Eye-Fi is a company based in Mountain View, California that produces SD memory cards with wi-fi capabilities. Using an Eye-Fi card inside a camera, one can wirelessly and automatically upload digital photos to a local computer (running Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X). Some models also allow for uploading photos to photo sharing, blogging and social networking sites such as Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and PhotoBucket;[1] and some models also allow for uploading videos, both to a personal computer and to YouTube[2].
Eye-Fi currently produces seven models of cards: "Home", "Home Video", "Share", "Share Video", "Explore Video", "Geo" and "Pro". The "Home", "Share" and "Geo" models hold 2 GB of memory, while the rest hold 4 GB.[3]
"Share" versions allow uploading to various photo-sharing websites. The "Share Video" card allows uploading videos as well. The "Pro" adds RAW image support and peer-to-peer or ad-hoc networking.[4]
Certain cards offer photo geotagging (WPS) through a relationship with Skyhook Wireless and hotspot access through a relationship with Wayport.
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History
Eye-Fi was founded in 2005 by Yuval Koren, Ziv Gillat, Eugene Feinberg and Berend Ozceri.[5] Jef Holove became the CEO in September 2007.[6]
Awards and accolades
Eye-Fi has won the following awards:
- "Best of Show" at Macworld 2008[7]
- "Editor's Choice Award 2008" from The Mac Observer[7]
- "Last Gadget Standing" winner, Consumer Electronics Show 2008[8]
- "Last Gadget Standing" live contest winner, Consumer Electronics Show 2009[9]
Wall Street Journal writer Katherine Boehret called the Eye-Fi card "a terrific little tool".[10]
The magazine Wired placed the Eye-Fi Pro on their "2009 Wish List", calling it "Arbus meets Airbus".[11]
Technical specifications of the Eye-Fi cards
- Wi-Fi security: Static WEP 64/128, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK
- Range: 90+ feet (27.4m) outdoors and 45+ feet (13.7m) indoors
- Storage capacity: 2 GB or 4 GB
- Power: Powered through device.
- Card dimensions: SD standard 32mm x 24mm x 2.1mm
- Card weight: 2.835 gram (0.1oz.)
- 802.11b/g/n
Currently-supported photo services
- Adobe Photoshop Express
- Costco Photo Center
- dotPhoto
- Evernote
- Flickr
- Fotki
- Gallery 2
- Kodak EasyShare Gallery
- MobileMe
- Phanfare
- Photobucket
- Picasa Web Albums
- RitzPix
- Sharpcast
- Shutterfly
- SmugMug
- Snapfish
- TypePad
- Vox
- Walmart
- Webshots
- Windows Live
- YouTube
- Zenfolio
Software
Eye-Fi offers an iPhone program, but it is only available in the US, UK, Canada and Japan App Store [12].
Hardware
The card is manufactured for Eye-Fi by Wintec Industries Inc. of Milpitas, California, and contains the following major components:
- Atheros AR6001GL "Radio-on-a-Chip for Mobile" (ROCm)
- Samsung Electronics K9LAG08U1M NAND flash
- Hyperstone S4 flash memory controller
- Epic Communications FM2422 compact RF front-end module
- Fairchild Semiconductor FAN5350 step-down switching voltage regulator
References
- ^ Eye-Fi introduces camera cards that wirelessly uploads videos to the Web and an iPhone app Retrieved on 2009-05-19
- ^ Eye-Fi Share Video 4GB SD card with Wi-FiRetrieved on 2009-06-15
- ^ [http://www.eye.fi/products/home Eye-Fi products
- ^ EYE-FI INTRODUCES A WIRELESS MEMORY CARD FOR PHOTO ENTHUSIASTS Retrieved on 2009-06-15
- ^ Eye-Fi: About Us: Management
- ^ Jef Holove biography, Where 2.0 Conference
- ^ a b Eye-Fi enables seamless experience with Snow Leopard (press release), August 27, 2009
- ^ Eye-Fi wins Last Gadget Standing contest, again! (press release), January 11, 2009
- ^ And the winners are..., lastgadgetstanding.com, January 13, 2009
- ^ No Excuses: a Wire-Free Way to Upload Photos, Katherine Boehret, The Mossberg Solution, The Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2007
- ^ Wish List 2009, Wired, December 2009
- ^ "Outside US". Eye-Fi. http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=829. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
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