Too lazy to upload?

[lsanderson]

Just Forget All the Muss, Your Photos Will Now Upload Themselves

By ROY FURCHGOTT

If you’ve ever looked at a digital camera full of photos and thought, “Best get to it, those pictures aren’t going to upload themselves,” you can think again.

Eye-Fi has created a memory card with a built-in Wi-Fi transmitter that will automatically upload your photos to any of 17 photo sites when you are within range of a designated wireless network.

The 2-gigabyte SD memory card looks like any other, but it has a small antenna and Wi-Fi service inside. For setup, the card must be in the supplied card reader and formatted to recognize the right network.

If you use a photo sharing site like Shutterfly, Flickr or Facebook,the card will send photos over the Internet to Eye-Fi, which then formats them for the site. It also automates sign-in and passwords so that your photos seem to appear magically.

The $100 Eye-Fi card and reader is available online from Amazon, Buy.com and Wal-Mart.

ROY FURCHGOTT

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

oh my god. i have got to get me one of those before i have a kid. wow.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

There are a also a number of P&S cameras that come already WIFI-enabled.

Of course, the only format they make won't fit any of the professional cameras, including mine. I can get Nikon's WT-2 (or maybe it's the -3 for my model, don't remember now), which probably does more -- but costs $600, so pretty definitively not worth it.

Oh, and read the fine print on the web site -- it won't work on open sites that require a browser logon first, so you probably can't use it in, for example, hotels. Well, through the official access point, anyway.