Wireless camera card, Eco TV both win CES awards
Cory Bergman January 9th, 2008
This is sweet. A company called Eye-Fi has managed to embed WiFi functionality into a camera memory card. So as you snap photos, it will automatically upload them to any one of 17 different photo and social networking sites (Flickr, Facebook, etc.) that you designate (assuming you’re connected to a WiFi service, like your home network.) The Eye-Fi cards cost $99.99, and it won Yahoo’s “Last Gadget Standing” award at CES.
And CNET’s annual CES “Best in Show” award goes to… the Philip’s Eco TV. The 42-inch 1080i LCD not only saves power, but it can dynamically dim the backlight to correspond to material on the screen — which according to Philip’s, improves the image. Green is in, folks.
4 Comments Add your own
1. Cory Bergman | January 9th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I will add… it’s unclear whether Eye-Fi will auto-recognize available WiFi sources, like the iPhone. It may only work off of a single Wifi source that you pre-designate.
If it DOES recognize any open Wifi source, imagine the implications for news photographers who can publish directly from their camera, while they’re snapping the news.
2. Charles | January 9th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
News, sports and celebrity photography would benefit from open WiFi immensely. This also would have big implications for citizen journalism as well. Remember the VTech cell phone video? Imagine having more and more video be “live,” or posted within mere minutes? No matter WHAT the content?
Imagine… I could be on a photo shoot and someone sees the photos pretty much AS I take them. No waiting to get back to upload even! Your micro-managing boss could then call immediately and direct a new shot.
This really is cool technology with big implications for the future…
3. Bruce | January 9th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
How long before some of those big implications become part of the the product? Nice first start, need public Wi-Fi and video too. Perhaps Eye-Fi guys should talk with QIK!
4. Brian | January 12th, 2008 at 8:35 am
From everything i read, the Eco TV is 1080p, not 1080i…..
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