Wi-Fi Through Your Camera's SD Card Slot?

A company called Eye-Fi has found a way to embed 802.11g wireless onto one of those tiny SD memory cards. The Eye-Film card is designed to work with digital cameras so you can wirelessly download photos or transfer them to an Internet site without connecting to a computer.


Engadget's now reporting that this technology is in beta, so hopefully it will be coming out soon. They say that Eye-Film will work with "qualified" existing digital camera models without upgrade, but there is currently no public list of makes and models. Wi-Fi on the SD has been tried before, but always with a larger than standard size, making them awkward or incompatible with most camera's tiny memory compartments.
The Eye-Film card is being designed to fit within SD dimensions, and a similar CompactFlash card is next in the pipeline. The company's site says that while digital cameras are the primary focus for Eye-Film, the company is taking PDA and SmartPhone functionality "very seriously." Of course, if you don't want to wait for this feature and are in the market for a new digital camera, check out these Wi-Fi-capable digital cameras.