May 12, 2008

Eye-Fi adds two new wireless memory cards to their product line-up

Greg Kumparak

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Eye-Fi announced two new wireless memory cards today, and they’ve dubbed their original card with a new name.


The new line-up:

  • Eye-Fi Explore: The Explore card can automatically locate nearby WiFi networks and geotag your photos using Skyhook’s global Wi-Fi positioning system. It can also automatically connect to any of Wayport’s 10,000+ hotspots (in other words, pretty much every McDonald’s in the US). MSRP $129.
  • Eye-Fi Share: The original Eye-Fi card with a new name. It allows users to automatically upload photos straight to their favorite photo sharing service over WiFi. MSRP $99.
  • Eye-Fi Home: This one’s for the folks who transfer a lot of photos to their computer, but don’t need them to be auto uploaded to any photo sharing sites. The Home allows users to transfer photos directly to their PC without the use of cables, card readers, or docks. Pretty much the same card as the Share, without the sharing part. MSRP $79.

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  1. Matt

    pretty cool! Hopefully you don’t have to pay the $3/hour to use the wayport networks.

  2. TranceMist

    Geotagging via WiFi hotspots is of no use beyond dense urban areas.

  3. Debbie Downer

    I’m with TranceMist. Everything in this world sucks. The world needs people like us to bring everyone down. Who cares if there are actually a lot of cool uses for something, always remember to look at the downside!

  4. Ted

    I agree with Debbie. Transmist sucks in the most spectacular way. I’m soo jealous.

  5. Geoff

    I really, really, really like this idea.

    I’m going to order one for my little digital, but I hope they decide to make one for the Canon (Compact Flash) that I shoot 99% of my photos with….

    Geoff

  6. Richard

    Geoff; there is a CF adaptor.

  7. nj

    Love this idea & the different products. I don’t have much use for the geotagging, but I know 3 or 4 people who need this! How many of you have friends or family that ask when they get their digital camera:

    “So how do I get these on my computer?”

    or

    “I want to email these to a friend, now what?”

  8. Trebor Elbocs

    It does not say if the geotagging creates XMP sidecars. Kinda pointless if you do not shoot JPG.

    My dream card would be a GPS aware memory card that is able to geotag RAW pictures. Wireless upload to local server would be a plus but only for extra points.