Back to the Future by Dr. Ilia
Eye-Fi sells a camera memory card which adds the ability to send photos wirelessly to your computer, or the Internet. Imagine my delight when I heard they were releasing an iPhone app!
Now the Eye-Fi app for the iPhone is available for download. It uploads photos from the iPhone to Flickr, Picasa, and a handful of other web-sites. Pretty cool.
But not that interesting. And something that’s been done before. And only Eye-Fi customers can use it. And it’s only available from the US iTunes Store.
What I would really have liked to see Eye-Fi do is write a proxy application. By that, this is what I mean: I stick the Eye-Fi card in my camera. I start the app on my phone, lock it, and put it in my pocket. I start snapping with my camera. The photos are sent to Flickr via the phone. Not a “computer” in sight.