New York – The Camera That Knows Where It Is

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    New York – The Eye-Fi Share card. Is a 2-gigabyte memory card ($100), compatible with most digital cameras, with a twist: it has Wi-Fi networking built in. Each time you bring your camera home to your wireless network, it transmits your photos back to the computer, automatically and wirelessly. It can also upload them to Flickr, Picasa or another online photo-gallery site, automatically and wirelessly.

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    What’s the point? First, you’re saved the trouble of finding and attaching your U.S.B. transfer cable. Second, you skip the multi- step hassle of manually uploading the fresh pictures to a photo-sharing site.

    Finally, there’s an enormous showoff factor, both for you and for the manufacturer. How on earth did they fit Wi-Fi circuitry into a regular-size SD card, which could hide behind a postage stamp?

    In any case, this week, a new model arrives with an even more amazing trick up its sleeve.

    You know how your digital camera gives every photo an invisible time and date stamp? Well, the Eye-Fi Explore ($130) card invisibly stamps every photo with where you took it.

    That’s right: photo geotagging has finally come to a camera near you. Noting what photo was taken where used to require either tedious manual data entry or expensive add-on gear. Now it comes cheaply and automatically.

    Once on your Mac or PC, each such photo shows the city and state where it was taken. You can also click to view either a street-map view or an aerial photo, clearly showing where you were standing when you pressed the shutter button. At long last, technology has reached a point where we don’t need to write “Eiffel Tower, 1988” on the back of the print as a reminder.

    Photo Web sites like Flickr, Picasa and SmugMug can display these maps, too. Certain desktop photo programs, like Photoshop Elements 6, Picasa and (for the Mac) Ovolabs Geophoto.

    Now, that’s a pretty interesting trick. But finding out how it’s done is even more interesting.

    No, it’s not G.P.S. Even the Eye-Fi people can’t yet shrink a G.P.S. receiver to fit the sliver of an SD card


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Modern trchnology is the biggest proof to what it says in Pirkei Avos- Kol Maasecho Basefer Nichtovim-

    it's me
    it's me
    15 years ago

    This is a reall cool device i gotta get it!

    mike
    mike
    15 years ago

    the rabbunim will come out with a ISUR on it

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    what will technolgey bring 10 years from now

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    mike, yes, if the rabbonim will see a danger in it, they will issue an issur, if they won’t, they will not assur it.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    no if they are told its a danger they will issue an issur they are good soldiers they do as they are told.

    INTER CHUCHIM
    INTER CHUCHIM
    15 years ago

    to the contrary, the rabbonim should be very happy with this as they will know exactly where you were when taking the picture!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    The rabbonim will ossur it: This picture of yinglech w/ payos caught my attention. I may be showing my age, but growing up – we never took pictures. The Brooklyn Yiddish newspapers never had pictures like they do today – the only exception was passport / driver license pictures. Even today, many frimme yidden don’t photograph.

    mike
    mike
    15 years ago

    its a fanatishe think not to take picturs