Eye-Fi’s range of innovative WiFi-enabled SD cards just added a new move to their repertoire. The new Eye-Fi Share Video and Eye-Fi Explore Video cards can now automatically upload videos to the websites of your choosing.
Eye-Fi’s unique memory cards contain a tiny wireless chipset that gives any ordinary digital camera or ‘dumb’ camera phone a wireless connection. All you need to do is program it to connect to your personal WiFi network and choose whichever computer or photo / video sharing site you prefer (e.g. Picasa, Photobucket, SmugMug and so on). Then once you’ve taken some snaps, it’ll upload them directly without you needing to go near a USB cable.
The new video models will do the exact same, only it’ll upload video as well. If you gun for the more expensive Eye-Fi Explore Video Card, it’ll even geotag your footage with information about where you shot it, triangulating its position using Skyhook.
Needless to say, this miniaturised WiFi tech doesn’t come cheap. It’s $79 for the 4GB Eye-Fi Share Video or $99 for the 4GB Eye-Fi Explore Video. They’re available across the pond now, but we’d expect some to be winging their way to the UK in due course.
Out now | From around £30 | Eye-Fi
