Toshiba Aims At Making a Wireless SDHC Card Good For Uploading Pictures to a Computer
By Chris Weiss
Toshiba is working on making cameras wireless, but instead of sticking to the trend of the electronics industry–that is to say, introducing a shiny new product that makes you ditch your “old” device and shell out hundreds to keep up with the latest tech–it’s actually doing consumers a solid in attempting to add the technology to a vehicle that can easily upgrade older devices. What I’m trying to say with all that verbiage is that Toshiba and a partner–Trek 2000–have built 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi capability into SDHC cards. Instead of a new, $300 camera, you’ll simply need a new Toshiba SDHC card to bring wireless capabilities to your existing digital.
Toshiba is inviting potential industry partners to a forum to discuss making an industry standard for the cards. If it succeeds, amateur photogs everywhere will be able to cut out the USB cords and send their pictures directly to the computer. The cards also allow communication with another camera that has the same card. [Dpreview via Dvice]
