Let the camera upload, organize and tag your photos

Problem: One of the biggest overhead of dealing with digital photos is the process of downloading the pictures from the camera , organizing them, uploading them online and sharing them with friends. Haven’t there been times when you have taken pictures at a party or outing and promised to upload them and send links to friends and then haven’t gotten to doing it for weeks? Wouldn’t it be cool if when you returned home from the party, the camera could magically upload the photos directly online to a website or your Facebook account and tag your friends while you slept? You will be surprised to know that this can already be done today.

Solution: Eye-fi is a memory card with an embedded wi-fi chip that can transfer photos directly from your camera wirelessly to a connected computer. You will not need to take the card out of the camera or look for your camera wire or the card reader. Its an SD card that fits most cameras and is available in 2 and 4 GB. Further it can even upload the photos online to photo websites like Flickr, Picasa, Kodak Gallery, Walmart (and 25 other supported sites)  or to your social network like Facebook. It also has the ability to geo tag your photos so the location where the photo was taken is recorded automatically. Once uploaded, with one click of a button on the photo albums you could order prints.

Once the photos have been uploaded to some online albums like Flickr or Picasa, the sites can automatically tag photos by facial recognition. On Facebook too, there are similar apps to do so.

Future: While uploading photos wouldn’t it be cool if the tool could figure out from your calendar or Evite invitations what event you were attending when you took the photos and automatically name the photos accordingly and categorize them. It could sync up with an online calendar, match the date and time of the photos with date and time of the events, name the downloaded photos by the name of the event and organize them in appropriate folders.

Another smart enhancement to this would be if somehow the tool was smart enough to star or favorite some photos based on the user’s personal preferences and the quality of picture and suggest that the online photo service orders prints of it. I am sure that day is not far away !

So, cut out the manual transfer of photos, manual renaming and manual tagging. Let technology handle your digital photo woes and use the saved time to enhance more of your photography skills

Intelligent Water Bottles

Problem: I was wondering what if my water bottle was smart enough to remind me to intake enough water everyday and further what if it could refill itself? Water intake is something I never keep track of and end up getting dehydrated in summer. But thanks to the wonderful innovators in this world there is already a solution to one of the problems.

Solution: HydraCoach: an intelligent water bottle that will track every sip of water you have consumed and show how much more you need to in an LCD display. How cool is that!

Intelligent Water Bottles

Future: What would be even cooler is if the water bottle could re-fill itself. What if a bottle could convert the water vapor in the atmosphere to water? Or what if it had some micro apparatus to do some chemical reaction that would create water, if not as a product or as a by-product. That would end the trouble of getting up in the night and dragging yourself to the refrigerator!

Interesting Trivia: Did you know that in space ships urine and sweat are recycled back to drinking water for astronauts?