November 2008

Eye-Fi offers 4GB Anniversary Edition wireless SD Card
Eye-Fi announced a new, limited edition card – the Eye-Fi Anniversary Edition – to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its first wireless SD memory card for digital cameras. The Eye-Fi Anniversary Edition doubles storage capacity to 4GB and features faster memory speeds. Like the Eye-Fi Share, the Anniversary Edition wirelessly sends photos from a digital camera to a computer and to one of more than 25 online photo sharing sites. The card is available at Costco.com for $99 to club members, or on www.eye.fi for $129, while supplies last. -- Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 by chb

Target's digital camera gift card
Now for something different: Target offers a gift "card" that can be loaded from $50 to $1000 and is also a digital camera. How's that for a novelty? It's not much of a camera (1.2mp, no features), but you do get 40 prints for free, and it's definitely a conversation piece. [Check the Target Digital Camera GiftCard] -- Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 by chb

Digital camera with integrated color printer!
Japanese Takara Tomy is showing the XIAO TIP-521, a 5-megapixel camera with an integrated color printer. That ability once was a huge hit with Polaroid cameras. Problem is that we want tiny cameras and large prints, whereas the XIAO measures about 6.0 x 3.05 x 1.0 inches and the 256-color prints are just 3x2. -- Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 by chb