Toshiba is out with a new SD card standard that integrates Wi-Fi with data storage. The forum, the "Standard Promotion Forum for Memory Cards Embedding Wireless LAN" has been founded by Toshiba and Singapore-based Trek 2000 International Ltd. There’s no doubt this is a grand idea, but it’s not the first of its kind as Eye-Fi has been around for along time and has had this standard welded down. What this card can do is connect with another one like it to exchange files, like Bluetooth. This is obviously aside from the fact that you can upload directly onto various servers. Of course I’m presuming, the camera will have to be equipped to handle this.

The new card is compliant with the SD memory card standard, supports IEEE 802.11b/g and has an 8-gigabyte capacity. It can transfer both JPEG and RAW images. It also features user management of image transmission and reception so that it minimizes power consumption. So far though there hasn’t been any mention of pricing.

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