Isabella Products

Vizit Named One of Top Tech Devices in Home Entertainment Category

Concord, Mass., November 12, 2009 – Isabella Products, a new Concord, MA-based consumer electronics company, announced today that Vizit has been chosen to receive a 2009 Best of What’s New Award from Popular Science in the Home Entertainment category.  Vizit is the first two-way, touch screen photo frame delivering images over the AT&T mobile network from anywhere in the world via email or MMS.  

Vizit leverages a unique combination of touch-screen technology, innovative software and cellular connectivity to create a rich, yet effortless, photo sharing experience.  Simply send a photo from your camera phone, computer or favorite photo sharing website to your Vizit frame and these photos will display within moments!  All photos sent to Vizit are automatically archived on a secure website, www.VizitMe.com , where Vizit owners can access, edit, delete and organize the photos on their frame.  Vizit features an intuitive full-touch display, real time photo sharing and remote photo management. With just a touch of the screen, users can share, reply to, forward, favorite, and delete any image on the frame. 

 

Each year, the editors of Popular Science review thousands of products in search of the top 100 tech innovations of the year, breakthrough products and technologies that represent a significant leap in their categories.  Best of What’s New awards are presented to 100 new products and technologies in 11 categories: Automotive, Aviation & Space, Computing, Engineering, Gadgets, Green Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Home Technology, Health and Recreation. All of the winners will be featured in the December special issue of Popular Science, which is on newsstands now.

 

“For 22 years, Popular Science has honored the innovations that surprise and amaze us − those that make a positive impact on our world today and challenge our views of what’s possible in the future,” said Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science. “The Best of What’s New Award is the magazine’s top honor, and the 100 winners − chosen from among thousands of entrants − represent the highest level of achievement in their fields.”

 

As a two-way device, Vizit allows users to both receive and send pictures to authorized photo senders, cultivating a private community of friends and family who are sharing their lives all at the same time.  With Vizit, parents can take a picture of their child’s first day of school in Boston from their camera phone, for example, and send it instantaneously to a Vizit frame sitting next to the proud grandparents in a San Francisco living room.  Images are delivered immediately to the Vizit frame, without any action required from the recipient.  When photos arrive on the frame, grandparents can effortlessly forward or send replies along to other friends and family directly from the frame. 

 

“The two-way capabilities of Vizit represent an evolution of the digital photo frame experience from  devices that have traditionally been used as simply a view-only option,” said Matthew I. Growney, Founder and CEO of Isabella Products. “The AT&T mobile network coverage will prove tremendously beneficial for Vizit and offer users an unparalleled opportunity for photo sharing and interaction.”

 

With an ultra-thin display, Vizit is wall mountable and is available in gunmetal with black or rosewood accents, and silver with white or teak accents measuring 10.9” wide x 7.4” high x .65” deep. The suggested retail price is $279.99, and requires a monthly or annual photo plan. Vizit will be available in early 2010 at www.VizitMe.com and other online retailers.

 

 

About Isabella Products, Inc.

Isabella Products, Inc. is a revolutionary new product company focused on developing innovative solutions for emerging consumer needs. With its initial product, Vizit™, Isabella enables consumers to interact with the billions of unshared images found within camera phones, PCs and the Internet by combining a state-of-the-art touch-screen display with wireless network capabilities. Vizit is the first two-way communication device using the mobile network for photo sharing, resulting in a truly interactive experience. Isabella Products is led by a world-class management team with deep experience in the consumer electronics industry. For more information, please visit www.isabellaproducts.com.

 

About Popular Science

Founded in 1872, Popular Science (www.popsci.com) is the world’s largest science and technology magazine, with a circulation of 1.3 million and 7.1 million readers. Each month, Popular Science delivers “The Future Now,” reporting on the intersection of science and everyday life with an eye toward what’s new and why it matters. Popular Science is published by the Bonnier Corporation (www.bonniercorp.com), one of the largest consumer publishing groups in America and the leading media company serving passionate, highly engaged audiences through more than 40 special-interest magazines and related multimedia projects and events.

 

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