Looqs press Release


Looqs

OUR COMPANY
LOOQS is a brand new company (established early 2009), engaged in the design, distribution and marketing of electronic lifestyle products worldwide.

Main focus: Multimedia Streaming Solutions!

With its head quarters based in The Netherlands, and the newly opened USA branch office, LOOQS is ready at CES 2010 for showing visitors, both consumers or resellers, brand new products and services. Our company is at the cutting edge of digital convergence technologies and is in prime position to take advantage of the exponential growth in this market over the coming years.

THE ‘Q’ IN LOOQS
Why the ‘Q’ in LOOQS? The ‘Q’ stands for Quintessential, and quintessence literally fifth essence (from Latin quinta essentia) has existed since the beginning of time. In modern times, lifestyle may be the most important component of our lives after family and work. With Quintessential Lifestyle, you can enjoy a heavenly range of leisure activities and products from one single source, LOOQS!

OUR PRODUCTS
The LOOQS product range caters within the digital living and digital business area, offering a range of multimedia storage and streaming solutions. The broad product range includes wireless Digital Photo Frames, Network attached storage devices, Digital Media Adapters and in the near future much more...

OUR MARKETS
Specialized in digital living products, our main focus is the consumer and B2B market. For local and international suppliers, LOOQS offers instant retail market penetration with marketing & logistics support and services.

OUR MISSION
Our mission is to develop innovative new products that makes it easier to store, manage and enjoy digital content such as photos, music and movies in the home environment, and eventually share this content with the rest of the world.

LOOQS is ready to launch many new products in the area of wired and wireless networking, entertainment and storage to enable consumers to readily experience the freedom, the excitement and the empowerment of the connected lifestyle. Get the LOOQS!

'Content is king' on MeeBox

The Netherlands – December 2009 – LOOQS introduces its newly designed media server MeeBox that works seamlessly with other MeeSeries products and services. It's a unique combination of beauty on the outside and smart technology on the inside.

Imagine you could download, store, manage, backup and share all your favorite multimedia files directly onto one device in your house at any time you like. It is now possible with MeeBox!

Meebox is a high quality media server and a stylish electronics lifestyle product that will serve you in every way you like and wherever you are.

MeeBox is available in two versions, MeeBox Router and MeeBox NAS. MeeBox Router is similar to MeeBox NAS but it also has an integrated wireless router. Both of the boxes are available with one or two hard drives of 500 GB or 1 TB. As they support RAID 0/1 you can use the second hard drive as additional storage space or as a secure backup-drive.

On top of acting as your network storage device, both MeeBox versions offer several other interesting features as well. The integrated iTunes server makes it possible to play all your music with iTunes from MeeBox on your PC or Mac. Next to that there are a BitTorrent download client, a UPnP media server, a web server and a print server. Furthermore MeeBox comes with several pre-installed web applications like a file manager, photo gallery, blog server and web forum. It lets you do whatever you like with the content that is stored on MeeBox.

Store and share

MeeBox is the perfect storage and sharing solution for all your multimedia files. Not only can you access all stored files from every PC within the same network, but also from UPnP-supported media players, like MeeFrame and MeeCeiver.
MeeBox can be used to stream photos to multiple MeeFrames which was introduced in autumn 2009. Photos, music and videos can be streamed to your television set by using MeeCeiver which will be released early 2010.

Enjoy your multimedia with MeeSeries!

The Netherlands – December 2009 – A brand new MeeSeries product line has been introduced recently by the “designer electronics” brand LOOQS. The MeeSeries product line makes it easier to store, manage and enjoy your multimedia files within a network.

As more and more digital content like photos, music and videos find its way into people’s living rooms, solutions are needed to manage and enjoy this content in an easy and straightforward manner with products which ‘looqs’ great and fits seamlessly within your home interior. LOOQS has created the perfect solution for this by introducing the MeeSeries!

The MeeSeries includes several ‘Mee-components’ which all have their own features and functionalities, but fit perfectly together design-wise and create added value in combination with one another. Let’s introduce the MeeSeries components one by one:

MeeBox

MeeBox is your central media server and offers you centralized downloading, storage space, file management, data backup and file sharing of all your favorite multimedia files directly onto one device in your house at any time you like.

MeeBox is available in two versions, MeeBox Router and MeeBox NAS. MeeBox Router is similar to MeeBox NAS but it also has an integrated wireless router. Both of the boxes are available with one or two hard drives of 500 GB or 1 TB.

MeeFrame

With MeeFrame you can enjoy your personal digital photos and shared photos of your friends and relatives very easily. MeeFrame can play photos which are either stored locally (Internal memory / Memorycard / USB Device) or online (MeeChannel.com / Flickr / Picasa). By adding MeeBox to your MeeFrame you can also play and enjoy all photos which are stored on your central media hub.

Furthermore you can also use MeeFrame to get weather information, keep up-to-date with the latest news, listen to music and internet radio and use it as your alarm clock.

MeeCeiver

With MeeCeiver you can wirelessly stream photos, music and video files to your regular television set which are stored on your PC or MeeBox. Because MeeCeiver has a direct connection to the internet you can also stream online stored photos (MeeChannel.com / Flickr / Picasa), watch YouTube videos and listen to internet radio stations.

But there is more! MeeCeiver is also equipped with the so called ‘Device Sharing’ feature which makes it possible to directly access, download and stream files stored on one of your friend’s MeeCeiver.

MeeChannel.com

MeeChannel.com is a free online service and your personal gateway to photo storage, management and exchange. The MeeSeries products have been developed to work seamless with MeeChannel.com.

You can register your MeeFrame or MeeCeiver within your personal MeeChannel account and start enjoying your personal MeeChannel photos, shared photos of friends and relatives and different categories of public photos directly onto your MeeFrame or your television.

It is also possible to register a MeeCeiver of one of your friends within your account to enable the ‘Device Sharing’ feature on your own MeeCeiver.

Discover the 'digital photo frame 2.0' with MeeFrame

The Netherlands – November 2009 – LOOQS announces its new digital photo frame MeeFrame, that is available now worldwide. MeeFrame is not like a ‘regular digital photo frame’. It is a high-quality photo frame for your digital photos but with many interactive functions integrated, like full touch screen control, keep up-to-date with the latest news and listen to internet radio stations.

“Now that all of our photos are digitalized, they are stored on our computers and we don't do anything with them. With MeeFrame we bring back the photo experience of the past”, says Pieter Havermans, product manager of LOOQS. “Plus we added some fantastic interactive tools to make it more fun.”

MeeFrame is a digital photo frame with an 8 inch touch screen to view photos from a local source like an USB-drive, SD/MMC-card or the internal memory of 1 GB. It can also display the photos that are stored on MeeBox - which will be introduced later this year - or photos that are published on your account at MeeChannel.com, Flickr or Picasa. These photos are streamed live from the internet over a WiFi connection (IEEE 802.11 b/g).

Next to that MeeFrame has a digital music player integrated, Shoutcast internet radio stations and a reader for real time news and information. It can also be used as an alarm clock to wake you up each morning with your favorite song.

From the start MeeFrame will be available with the support of eight languages ( English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish and Greek). More languages and new to be added features will be included later on via firmware updates.

Online sharing on www.MeeChannel.com

MeeFrame has been developed to work in seamless connection with MeeChannel.com. MeeChannel.com is a free online photo sharing service, which is fully compatible with each LOOQS MeeFrame. At MeeChannel.com you can store, edit and organize your favorite photos and share them with your friends and relatives all over the world. By connecting your MeeFrame with MeeChannel.com, you can easily access your online photos directly in your living room, and even send photos directly to someone else's MeeFrame.