Technology Bits

Automatic Photo Uploads

DIGITAL CAMERAS have become so simple that many people end up taking more pictures than they have time to upload to their computers. Eye-Fi, a startup in Mountain View, CA, hopes to change that with its new two-gigabyte secure digital memory card, which turns any compatible camera into a wireless transmitter. When a camera containing the card comes within range of a preselected Wi-Fi network, the card automatically uploads its contents to a local PC or to a
designated photo-sharing site on the Internet.

Hands-Free iPod

DON’T LIKE what’s playing on the car stereo? Just tell your iPod to jump to another song. A new in-car system from Ford and Microsoft connects to music players through a dashboard USB port and to cell phones via Bluetooth, letting the driver control both devices with voice commands. The system knows where to look for song and address-book data in a wide range of devices and translates it into phonetic codes intelligible to voice recognition software.

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Tags: HandsFreeiPod, PhotoUploads