Consumer electronics and blockchain combination is making headway, following Samsung’s announcement yesterday, Netgear has integrated MetaMask, a crypto wallet, inside its Meural smart photo frame, allowing it to show NFT artworks.
Netgear announced the upgrade at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, allowing Meural owners to connect their MetaMask wallet to their smart frame and display NFTs stored in the wallet. According to tech publication The Verge, the integration is now in beta testing.
A 15.6-inch photo frame (priced at $299.95) and bigger 21-inch and 27-inch Canvas smart frames (priced at $399.95 and $599.95, respectively) are part of Netgear’s Meural line.
Each of the three devices has a 1080p display and Wi-Fi. Users can use an attached app or a MicroSD card to display photographs and slideshows from their phone or tablet, subscribe to curated collections of artwork, and purchase individual artworks using the Meural app.
Meural owners will be able to connect to their MetaMask wallet through the Meural online platform and select NFTs to be displayed on the smart frame, along with a verifiable QR code and metadata, with the future crypto wallet integration.
“It’s not complicated,” Netgear Meural’s head of product and content, Poppy Simpson, told VentureBeat. “It enables digital artists to market a unique piece of work.”
This isn’t the first time that NFTs have been displayed on Meural smart frames. Netgear and NFT platform Async Art joined in July 2021 to add their artworks to the Meural art library, allowing customers to view a selected collection for a $69.95 yearly subscription charge.
That collaboration, however, did not grant Meural users ownership of Async Art’s NFTs, nor did it allow Meural users to display NFT art that they owned.
