Eyefi - can't miss killer digital camera product
Occasionally you see a product that is a can't miss proposition... and launched at a great holiday gift price point of $99.
Eye-fi started shipping this week. It automates the downloading of pictures from a digital camera to your PC using a proprietary Eye-fi SD card and wifi. Every time you take a picture and bring the camera within range of your PC's wifi network, the automatic downloading of pictures happens. It can also upload pictures into online photo-sharing and social networking sites like Flickr and Facebook. It doesn't yet work on wifi networks outside the personal one... think of the utility when traveling. The company says they are working on it. The Eye-fi card is a 2gb SD card plus flash-driven wifi functionality for $99.
Eye-fi's biggest marketing problem is their non-intuitive URL http://eye.fi... one needs to search for the product to get to it. Interestingly, a beneficiary of all that Eye-fi traffic is headed to www.eyefi.com, a Dutch company that has developed an international real estate portal.
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Think about the same thing about the size of a brooch or a tie clip, logging in whenever it finds a free connection -- which will be everywhere soon. Now Flicker becomes Twitter, but street crime and criminal abuses by government functionaries become impossible. Presumably the privacy fanatics will pitch another fit, but Photons Want To Be Free.
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I like the Get Smart miniaturization angle to citizen digital surveillance...
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Link to the Dutch portal mentioned in this post - for those interested. http://www.secondhomemarket.com/
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I can't wait until this is $30!
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Interesting product. I'd expect that the next generation of cameras will probably include something along this line, and iPhones and iPods and PDA's will probably be ably to sync as well. Lot's of possibilities. Let's say you had a real estate listing. You could set up a signal transmitter so that when passer-bye's stop to look they could download information directly into their PDA. Thanks for the post.
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The Google Phone OS will have all of these functionalities as well.
John, you are right on. I hate when I find a house I am interested in and there are no flyers in the flyer box. Let me RFID it with my phone.
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