Eye-Fi Card - wirelessly send your pictures to Live, Flickr and other sites
For Christmas my Wife did an amazing thing! She managed to find a gadget that I hadn't yet heard of! The Eye-Fi Card.
She tracked one down whilst we were in New York and presented it to me on Christmas Day!
If you haven't seen these cards yet it is basically a 2GB SD Memory Card with inbuilt WiFi that will allow you to automatically upload your pictures to sites such as Windows Live, Flickr, Picasa etc...
The card comes in a neat box that contains a USB SD Card Adapter. You simply plug this in (which contains the install software), setup the card to talk to your WiFi network and then setup which online service you want to automatically upload your pictures too.
I use Flickr and it literally took less than 5 minutes to have it up and running. Once you've set it up you don't need to have the USB adapter plugged into your PC at all.
The card supports PC and MAC and a large variety of cameras. It is worth checking if your camera is supported as despite there being a tiny amount of cameras that aren't... the first camera I tried it in (my Pentax Optio S5i) it wasn't supported :( The compatibility details are HERE
I love it when things are so simple yet so effective and this card is certainly a great example!
You can get more details HERE
Comments
Anonymous
February 02, 2008
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February 02, 2008
I agree this is a cool product and a great gift to get from your wife, but Eye-Fi hasn't generated a lot of buzz or "broken through" from a sales standpoint because it's aimed at a market that is getting less and less relevant (and economically viable) every day. Camera phones already outsell standalone cameras by a wide margin, and by this time next year the vast majority of camera phones sold will have camera features rivaling standalone cameras - with all the connectivity and automated sharing that Eye-Fi offers built in. Plus, people carry their camera phones everywhere, not just to "camera worthy" events which are known and planned for in advance. I think this means that by early 2009 most peoples' most memorable photos will be taken with their camera phones, and will finally be at a quality level that warrants sharing. If you haven't already, take a Nokia N95 or N82 - sorry, no Windows Mobile phones are worthy here - to your next couple of "camera worthy" events and I think you'll agree that Eye-Fi is a product whose time has almost passed.