Before Ziff Davis Media's yearly DigitalLife blowout of consumer computer and electronic gadgetry, we have a summer press preview at the elegant Roosevelt Hotel near Grand Central Terminal. I was there to scope out interesting software and networking equipment, since covering events is the only way press riffraff can get past the doormen at respectable hotels.

Once safely inside, I squeezed through the crowd to the D-Link booth to see what was frequency-hopping. Among the new products the company was showing were devices from the unannounced D-Life line. I immediately spied them—or rather, they spied me, since they were Internet cameras. The first members of the family, the DHA-390 camera kit and the DHA-310, a kit with a camera and power-over-Ethernet adapter, will be announced officially on Monday, July 14 and start shipping that week. According to DLink's senior director of marketing, Daniel Kelley, there's virtually no installation process beyond plugging the devices in and going to the free D-Life.com Web site. An Internet-accessible photo frame will ship later this quarter.

The company was also demonstrating wired and combination wired/wireless-G network cameras announced on Monday, July 10—the D-Link DCS-910 and DCS-920 (shown at left), respectively. Users can access and control both via a Java-enabled browser. Prices start at $99.99.

More of the DigitalLife preview after the jump.

Read the rest of this post at Gearlog: "A Sneak Peek at the 'Digital Life' Gadgets"

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