One of my favorite features of Google’s Chromecast is the way it turns our TV into a family photo slideshow.

It sounds trivial, I know, but the fact that Chromecast integrates directly with Google Photos — where my wife and I back up our billions of baby pictures (along with the other few photos mixed in here and there) — means that anytime our TV is on and we aren’t streaming something, we’re treated to an ongoing montage of memories without any real effort on our behalf. We love it, and practically everyone who visits our house does, too. (Or they at least pretend to for our benefit, anyway. Either way, we’re happy.)

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