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Equipped with a special memory card with wireless Internet capability, DeLauzon’s camera had not only automatically sent her holiday pictures to her computer, but had even uploaded photos of the miscreants who swiped her equipment bag after she accidentally left it behind at a restaurant.
“I opened up the Eye-Fi manager on the computer and, lo and behold, there are the guys that stole our cameras,” said DeLauzon, a native of New York’s Long Island suburb. “Not only is it the guy who stole our camera … but the guy took a picture of (his accomplice) holding our other camera.”
DeLauzon received the Eye-Fi, a 2-gigabyte SD memory card that fits into millions of digital cameras, as a holiday gift to go with her camera.
The article notes other means of achieving the same thing. A useful procedure to consider if you’re taking your digital goodies traveling.
I had my credit card stolen a while back. Withdrawals were made on a bank ATM that photo’d all withdrawals. Town was 150 miles away. I filed police report and name/phone number of the bank.
Cops not interested in finding the criminal duo. I doubt the camera person even asked for police action?
Now–I now the crime was non-violent and cheap==but New York City cleaned itself up by going after the street crime and the whole city benefited by fighting “small” crime.
Same thing could happen in the USA as a whole. Relatively cheap to find and prosecute as the proof is all on film. Stop all the other crimes the small fry do==maybe change/divert their path?
Couple got their pictures, criminals not deterred at all.
Forget sending pictures home. how about wifi triangulation?
How about wifi strangulation? Maybe as a plugin or add-on.
This same company is coming out with a card that does unlimited Geo-tagging and Hot-spot access. Perfect for what John and Adam were talking about on their “No Agenda” podcast. You don’t need to have a specialized camera, just a specialized card.
Since when have they been able to fit a whole wifi chipset and 2gb into an SD card?
“does not automatically connect to open public access points”
Story is not as plausible, given the above shortcoming with the WiFi access… but otherwise, it does actually connect via WiFi to upload the photos (only when the camera is on).
I call bullshit on this. Last time I heard, Eye-fi is only meant to send photos from your camera to your computer wirelessly over your local network. That’s it. It is not “internet-capable”. And how would it even know to phone home assuming it could?
If I am wrong, please correct me with credible information and links.
#7-eggman9713,
The product didn’t really call home. YOu can program the device to automatically upload to photo-sharing websites the next time it is in a wifi network. I didn’t e-mail the photos to the computer, it uploaded them to flickr.
Here is the page on the eye-fi website detailing the features of their SD cards. There is a neat graph showing that the photos are only uploaded to the computer if it is in the right wifi network, but go straight to photo sharing sites from any wifi network:
http://www.eye.fi/products/share/
You should note that the photo at the top of the article is of the wrong product.
Whether or not this works perfectly as the article states, it still serves to show how nicely technology is coming along. That they are putting wifi capability into an SD card is a nice feature.
To bad ET didn’t have one of these embedded in his skull…