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Scobleizer: Eye-Fi: Solving the digital photography pain

  • Dileepa P · 3 years ago
    That's good tech. put to great use.

    I have a question... where is the post titled "The $100 million decision"? I received an alert for this and it's been removed...
  • Robert Scoble · 3 years ago
    Sorry, Omar called me and said "that's not supposed to be released until next week."

    I screwed up. I'll repost that next week.
  • Rob Chartier · 3 years ago
    You could also just get a camera with either BlueTooth or Wireless support. I know, I know, sending files over BlueTooth really sucks, but the Wireless connection seems interesting.

    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/koda...

    Now if they will only include a GPS device with the Camera and tag the photo with the exact location it was taken...
  • Robert Scoble · 3 years ago
    Rob: the problem is that more than 100 million cameras are out there that don't have WiFi support and more are being sold every day. Also, the software on the WiFi computers sucks and you're stuck with what Nikon or Canon programmed in (you couldn't enable sending photos to Flickr directly, for instance, like his product will).
  • Yuval Koren · 3 years ago
    "Now if they will only [...] tag the photo with the exact location it was taken..."

    Rob: Stay tuned.
  • Jake · 3 years ago
    Around $100 for what exactly?
  • Andy Simpson · 3 years ago
    That's amazing. Wow. One step closer to Wi-Fi being in everything! I'm looking forward to that day with baited breath.
  • Chris Lundie · 3 years ago
    I would love to know how this works. Does the SD card appear to be a shared folder on the network? Or maybe it's the world's smallest HTTP server.
  • apollyon · 3 years ago
    So, I guess this is going to require me to break the little metal doors that cover the meomry card slot. I like the solid feel and heft of a metal clad camera, none of that light weight plastic stuff from Kodak, HP etc.
    So this product will be worthless to me.
  • Chris Wood · 3 years ago
    Robert... it would be too simple but many cameras have a video out connector that you can just plug into the yellow RCA jack at the front of the tv. My 3yr old Sony does this, I would imagine many others do too. Unless perhaps this was a feature that was sacrificed to make them smaller. Not quite as geeky but hey my mom can manage this.
  • Diane Ensey · 3 years ago
    It sounds like a good idea, but I deal with non-technical people every day. Unless it is as easy as pressing ONE button, it still wouldn't work. What we need are devices that are as simple to use as the start button on a microwave.
  • Tyler · 3 years ago
    Doesn't the 360 already support plugging the camera into it directly through USB? That's easy enough for me. With all the wireless security protocols to work around - WPA, WEp64/238/256, and not to mention configuring SSID's - it's still going to be a pain for most people to configure. I think it has market potential, but I tried HP's PhotSmart PSC2250 printer with Wifi - what a pile of crap. I could never get the darn thing to connect to a WPA network - so I had a choice. not use the wireless capabilities I bought it for or lower the security on my network. I ended up getting an external wireless print server for the damn thing.
  • Michiel · 3 years ago
    It's ok if your camera doesn't have wifi but memory cards are the wrong place to put wifi I think. With current growth in SD and other cards capacity the current crop is obsolete before you can say 'dang!'.

    Then again, I have a mythTV box with a built-in card reader and any frontend will gladly show you the photos of the master. From the same menu that you access on the master.
  • Scott Kingery · 3 years ago
    Cool idea. My new Toshiba plasma has SD and Compact Flash slots on the side so I could just pop the cards in there. Plays mp3s too.
    One thing all these kinds of tools should have is the ability to read the EXIF data and rotate the picture on screen for you (ala Picasa).
  • Jed · 3 years ago
    Ah, but with the growth of WiFi in cameras you don't need GPS to location tag photos. WiFi positioning systems use the resident WiFi radio and nearby access points to do the same thing. It won't work in the desert or the mountains, but it does work indoors and in urban/metro areas - places GPS has problems. And it doesn't require that extra chip or piece of GPS equipment.
  • David Russell · 3 years ago
    Bzzzt! That was the sound of my digicam's battery running out due to the strain of using Wifi. And why would I want to use wifi to view/transfer pictures on my PC anyway, when by definition I would be in front of the PC anyway? The two seconds it takes to plug in a USB cable is less than the 10 seconds+ it takes to establish a wifi connection.
  • Preston · 3 years ago
    I hate to be like this, but Apple has done a good job making it so Mac side of the world doesn't have digital photography pain (in fact, it's one of the things they're known for), as Scoble describes it. I just plug my camera in, and up pops iPhoto. Sharing images in iPhoto makes them automatically appear in Front Row anywhere in the house. It takes less than a minute to do this.
  • Dmad · 3 years ago
    @17, yeah but apparently Scoble and his wife throw the cables away when they unpack their camera. :-)

    I'm not sure I want to immediately broadcast my pictures. I prefer to so some post processsing first, considering I shoot in RAW. But, to each his own.
  • Mike Waller · 3 years ago
    I've been shooting a lot of video lately. I can play it back on the camera lcd or when I hook it up to the TV via wire, or in my editing suite on the computer. But it would be cool to just sit down in front of the TV and look a the raw footage before geting to editing.
  • colbert · 3 years ago
    lovely...great stuff. its tiring transferring 400 pics every day to my pc. I love to do it on auto mode
  • nicole · 3 years ago
    Curious on the UI for this technology?
    If the camera is not a wireless camera, how does one set up the wireless for the card?
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