Coming Soon: Wireless Video Uploads from Your Camera
Eye-Fi, the maker of SD cards with Wi-Fi, is demoing a pretty cool advance at CES this week: video uploads direct to YouTube.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company isn’t making any promises about when the new product will be available, but it says it will support full-resolution HD videos.
The way Eye-Fi works might be a little too forward-thinking, but it’s nifty. You can use your digital camera to take pictures (or eventually videos) with the card in place, then access a Wi-Fi network through the card to upload them directly to participating sites. Without such a card, the best way to upload video files while you’re on the go — “movlogging,” as it were — is from your phone via MMS, Wi-Fi, or if you’re lucky 3G, but the problem there is the extra expense and the fact that the camera is often crappy. The Eye-Fi cards cost $80-130.
We’ll update if we can get some more info from our friends on the ground in Las Vegas.
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[...] of Skype live shots (below), a company called Eye.Fi will demonstrate a new product at CES allows your camera to connect to WiFi, uploading video straight to YouTube. [...]
The true birth of citizen media - Lost Remote TV Blog on January 7th, 2009 at 1:03 pm - Permalink
I’m surprised no one’s invented this before… it’s such a no brainer.
Casey McKinnon on January 8th, 2009 at 7:37 pm - Permalink
This isnt new stuff – Next2friends have been doing this for some time.
Lisa Scales on January 9th, 2009 at 12:38 pm - Permalink
Or use one of the millions of phone cameras that already provide this facility like the Nokia N95…Good luck to the team with this one but it seems like tech that had to wait for prices to drop and by the time the prices had dropped, other solutions were already in place.
Craig McGill on January 11th, 2009 at 4:53 am - Permalink