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Eye-Fi for every eye

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

I just came across a really neat technology that will really help certain customers reduce some of the hassle of uploading photos from your digital camera to your computer (or sites like flickr or facebook).  Eye-Fi is a memory card (SD format) that allows for you to wirelessly upload photos to your computer or favorite photo sharing website. All you have to do is pop in your new memory card in your camera (see image below).  Even though wireless digital cameras are out on the market, they are still a relatively newer technology that is still a bit pricey compared to regular cameras.  Furthermore, most camera owners are still happy with their current model and have no intentions of upgrading in the next few years.  This is a great bridge technology that makes it really easy for the average user to upgrade their current camera.  This has great implications for frequent bloggers, facebook addicts, and people who wait for ever to upload their photos (trips, vacations, parties and events).

*FYI – at CES ‘09, Eye Fi announced that their newer chips will allow for wireless uploading of videos to your computer and even youtube!
This is a diagram from the Eye-Fi site on how the technology works
Eye-Fi