The digital picture frame is a gadget that hasn’t reached its full potential. It’s taken the basic concept of the digital picture frame and reimagined it as something bigger and more ambitious, a smart, internet-connected screen that was built as a platform for showcasing great art. Electric Objects is the brainchild of Jake Levine, a former Betaworks employee who helped lead the resurrection of Digg. Levine was inspired by thinkers from Xerox Parc, who predicted back in the 1990s that the PC era would be followed by an era of calm technology in which computing would happen at the periphery of our awareness.