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WiFi on SD card: Eye-Fi!

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Josh Bancroft

on April 25, 2006

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WiFi on SD card: Eye-Fi!, originally uploaded by scobleizer.

From Scoble’s Flickr photostream.

Does that do what I think it does?!

Acts like an SD card to the camera, but transfers the photos wirelessly?

That is an insanely great idea. How come no one thought of this before?! That would turn any SD-compatible camera into a WiFi enabled camera.

~~Robert, you have to give us more info on this.~~ Here’s Robert’s post on the demo of this he got, and here’s a link to the Eye-Fi site (careful googling that name - I got a lot of pr0n links when I went looking).

Availability: hopefully this year. Price? Around $100. Assuming there’s a way to get the photos to upload directly to Flickr easily (if not directly from the card, than in software on the PC), then Robert’s photos and blog posts just made you at least one sale, Yuval.

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6 Responses to “WiFi on SD card: Eye-Fi!”

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1 Navdeep
April 25, 2006 at 7:43 pm

Isn’t it funny how the best inventions are always the ones where we go: “Gee.. why didn’t anyone think of that before?”
2 Yuval Koren
April 25, 2006 at 9:18 pm

Josh: Kudos for ‘getting it’ based only on Robert’s Flickr comment. Yes, you will be able to go to online destinations (a la Flickr) directly from the card, no PC required.
3 Josh Bancroft
April 25, 2006 at 9:23 pm

Yuval, that is awesome, excellent news. Can’t wait to try it out - let me know if you need any beta testers/evangelists.

I’ve been saying for a while that I’ll buy the first wireless digital camera that can upload directly to Flickr. Sounds like now I’ll still be able to use my favorite camera, and not be tied to one camera’s features, limitations, etc.

Can you tell I’m excited about this?
4 TOCA
May 3, 2006 at 6:35 am

How does this differ from other SD cards whith build in WiFi and memory?

We have been using them for more than a year i PDA’s now.

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