganda. Imagine the faces of Hitler and Stalin floating in this German electromagnetic photo frame. Suspended and animated dictators! Who in the world thought we'd come to see this! This device might sound interesting especially if you're too laizy to print your photos
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The Funice electromagnetic photo frame could actually make your family float in the air. Here's how it works. The photo frame comes with a magnetic field sensor on the top and a microprocessor and electronic sensors at the base in order to display and control a magnetic field. The result is the display of a uniform "picture" in a determined volume of space. I'm guessing that its magnetic field sensor constantly measures the height of the photo display while the microprocessor and the electronic sensors calculate and control the distance between the photo and the frame. Your computer evaluates these data and steers the electromagnets accordingly in order to move the pictures up and down. A magnet is actually keeping the frame attached when the mechanism is turned off.

The Funice is arc shaped and measures 4, 88 X 3, 27 inches (12.4 cm X 8.3 cm) while the black plastic handle has an overall height of 6, 69 inches (17 cm). The arc's rainbow-hued LED light will surely make your kids love the device. You can view up to two photos on both sides of the frame. The interesting part is that the photos will move at the slightest "air movement". The device retails just a cent short of 50 Euros.

I bet that if Stalin were still alive, he'd be using this levitating photo gadget. Stalin would look God-like in a giant floating picture! Maybe a future Big Brother will use this in its propaganda.

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