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Apr 14, 2011

Eye-Fi Mobile X2 Shoots Pics Straight to a Mobile Device

The Eye-Fi's "Direct Beam" magicalness is mobile—doing what the little Wi-Fi cards should have been all along. The new models skip your network entirely, creating a link between camera and mobile device.

What gadget? Lots! Smartphones and tablets will get a suite of Direct Beam-compatible apps dropped on them, allowing for in-the-field transfers. So, for instance, you could snap a photo, shoot it over to your iPad, and then edit it with the wonderful new touchy Photoshop. That's a pretty nifty setup, whether you're a photog pro or not. An 8 GB SD model will be out for $80 later this week.


7 comments:

MuteMath Fan said...

This is a cool idea, but with my luck the wifi network would go down the day I needed to use this!

Zombie said...

Bu then could someone hack your signal and get to all your info on the card?

Brandon Sample said...

i couldnt imagine using an ipad to do photoshop, but 8gb?! my word.

DerpFiles said...

Woah that's pretty neat.

N4M3L3SS said...

awesome i want one

Jim said...

Looks cool, but not for me. The price is kinda high for me.

chupy said...

wow, really interesting, but i wouldnt use it