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That Acanvas self-charging design is brilliant. You hang up the painting above a wall socket and it drops a cord down to the socket to charge when the battery gets low. Then it pulls the cord back up so it appears wireless the majority of the time.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acanvas/acanvas-the-cor...

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> Early birds can grab one of the $499 devices for $399 and get a year's free Netflix-for-art subscription, which'll set everyone else back $120.

So their plan is to charge more than Netflix, but for public domain pictures that are tied to specific hardware? Yeah, no thanks.

The video shows three canvases next to each other, how would the ones on the sides charge? Most people don't have three wall sockets spaced exactly like how they show the three frames

https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/011/165/794/c4b7b104c6d147d...

This animated GIF shows it dropping into a "receptacle" which is just a box with a cord, presumably plugged in to the nearest actual receptacle.

Interesting idea, for sure.

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