what a great idea!!!!

so you can then get the camera into places where cameras are not allowed and if the camera is taken then you still have the pictures because they are wirelessly sent to a laptop in a car behind the building

And since it’s SD, it doesn’t even work in pro cameras?

I’m actually interested in seeing one with bluetooth rather than wifi. I’d kill for that.

Actually, no, not to a laptop in the car because the receiver has to be plugged into a computer on a LAN. The piece that plugs into your computer pulls an IP from your router and the SD card in the camera sends the pictures to the IP of the USB plug-in receiver. Now, if you have that laptop in the car plugged into a wireless router it would probably work.

And since it’s SD, it doesn’t even work in pro cameras?

Posted at 6:04 pm on Feb 1st, 2009 by thethirdmoose

@thethirdmoose, i guess you don’t keep up much with pro cameras, or your idea of a pro camera isn’t actually a pro camera. the 1d mark 3 uses both sd and CF slots. so it would be able to. however both nikon and canon have wireless setups already so this makes this item kinda useless for them as well. then you get into non-pro the prosumer type slr’s which many do and do not have sd slots any more. nikons have more models with sd than canon’s do but again a moot point to your opinions about pro users.

as for this card it is a neat little item that would probably work well for lots of scenarios.

oh and for basically being able to do what a cellphone does? yeah show me a cell phone that takes pictures and instead of storing them on their memory automatically transfers them to a pc somewhere. and takes a picture at 800 iso with any quality at all……well any phone that has any quality at all :P

as far as not being able to transmit to the car you most certainly could. Run DHCP on the laptop and turn the wireless card into an access point. Not hard at all

@eddie1261: I think i speak for all of us when I say that I hope you aren’t a computer tech of any kind. although with your level of knowledge, you would be great for the geek squad. :/

(don’t normally talk about people, but I hate it when someone acts like an expert and is just plain wrong. normal for the internet, but not hackaday)

@those who say you don’t get decent phone cameras.

This is a link to some pictures taken with a Nokia N82 camera which has been out at least a year in Europe. It has a 5MP camera, genuine flash (not LEDs), wifi and HSPDA (who needs wifi when you can just upload straight to the web?).

Fantastic shots and probably a lot better than this wifi card for your theoretical undercover photo shoot.

http://web.me.com/jamesburland/nokia_creative/blog/entries/2009/1/26_photo:_the_nokia_creative_n82_photo_awards_-_winter_2009.html

i was thinking on the atm skimmer effect where the thieves have the device disguised as a card slot and is equipped with a cell phone with text messaging so by the time the bank and police finds out it is too late the credit cards have been copied.

same here while it is probably illegal the theory is that by the time the police finds out it is probably too late especially if working in a ring of some sort

WiFi from one of these cards through a building and to a car out in a parking lot, huh?

I don’t think they have that kind of range, although people might have experimented with ‘em to that effect.

@james n82 camera has a CRAPPY camera. Got one on my hip now, it sucks as a camera. Dude go buy a $99.00 canon point and shoot. even my old throwaway 2.1 megapixel canon from 1999 kicks the crap out of the photos that an N82 can do.

20 bajillion megapixel means nothing, real optics mean everything, no camera made has any real optics, only that ceramic lens crap that is in every single phone because of space. Ceramic lenses cant get tack clear focus (plus no cellphone has a real focus only a infinite focus blob lens.)

It’s only a matter of time for this device to be completely freed from the patented status. Wireless features to any storage can not really be patented, and even if today this nice little wifi SD card can “only” send jpg files sooner or later it_will send RAW format too. Any software or hardware lock will be much likely broken. There is always a free world out there, not bound to material interests :)

I can’t believe nobody here is concerned that they’re starting to throw GPS chips into memory cards which could allow full forensic tagging of every photo you take.

The internal and NAND flash look big enough … wonder if you could put a small os on this for injection wireless pen-testing?

@yup – I’ll only be concerned if it’s not listed and you can’t buy chips that don’t have this feature. Last I checked though, GPS doesn’t work well indoors … so you can fool it pretty easily: use camera outside, turn camera off, remove chip, move to new indoor location, put chip back in, take new picture – you’ve just faked a gps tag.

Can the OS be modified ? If yes, can it be modified to mount a custom disk image over tcp/ip or do something similar and fool the cam that the disk image is the card ? That way, you could load a custom CHDK, which can probably even show you if the upload is complete or not, signal strength etc! No ?

how about this.. hack the eye-fi card so that it can also sync PDFs and then install into the sony e-reader. Voila, instant DRM-free Kindle..

Can’t be too hard, the firmware is probably updateable so should be easy to modify to change or add filetypes.

(or just have the e-reader change JPEGs with a special character in the name to PDF via modified firmware)

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Can we flash these to make a “Throwie Mesh” node for situations deserving that sort of tool?

Or, possible wireless incarnations of the Flash Drive embedded in a wall Hack.

A Geocache flashed version where the restricted range of this device would serve as enhancement to the challenge factors?