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Evernote + Eye-Fi = Instant Photographic Memory

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Wait, there's such a thing as an SD card with built in wi-fi that can automatically upload to the web? O_o

That's totally awesome.

I love living in the future.

Costs $79-$129, the cost/benefit ratio isn't there yet, but its still a great idea.

Actually, for most people (don't forget that the bay area isn't the normal world) -- the cost/benefit ratio is definitely there. Just read the reviews, from all the top reviewers. People know how to upload photos to their computer. It's not rocket science. But they don't do it because it's a chore and take a lot of activation energy. So like any other chore out there -- they end up putting it off.

With the Eye-Fi Card, all you do is get in range of wi-fi, turn the camera on, and the photos will go to your computer and to any of 25+ sites. It'll also tweet on your behalf, and embed geo-location information into the EXIF header.

How easy is it to integrate with eye-fi as a partner site? They seem to have quite a few partners. I wonder if anyone from their company reads hn?

I'd like to push to Dropbox personally. Then everything gets pushed to all my dropbox clients automatically.

Awesome. We believe that images should live in the cloud because it's MUCH more secure than having your photos just at home. Dropbox can become an Eye-Fi destination if they want to. Just email me at gillat AT yahoo DOT com

We support Gallery 2, which is the largest photo sharing open source project on the net. So ANYONE can become a destination for the Eye-Fi Card.

Email me at [gillat AT yahoo DOT com] and I'll send you a PDF file that explains how to do it. You just need to support 4 API's, and you're done.

One thing I wish I could do with Eye-Fi cards is push images to the card. I think this in combination with CHDK[0] could allow me to create Mobiphos[1] to real cameras.

[0]: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

[1]: http://nirmalpatel.com/research.html#mobiphos

I Haven't had much luck with the OCR in Evernote but hopefully someday it will become useful.

Really? I've seen it do some pretty impressive things. You have some examples of what didn't work? It might help them improve it. It's one of their core capabilities, of course.

How does Eye-Fi "know" to send to Evernote? It seems like software would have to be installed on a local computer unless they've jammed a processor into this thing, too.

It looks like it's software on the Eye-Fi.

From the Eye-Fi site: "Once you take the photo, it’s wirelessly sent to Evernote, where Evernote processes it and makes the text searchable."

A little too much vendor tie-in for my tastes. I wonder if you can configure it to upload the pictures to wherever the hell you feel like.

You can pick a wide variety of online photo sharing apps or it can upload to a directory on your PC. (I assume an open share.) http://www.eye.fi/overview/

I've looked into this before but it was always a bit too expensive for just a card and some newer cameras have a similar feature so I'm waiting until we upgrade our camera.

During Q4, there are huge promos. Costco.com, for example, has the 4GB Share for $79 and you don't even have to be a costco member to check out (online). BUY.com and Amazon have the 2GB cards for around $50-$60. We also sell directly to consumer, and don't charge S&H (and I realize that there cheaper places to buy the cards online).

In terms of brick & mortar stores, check out our site. We sell at Apple stores, Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's, Wolf/Ritz, etc...

Thx

This reminds me of the Livescribe smartpens. As someone in this thread already said... these things really make me feel like I am living in the future.

What if you don't want your every photo sent to evernote?

I guess the eye-fi has no customisation without a PC, so you'd probably need to keep switching SD cards. Ugh.

The way that the Eye-Fi card works, today, is that every photo that's taken is uploaded to the destination. You can keep switching destinations, online, whenever you want.

Is there also a voice recognition service this can be tied into?

Is Picwing working with EyE-Fi? They should!

They can become a destination ;-)

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