| It's CES time (yearly consumer electronics show in Las Vegas,) which accounts for all the geek gadget news. Anyway, Kodak introduced something very cool (can you believe?) The Easy Share One is a 4 megapixel, 3x optical zoom digital camera with the option to add a WiFi card to upload photos directly to the web. Nikon did this on a high end camera back in 2003, but the Kodak is (almost) reasonably priced at $599 (WiFi will be another $100 or so.) I've been keyed in so much on phones getting better cameras that I forgot about the opposite trend: cameras getting wireless connectivity. I don't really want to talk on my cell phone anyway, I just want mobile internet access. And if my camera can give it to me then maybe that's okay. Still, if it's WiFi and not cellular it means it's not going to work in too many places. I'd love to think we (the people) are going to blanket the world with grassroots free open WiFi networks, but I'm coming around to Russell Beattie's position. If I can get 200 Kb/s of nationwide cellular data coverage for some reasonable price ($50 a month for Verizon EV-DO service on 3G phones,) why would I mess with WiFi? But in any case, this Kodak camera is cool, and I hope more manufacturers follow suit. |
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