Eye-Fi
I've been reading about so many exciting things the past few weeks that I haven't had time to write about them. Here's something that caught my eye-- Eye-Fi. This is a small SD card that slides into your digital camera that stores the pictures you take. What's different about this card is that it is also a wireless transmitter. So what does that mean?It means that you when you take a picture with your digital camera, the flash card in the camera automatically sends the image wirelessly with whatever wireless network might be available to your preselected location--which might be your Flickr account, your web site, or even to Costco's photo development counter. It does this without wires and without a computer. You can even use your old digital camera, just replace the flash card with this Eye-Fi card.
The company has been testing and preparing for product launch, but just opened a mailing list for if you want to be notified when it becomes available (some time this summer?). Just take a quick look at www.eye.fi or look at one of the blogs that have picked up on it, namely:
Robert Scoble's Microsoft Geek blog
QJ.net's photography blog
Matt Roberts' All Things Technology blog
Business Mobility blog
.
posted by Alan @ 20:00
1 Comments:
One thing to note is that if the card can't find a local wireless connection there is enough memory on the card to hold the images until it does.
Thus when your out in the country or hiking (like I do) you're not out of luck with this card. But once you're within range it cleans out the old images and makes space for new ones.
Its a pretty neat idea. cheers.:-)
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home