Volumes sold are doubling each week the retailer said, as people finally go mad for digital frames – which have become a lot more affordable and numerous this year. The news has been trundled out with the premise that they could lead to a decline in the traditional postcard – even the saucy seaside cartoon ones – which is doubtful.

Niall O’Keeffe from PC World said: “If you’re on holiday or for that matter at a party – wherever you are really – you can send digital pictures direct to the frame via an Internet connection. We suspect that this will lead to a decline in the postcard as this digital alternative emerges, though whether or not we’ll see a similar level of sauciness in the pictures is anyone’s guess!”

Shopping site Kelkoo has confirmed that the UK has gone digital photo frame bonkers, saying the most popular search right now is not – shock/horror - the elusive Wii – but 'digital picture frame'.

Still, on Christmas morning, I guarantee that ‘little Johnny’ will kick you in the balls if you give him one of these to make up for the Wii you failed to order early enough.-Martin Lynch

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The Archos 105 certainly fits the bill, with a small 1.8in OLED display and 2GB of storage crammed into a chassis that measures 1.8 x 3.3 x 0.3in. I guess that means that the A1 from Thomson is no longer the smallest PMP on the planet.

It’s fair to say that you won’t be getting pristine visuals from the 160 x 128 pixel display but it is diverting nonetheless. The display supports 262,000 colours and the 105 will play WMV files at 25fps.

On the audio front it will play MP3, WMA, Protected WMA and WAV files. And don’t forget, it’s only going to cost around £55 when it lands next month in black, red and white flavours.-Martin Lynch

[Archos Lounge]

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