• james
• Sep 8,2008
• In: Technology

Eye-Fi Gives any Camera Wi-Fi and Geo-Location

Eye-fi is a magical orange SD memory card that will not only store 2GB worth of pictures, it’ll upload them to your computer (All Eye-Fis), and to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa (or 14 others) (Eye-Fi Explore and Eye-Fi Share), even geo-tag them so you can see exactly where in the world you took the photo (Eye-Fi Explore) wirelessly, invisibly, automatically!

This little guy looks like a normal 2GB memory card and works with nearly any camera that takes SD memory. There are no antennas, no protrusions, no subscription fees, and no cables.

This is the sickest thing to happen to photography since the nip-slip. You take a picture while in the vicinity of your Wi-Fi network and instantly it’s on your facebook and flickrr accounts, and already uploaded to your computer’s hard drive. If you’re not near your Wi-Fi network, the pictures will upload instantly as soon as the Camera is in range of the network. Eye-Fi will also geo-tag your pictures so you can search by location when viewing your favorite photos.

Just imagine, your camera will know what bar you’re taking sloppy 4am photos at even when you don’t! Now that’s impressive. The product sells from the manufacture for $130, but you can get it on Amazon for $109. For under $110, Eye-Fi is a steal. This Wi-Fi, Geo-Location add-on also functions as a 2GB memory card. Best of all, you can stick it in any digital camera with an SD slot, effectively upgrading any old clunker of a camera to the hottest thing on the market.

Unless you’re a photography buff, Eye-Fi should eliminate your need for a new camera. I have a 5-year-old Canon Digital Elph that shoots at 5.0 Megapixels, and for photos to save, print, or share online, that resolution is plenty. The 2 Megapixel Camera on my iPhone would work just fine for everything I need it for if it only had a flash!

Once you get up into the 10+ megapixel range, the file sizes are just enormous and if you’re not a professional photographer it’s more of a hassle than a benefit. Eye-Fi breathes new life into the generation of cameras that are a bit behind the “cutting edge” models, but still years ahead of cell-phone camera technology.

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