October 3rd, 2007New chip allows WiFi upgrade of digital cameras
In this Web 2.0 era where everyone wants to share everything with everyone else, it’s surprising that digital cameras are still largely tethered to the USB cable and a manual download process to the PC.
Sure, some cameras have been introduced with WiFi and limited functionality to upload pics to online photo galleries, but the potential of WiFi in cameras has hardly been tapped to its maximum potential.
Allowing enthusiastic shutter bugs to wirelessly send their efforts to web sites such as Flickr or beam them via email to friends and family is an undeniably attractive feature, but what about the millions upon millions of existing digital cameras out there without this capability? Read the rest of this entry »




