Wireless SD Card at nyc.locationscout.us

LifeHacker: Stuff We Like | Add Wireless Sync To Your Camera with Eye-Fi | …via Gizmodo

“The Eye-Fi secure digital memory card adds Wi-Fi to any camera and supports automatic wireless uploading to your computer as well as tons of different web-based photo sites, from Flickr and Facebook to Picasa and the open source Gallery2.”

This may be old news to early adapters (the LifeHacker article above is dated 11/1/2007) but it is news to me!

Eye-Fi officially announced release of its Eye-Fi Card October 30, 2007.

News of gadgets like this make location scouts (like moi salivate!

…or at least seriously consider if the product has practical uses and whether it is worth the $99 price tag (or the hassle to return it?) to find out?

(Wikipedia – Secure Digital Card):

“Secure Digital (SD) is a flash (non-volatile) memory card format developed by Matsushita, SanDisk and Toshiba for use in portable devices, including digital cameras, handheld computers, PDAs, mobile phones and GPS units, as well as the Nintendo Wii video game console. SD card capacities range from 8 MB to 32 GB as of 2008, although sizes less than 128 megabytes are rarely sold in stores.”

What is unique about the Eye-Fi Card is that in addition to the storage media, it contains a wi-fi transmitter!

Manufacturer’s tech specs and requirements:

Technical Specifications –

Wi-Fi Security: Static WEP 40/104/128, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK

Range: 90+ feet outdoors and 45+ feet indoors

Storage Capacity: 2.0GB (1GB is defined as 10^9 Bytes)

Power: advanced power management optimizes use of camera power

Card Dimensions: SD standard 32mm x 24mm x 2.1mm

Card Weight: 0.1oz.

Requirements –

Eye-Fi Card requires Internet connection to set-up and WiFi network for wireless transfers

Eye-Fi Card works with virtually all digital cameras accepting SD memory cards

Eye-Fi Card works with 802.11g, 802.11b and backwards-compatible 802.11n wireless networks

Eye-Fi software runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X (10.3, 10.4 and 10.5)

Eye-Fi software works with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (Windows only), Firefox 2.0 (Windows and OS X) and Safari 3 ( OS X 10.4 -10.5)

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