Juice Box

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The Juice Box is a low cost Mattel multimedia player with a small screen (2.7" / 240x160px). It was marketed as a portable media player for kids. The player only played a proprietary cartridge format. Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network put some of their shows on cartridges. However, the small screen and poor quality (6 frames/second max) alienated most people. Furthermore, the device entered a crowded market. Its most potent rival was the Game Boy Advance, which not only had TV shows, but could also play video games. Thus many retail stores were left with a surplus of the device. Original retail price was about 70 dollars, but stores soon sold them at about two dollars apiece.

It runs uClinux under the hood. Often it is hacked into a digital photo frame.

See homemade hacks for examples of such hacks.

Or you can go to http://www.elinux.org/wiki/JuiceBox for more hacks.