Wi-Fi Camera Card Wins Gadget Prize
- added January 10, 2008
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- richjm
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The $100 or (roughly) £50 Eye-Fi card, which has 2GB of memory, uses Wi-Fi to instantly zap pictures to computers and to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa (or 14 other sites Eye-Fi Inc. have partnered with) wirelessly, invisibly and automatically.
This sounds great and it's something I'd willingly use but does this product really have longevity? Surely it's only a matter of time before digital cameras come with Wi-Fi and its hefty price tag is a bit of a deterrent. Ominously, the winner of the Last Gadget Standing contest's future isn't always assured. In 2004 the winner was Tapwave Zodiac, a handheld digital assistant with multimedia features. The company went bankrupt in 2005.
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Fancy having something like this on your camera phone?
Shozu allows you to snap a picture and immediately upload it to your favourite social networking site or photography site, like Flickr or Facebook, straight from your phone.
It's free and fairly easy to set up. I use this myself and haven't had any problems so far.
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Isn't this already called Bluetooth?
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Bluetooth's only short range though so you'd need to be near to your computer. Eye-fi's makers are pushing that fact that because they're using Wi-Fi, you can take a picture in a bar or at a party and upload the pictures straight to the web in real time.
It could be quite handy for if you're on holiday and you want to show off the pool to friends at home while they're trapped at work, I suppose.
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i love the""wirelessly, invisibly and automatically.""
it will be hack'd like blu/tooth...lol
ill still drive around on saturdayz and get all kinds of wild pic's,music and vid's 4 the free giveing......
run sheep run....consume as many as u can..!!!-
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- knowonesreal
- 11 months ago
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Ennnh...not so fast.
My old cohorts @ Kodak actually came out with the first Wi-Fi camera a couple years ago - the EasyShare One.
The concept was pretty good - images would be sent via WiFi directly to the customer's Ofoto/Kodak Gallery online account and could instantly be shared, etc...however, we found that not everyone wanted to switch to Ofoto from their main online photo account (Snapfish, Shutterfly, Flickr). Oh well.
I do like the direction this is going, though, with the ability to send to Flickr, et al.
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I've been interested in technology like this ever since I heard about law enforcement in Hunters Point confiscating cameras and video devices that document their abuses. Power to the people!
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- solszewski
- 10 months ago
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