Eye-Fi WiFi SD Card Review - Tech Look

GC hosts AJ Vickery and Mike Agerbo take a look at the Eye-Fi, a wireless SD card that will help you get rid of using a ton of messy cables.

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Segment 1

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Eye-Fi
• Wifi SD Card
• Camera
• wireless
• photos
• cameras
• Facebook
• GC
• GetConnected
• agerbo
• vickery
• SD Card

[26dragon93]

When i first heard of this i was amazed, but then i realised that it was only for your home network...

This would work so much better if they had a wireless dongle that you plug into lapop so that when you take a photo it gets wirelessly sent to the laptop, using your laptop hdd as your storage space, would be good if you were shooting in the field as a professional photographer, would only require one card.

[getconnectedtvshow]

@26dragon93 That's an excellent idea. As we move to 4G networks, I'm sure we will see more innovations like the one you just suggested. With cloud computing becoming more popular, I think it will be only a matter of time before we have access to files anywhere at anytime

[jjproctor]

what happens when you got lots of super sexy porn on there and it uploads to facebook automatically

[inc2000glw]

u need the EYE card adapter to do it all..gee people are so lazy

[djsmithy]

@26dragon93

You can already do this with the eye-fi.

If you do a google for "eye-fi ad hoc" there's a guide showing you how to.

An Ad Hoc connection basically allows 2 laptops to setup a wifi connection between each other without needing a wireless access point.

Or in this case, one eye-fi card and a laptop.

I only came across eye-fi a few mins ago, but Ad Hoc was the first thing that came to mind when reading your message!

[joonjoony]

This product is the most unreliable technology I ever purchased. All I wanted was to connect my iPad to the Nikon D90 in direct mode.The card transmits pics when it feels like it.sometimes they show up on iPad and most times who knows where pics are. I tried 4 times with fresh reinstall and the same crapy result.I investigated online only to learn that there 100s of other people complaining about same issue.I am shocked that a company would allow such product to be released to the market place.

[Deanozaur]

This would probably take forever to transfer a 5 minute 1080p video...

[barbershop22]

This Eye-fi card is very very slow at downloading. I use a SD 3.0 card reader that screams, my Eye-fi card is like USB 1.0 very very slow, it crawls comapred to USB 3.0.

[freestylefilmsinc]

@lastminyt yes search how to make an adhoc network

[lastminyt]

@26dragon93 this is possible using a laptop as "router", or am i missing something here?

[FixedByDoc]

@leepaothao sounds like you need the new class 10 cards. they do just fine.

[FixedByDoc]

@pikefan23 sure so when you are out taking pics the gov can see exactly what you are up to. also anyone could get ahold of your pics / vids that way. ppl are way to trust worthy. having it assigned to your personal wifi setup at home is way safer but still not completely. just take your pc/laptop/ipad/or tablet with you and setup a secured adhoc link between the two and not worry about it. i take my tablet everywhere anyway.

[xboxluva22]

@poochyenarulez i need it because my laptop has no sd slot