Meural Canvas, is a Wi-Fi-enabled digital canvas built to showcase artwork. Each frame gives you instant access to 20,000+ works of art and photography, and it’s easy to upload your own. Meural’s proprietary technology renders each image as lifelike and textured as a real painting.
Desktop digital picture frames have largely faded away, a side effect of the ubiquity of smartphones. Now the next thing to go digital is the artwork on your wall, such as the latest connected-art canvas from New York City-based Meural.
The 27-inch, 1920×1080 display is large enough to be a focal point on your wall or fireplace mantle, and it taps into a collection of more than 20,000 pieces of art via an 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter and a companion Android or iOS app. Access to the collection is included in the $495 price of the frame (a “Lightbox” model sells for $595).
The frame has 8GB of built-in memory, so you can store a number of works at once. Wave your hand in front of the gesture sensors built into the frame, and you can scroll through your favorite pieces.
Meural has pretty rad gestural control, though their sensors in the first version are a bit flaky. They also have an app and a web interface. The E01 is only controlled via their app or their web interface.
”This is actually one of the best perks of purchasing a Meural canvas,” said Meural CEO and co-founder Vladimir Vukicevic. “We have a huge collection of art available for users to take advantage of and experiment with right off the bat,”
Vukicevic and his team set up partnerships with Eyes on Walls, Lomography, the New York Public Library, and others sources so that it would not be required to charge its customers additional subscription fees.
Meural combines the best of art, technology, and design to create products that make us feel something. It’s our goal to make art universally accessible, and a part of people’s daily lives.
Art is for everyone, and we’re dedicated to bringing it into homes of all shapes and sizes. It’s our mission to democratize art.