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New memory cards with WiFi feature

Posted on 11.06.2007 at 18:45 in Tech News by Martin

It seems the world gets fed up with wires. The last updates are more than clear: no electrocity wires, no UTP cables, no memory card readers. We can do everything through the air! An unknown company Eye-Fi plans to release Secure Digital memory cards with integrated Wi-Fi chips. With the card, digital cameras will be able to automatically send photos to home PCs or to photo-sharing Web sites. The company is negotiating with about a dozen Web sites to allow direct uploads from cameras containing the cards, Eye-Fi founder and CEO Yuval Koren said. The card is set to cost about $100. Although he did not clarify their memory capacity, he strongly indicated that they would hold about 2 gigabytes. Many current cameras won’t easily accommodate larger cards, which have a slightly different format, he said. After 2GB, people should be downloading anyway, he added.

Eye-Fi’s cards are designed to conform to the standard SD card size; the cards contain enough spare real estate to incorporate a Wi-Fi chip. The networking functions on the card shut down when photos aren’t being sent in order to save battery life. Because the wireless functionality resides on the card, the networking functions won’t interfere with the camera, the company said. Thus, people can keep snapping away without worrying about the Wi-Fi chip hogging the camera’s processor. Users will be able to set the profile of the card to direct it to send photos either to a PC or a Web site, as well as whether to send the photos as they get taken or at the end of a photo session. The real challenge will be the price of such cards – it’s possible to buy 2 GB memory cards for something over 20 bucks nowaday, so $100 would mean a really big difference. But DVD burners cost a lot too and we all know how dirty cheap they are now…

Source: ZDnet 

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  1. Wankstar
    June 11th, 2007 | 18:46

    Firrrst…

  2. koutomo
    June 11th, 2007 | 19:37

    second…

    Is that the card on the pic? For me it looks qouite long, longer than a standard SD card…

  3. QuadrupelQ
    June 11th, 2007 | 19:56

    “Eye-Fi’s cards are designed to conform to the standard SD card size; the cards contain enough spare real estate to incorporate a Wi-Fi chip”

    Please learn to read koutomo…

    By the by, I like cables. So suck it modern wifi technology!

  4. Wankstar
    June 11th, 2007 | 19:57

    All this new technology… and the “internet”.. I’ll give it a week, then people will loose interest.

  5. Dan
    June 11th, 2007 | 20:41

    This is awesome! I am soo getting this! very useful!

  6. muppet
    June 11th, 2007 | 20:45

    I had one of these 2 years ago, i imagine they are now like USB host devices where they can work by themselves. Mine was the same but needed some kind of OS to work with it.

  7. Eoghan
    June 11th, 2007 | 22:07

    Heh, “electrocity”.
    You guys know about Firefox’ built in spellchecker, right? :p

  8. Doom
    June 11th, 2007 | 22:14

    Dont you just love those people who are always saying how better they are or that they have better things, you know that friend you have or had which if you say i have a 10 meter swimming pool he has a 20 meter, or that person who sees new technology and always writes i had that 2 years ago.

  9. nohm
    June 11th, 2007 | 22:16

    great, now people w/ a little know-how will be able to intercept my photos floating around in the air.. I pass.

  10. Pacino
    June 12th, 2007 | 04:26

    why what kind of photos are you snapping nohm…your momma…sorry I couldn’t resist

  11. elc
    June 12th, 2007 | 06:09

    the one in the pic, is an old one that has been availible for use wifi/gsm lacking pda’s for several years – indicated also by the size of it… 256mb

  12. nonamo
    June 12th, 2007 | 23:47

    indeed these types of SD card have been available for YEARS. not with 2GB, but the technology is not new:

    http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Aug/bpd20030811021243.htm
    http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDWSDB-000-768-Wireless-802-11b-Card/dp/B0000C4M1V
    http://mobilitytoday.com/article.php?a=000060&p=

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