Digital Camera SD Cards w/Wi-Fi Built In Still On the Horizon

Upon first hearing about this technology, I really thought it sounded like the future of digital camera storage. The idea was Wi-Fi built into your digital camera. The ability to take your pictures, save them temporarily onto a storage card and then upload them to your photo sharing site of your choice. Depending on how much storage capability you have, you are almost given a limitless amount of disk space to work with.

There have been a few introductory cameras that have WI-FI integrated, but the technology has yet to take off probably due to:

A. Limited widespread Wi-Fi hotspots.
B. Digital camera companies, just like printer companies(ink cartridges), make a bundle on external storage.
C. Although improving, Wi-Fi’s lackluster speeds.

Hopefully ideas, such as the one brought to us by Eye-Fi, will change all that. Eye-Fi is releasing a standard 2GB SD card, that will in addition have the ability to connect to WI-FI networks. At a $100.00 price tag, they’re aren’t anything out of the norm. They’ve already locked $5Mil+ in capital with hopes that as both WI-FI and digital cameras continue to explode onto the scene, enthusiasts will take advantage of both of these technologies at the same time.