Eye-Fi has added to its wireless SD storage card line with the Eye-Fi Explore, whose geotagging service "automates what is today a time-consuming manual experience" the company says.
Eye-Fi says the combo will make photo sharing richer,
easier and more convenient, as it automatically tags photos with information
about where the image was captured.
Eye-Fi partnered with Skyhook Wireless to encode each photo with geographic locations.
Unlike GPS, Skyhook Wireless has the first metro-area
positioning system that leverages Wi-Fi rather than satellites or cell towers
to deliver precise location data supporting the growing market for
location-based services.
The Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning System requires no new
hardware, works indoors and outdoors, provides an instant location, and is more
accurate than current technologies in congested downtown areas, the company
claims.
Skyhook covers more than 70 percent of the population in
North America, and the top 50 metropolitan areas in Europe.
The card will also send photos directly from the camera to a PC or one of 25 online photo sites, and automatically log into any Wayport hotspot, which are in major hotels, McDonald's restaurants, Hertz airport locations, and other retail outlets across the U.S.
The $129 card comes with one year of hotspot access at
Wayport locations.
5/16/2008
