Eye-Fi ‘Direct Mode’ Send Photos Direct to iPad
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LAS VEGAS — Eye-Fi will add a new “Direct Mode” to its Wi-Fi-enabled SD cards, allowing cameras to send photos direct to smart-phones and tablets as they are taken.
Currently it is only possible to beam photos from an Eye-Fi filled camera to, say, an iPad with a rather clunky chain of tools. First, you need a pre-existing Wi-Fi network for both camera and iPad to connect to. Then you need the nifty but tricky to set up Shutter Snitch app for the iPad. Then you have to cross your fingers and hope.
Eye-Fi’s Direct Mode turns the card itself into a Wi-Fi access-point, to which you connect your phone. An update to Eye-Fi’s iOS apps will then let them receive photos direct. From there you can upload them, or process them with apps like Instagram. All the existing Eye-Fi functions – direct uploads from the camera, for example – will also still work.
Direct Mode will come as a free firmware update “later in 2011″, and will work with any X2 Eye-Fi cards.
Direct Mode press release [Eye-Fi]
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