This E-Ink digital photo frame helps you create your own masterpieces

AI has become the definitive buzzword for a wide range of technologies, gadgets, and software. But it may now be making way into our homes in an unusual way. SwitchBot, known for products that help you smart-ify various dumb aspects of your home — and also for quirky household robots disguised as stuffed toys — is now bringing AI to the humble photo frame.

SwitchBot has launched a new digital photo frame, called AI Art Frame, which it previously showcased at the IFA 2025 trade show in Berlin. Unlike a regular photo frame, this one is far more than a mere screen on the wall. Instead, it features a colored E-Ink Spectra 6 display with a paper-like texture and vivid colors that make your photos look like actual posters.

But that’s not the main highlight SwitchBot is promoting. Instead, you can create custom artwork using Gemini’s Nano Banana to display on the AI Art Frame. Although this isn’t an official collaboration with Google, the SwitchBot companion app integrates Gemini through its API, allowing you to generate a new image, modify an existing one, or blend two images using Nano Banana’s Remix functionality. Once you create the image, you can sync it with the photo frame wirelessly.

SwitchBot confirms that users will have the option to generate up to 400 free images in the first month as part of a 30-day free trial. However, when that ends, they will be required to pay $3.99 per month to continue generating images from within the app.

There’s no obligation if you don’t want to — or would rather generate images in your private Gemini space, giving you greater control over these images. SwitchBot says the frame can store up to 10 pictures and can cycle through them automatically.

If you switch the image only once a week, you can forget about charging the frame for the next two years. However, if you change images more frequently, the built-in 2,000mAh battery may not last as long. If you’d like, you can also switch out the frame with IKEA’s RÖDALM metal frames.

The AI Art Frame is available in three different sizes: 7.3-inch, 13.3-inch, and 31.5-inch, with prices starting at $149 for the smallest option and ranging up to $1,299 for the largest one. You can order it on SwitchBot’s website, where you can currently also avail up of a 20% discount.