Lineage Labs Bevy drive and app let you take, consolidate and view photos on the fly.

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By Lance Ulanoff2015-02-18 07:26:35 UTC

Raise your hand if you feel buried by the number of photos you have on various devices or confused about which service or software to use to store and organize all of them for you and your family. Okay, thats everyone.

Were living in the midst of what can best be described as a photo-splosion. With nearly 2 billion smartphone owners in the world, weve become snappy-happy photographers. Every moment is worth capturing (and sharing, Facebook gets nearly 350 million photos per day). Increasingly, though, people are losing track of what they shot and where it lives. Its one of the reasons that recent software and product updates from companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have paid so much attention to photo management.

They all have their own organization tools and cloud storage. This is a good thing, unless youre a non-homogenous family, with iOS, Android, Windows and Amazon devices. Each one offers to auto store your photos and, as long as everyone is on the same platform, all can see and share the images. Even if thats the case, though, the baseline storage options offered by most isnt enough to store a familys worth of images and video (yes, you can always buy more storage).

As a result, a new class of products has emerged, led by Lyve Home, a 2 Terabyte box and free app that lets you store everyones photos in one place all they need to do is install the Lyve app on all devices (all platforms) and the app does the rest. Lyve is interesting because it also offers the option of using just the app. This way, photos are not copied to the cloud or a network-attached storage (NAS). Instead everyone sees thumbnails of all the photos in the Lyve collective. If they tap on thumb, they pull the full image from the source (which may be someone elses phone) with permission, of course.

The 1 terabyte Bevy photo storage and sharing system from Lineage Labs.

Now another startup, Lineage Labs, is entering the photo management fray. Like Lyve, it tries to solve the photo conundrum by centralizing photo and video storage on a 1 TB drive and service called Bevy, a name chosen because it means "a large collection of things."

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Bevy wants to get your photos and videos out of their digital sandboxes