System and method for exchange of digital data from personal appliances

A system and method are provided for facilitating remote exchange of digital data from remote personal appliances for example digital cameras (146). The system comprises a stand-alone kiosk (103) with a computer system (106) located therein. The computer system (106) includes a processor (109) linked to a local interface (116) and a memory (113) linked to the local interface (116). The local interface (116) may be, for example, a data bus and a control bus. A personal appliance interface (133) is linked to the local interface (116) to facilitate communication with one of a number of personal appliances (146). The system also includes exchange logic (150) stored on the memory (113) and executed by the processor (109). The exchange logic (150) includes logic to poll a personal appliance (146) via the personal appliance interface (133) to obtain a personal appliance designation, logic to compare the personal appliance designation with a number of stored device designations from a driver library to determine an associated personal appliance driver, and logic to employ the associated personal appliance driver to establish a data transfer link with the personal appliance (146).