Darn! I just got a new camera for my anniversary (which I love, btw), so I won’t be able to get one that does this. Too bad, it certainly would be helpful to be able to receive photos of the people who stole your equipment:
Alison DeLauzon thought the snapshots and home videos of her infant son were gone for good when she lost her digital camera while on vacation in Florida.
Then a funny thing happened: her camera “phoned home.”
Equipped with a special memory card with wireless Internet capability, DeLauzon’s camera had not only automatically sent her holiday pictures to her computer, but had even uploaded photos of the miscreants who swiped her equipment bag after she accidentally left it behind at a restaurant.
“I opened up the Eye-Fi manager on the computer and, lo and behold, there are the guys that stole our cameras,” said DeLauzon, a native of New York’s Long Island suburb. “Not only is it the guy who stole our camera … but the guy took a picture of (his accomplice) holding our other camera.”
DeLauzon received the Eye-Fi, a 2-gigabyte SD memory card that fits into millions of digital cameras, as a holiday gift to go with her Canon camera.
Priced at about $100, the card automatically uploads pictures to a home computer or online photosharing service as soon as the user is linked to a familiar wireless network.
Luckily, the culprits passed by an unsecured network, whose factory-installed setting matched that of DeLauzon’s home system, and the Eye-Fi automatically shipped the photos: first baby pictures, then the snap-happy scoundrels.
The only time I left my camera someplace, the people who found it were nice enough to turn it into the people running the tourist attraction I was visiting. Thank the Lord for honest people 🙂 But if the people who work at the tourist attraction, restaurant, etc. aren’t honest (as in this case), then it’s helpful for your equipment to protect itself. Not to mention getting your pictures back, which is a huge relief (I would have been very bummed that all the pictures I took of our vacation were gone forever).
An interpretation of this post from the Reformed perspective:
I view technology as a gift from God:
ESV James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
🙂
BTW, I thought I published this three days ago but noticed that it was a draft.