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Long Distance Friendship Frame

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Long Distance Friendship Frame

Created by John Harrison and Vanessa Whalen

Light up loved ones' favorite photos, across town or across the world, with these in-sync photo frames.

$125.00 - $250.00

Independent Maker

Made in USA

What Makes It Uncommon

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Love & Light

Light up someone's favorite photo—across town or across the world—with a pine wood picture frame that displays the picture of your choice. (The back comes off, so you can change the photo as often as you like.) Where the matting would be on a traditional frame, there's translucent glass that lights up and changes color. Touch yours, and its mate emits the same glow, no matter where in the world it is. Each person sets up their frame via Wi-Fi, then reaches out and touches it whenever they want to send a little "thinking of you." Want to create a group? You can assign each person their own color of light. The frames can stand up on their own or be hung on a wall, oriented either horizontally or vertically. Designed by John Harrison and Vanessa Whalen. Assembled in Kansas.

Pair your frame with either or both of our Long Distance Friendship Lamps.

Learn how to set up your frame.

Please Note: The vendor has added a paid Remote Touch feature to the app for this product that unlocks the ability to send and receive touches through the app when you are away from your lamp. This feature is completely optional. No subscription is required for the lamp's base functionality—to operate through physical touch.

About the Maker

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created by

John Harrison and Vanessa Whalen

“I see magic everywhere I look, but making something--then I get to touch the magic.”

When John Harrison and Vanessa Whalen first met, John was Associate Professor of Violin at Wichita State University and Vanessa was a pianist accompanying his students. Instantly friends, they did not start dating until many years later. By then, John had developed a second career as an electrical and computer engineer and Vanessa was a psychotherapist in private practice. John proposed to Vanessa on Christmas morning 2014 and their first touch lamps were also gifted that year. The two built them in their basement to connect John's family members spread out across the US and Canada. John now works with nonprofits to assemble the lamps while contributing back to the community. By marrying Vanessa, John also gained two sons, Brendan and Sean. The family now enjoys a blended household of dogs, as well as a small school of goldfish. John and Vanessa also founded a startup which develops mobile apps for kids to help them learn about and manage their feelings.

Visit the blog for a Q&A session with John that touches on the beauty of code, the power of capacitive sensing, and much, much more.

Explore the full collection by John Harrison and Vanessa Whalen

Made from

brass, glass, cardboard, mylar, pine, electronics

Measurements

9" L x 7.25" W x 2.5" H; Fits up to a 5x7" photo

Care

Clean with a dry cloth

Notes

Sold individually or in pairs (make your choice in the pull-down quantity menu). Requires power (100-240V AC) and WPA, WPA2, WEP or open Wi-Fi connection. Does not work with captive portals such as found at public Wi-Fi locations or with WPA Enterprise used in some academic and corporate environments.

Requires a 2.4 GHz connection, does not work with 5 GHz connection.

Frame illumination timer has a default setting to fade off in 1.5 hours but can be set to fade off in 1/2 hour, 1.5 hours, 8 hours or 24 hours.

One-step set-up requires access to your home router.

PLEASE NOTE: This item is built to U.S. electronics specifications and may need additional modifications or converters to be used in countries other than the U.S. and Canada.

Item ID

51526

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