Eye-Fi has presented new WiFi-Cards in the size of a SD-card. There are models names Eye-Fi Explore, Home and Share. The Modle Exe-Fi Explore costs about 130 US-Dollar. This card saves the approximate location of the place where the picture was taken – without GPS.
The georeference works with the service of Skyhook and therefore worksonly near WiFi Hotspot, where the location is known. This techniques is already used from Apple (e.g. iPod touch). The problem with this technique is the coverage. It works quite well in city with a lot of georeferenced WiFi Hotspot but on the countyside there currently are some limitations. In the USA Wayprot services can be used for upload. In the price of the cards there is a an one year free usage of this service included.
Each card has a size of 2GB. The WiFi Explore should be available at markets in June 2008 (USA).
[via golem.de]
Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
