January 6, 2005
The Wi-Fi Cameras are Coming
Kodak has just announced something new (for them) - a Wi-Fi enabled digital camera that enables online photo sharing and viewing without the need for a computer, reports Slashdot via Living Room org.
"The Kodak EasyShare-One is a 4 megapixel camera with a large 3 inch swivel touch screen display and 3x Optical Zoom. The Easyshare-One features VGA video mode (30 frames per second) as well as storage of up to 1500 downsized favorite images on its 256 megabytes of internal memory."
I wonder how this will affect camera phones. Obiously it doesn't make phone calls, but the ability to send pictures onto the Internet is really cameraphones' claim to fame. Though it appears (if I understand correctly) photos are only uploaded to Kodak's Easyshare service (formerly known as Ofoto)
Comment by Forge on Slashdot:
I mean a wifi camera is neaded by a lot of people. Let's say you are a jurnalist and want to take pictures where it's not exactly alowed. With wifi, the pics can get out imediatly so that if someone takes your camera to destroy incriminating pics you can let them have it (while recording that "transaction" too).
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