Eye-Fi has just announced the release of their new wireless SD memory card for digital cameras. The card, which they have been beta testing over the last year and a half, connects your local wi-fi network and automatically uploads photos stored on the card to your computer or to one of 17 online photo sharing services and social networks. The 2GB SD card is now available and is priced at $99.99.
Eye-Fi uses home wireless networks to eliminate the time-consuming chore of dealing with cables, card readers or software plug-ins associated with uploading photos. Users simply turn on their digital camera and their pictures are wirelessly uploaded. The Eye-Fi Card works with existing and new SD-compatible digital cameras and stores photos like a conventional SD memory card.
Last year I met with Eye-Fi CEO Yuval Koren who showed me an early prototype of their wireless SD card and I participated in their early beta program.
UPDATE: Here’s more coverage from Technology Review & Gizmodo.
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That thing is like magic! I’ve been using it for the past year and can’t believe someone didn’t make this sooner. Totally changed how I use my camera.
Amit
p.s. Amazon shows 3-5 weeks, but we’re shipping it from the Photojojo store within a week! http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/eye-fi-wifi-memory/
Holy crap that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever heard. Right now I’m using my iPhone and the 3rd party app pushr to accomplish something similar, but being able to use my real camera would be HUGE! I’m definitely putting this on my christmas wishlist.
Scott, how was your experience with the beta? This really looks amazing. what a great invention. I think a bluetooth companion would also be cool. I’m just wondering how the wifi capabilities translate outside.
Wow! That’s awesome! Okay I have to look for that!
Love to see how it works … I’d almost like to load to my machine first, then something like Flickr.
Michael, it worked great for me. At the time I was shooting much more on CF, so I didn’t really get to use it as much. Also, when I was testing it, they hadn’t rolled out partnerships with all of the photo sharing sites yet, so that will make it even better.
I was a beta tester on this and it worked amazingly well. A bit of battery drain but all in all it uploaded to Flickr flawlessly. I can’t wait to get my production unit!
Jason,
Can you comment on the battery drain? I’d love to use this as well but with the expensive CRV3 batteries I use on my K100D, I’d rather not get this Wi-Fi card if it’s going to be a big drain.
Thanks!