Very rarely do I run across some new technology that I can recommend to my friends without any worries and I know it will make them happy.
That is the experience I have had with Eye-Fi. My son was getting married a couple of months ago and I needed a new SD memory card for my camera. I’ve heard about the Eye-Fi card and I really didn’t believe it could do what it’s advertising promised, but I thought now would be a good time to try. It ended up being absolutely amazing!
This card actually uses your or any other configured wifi network to upload the pictures stored on it to your favorite web picture site (Fotki, Shutterfly, dotPhoto, webshots, phanfare, Picasa Web albums, flickr, TypePad, Wal-Mart, snapfish, VOX, smugmug, facebook, photobucket, Kodak Gallery, and Sharpcast). It can also use it’s built-in wireless to use a wireless network to upload to your laptop or PC if you so desire.
A funny experience I had the first time I used the card happened on my son’s wedding day. The girls were getting their hair done upstairs at my house and I thought it would be cool to get pictures. I gave my wife my camera with the Eye-Fi card installed and off she went. I was sitting in the den on my laptop watching the pictures magically appear on my Picasa site. It blew me away.
So if you have a digital camera that uses an SD card; run, don’t walk and go get one of these cards. You can find the one I bought on Amazon Eye-Fi Share Wi-Fi Wireless 2 GB SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB
Later,
matt
July 20th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Matt, we are glad you liked the card.
Some of our customers place an Eye-Fi card on the tables at the wedding reception. Guests take pictures that are sent to a laptop which is hooked up to a projector – and now you have a live slideshow of candid photos at the event itself. Of course the pictures can also be sent to a photo sharing site for others to enjoy.