Dave's Favorites: Send Pictures Wirelessly With Concord Eye-Q

Have you ever wished that you could dispense with cables and card readers, and simply transfer images from your digital camera to a computer wirelessly? If so, you'll love the Concord Eye-Q Go Wireless.

The Eye-Q is a taste of the future, folks. Sure, it's a small 2-megapixel point-and-shoot camera that costs $179--not a lot of innovation there. But it is the first digital camera I've seen with Bluetooth built in. That means it can transfer pictures wirelessly to any other Bluetooth device within a range of about 30 feet. The camera comes with a Bluetooth USB adapter for your PC, so you can add Bluetooth to your PC essentially for free. It also works flawlessly with a Bluetooth-enabled Palm OS PDA.

Take a picture, press the Transmit button, and the camera looks for any Bluetooth devices in the room. Click one more time, and the image is sent quickly to the other device (it takes just a few seconds). I recently wowed some friends with the ability to snap a picture and then send it almost instantly to my PC and Palm Tungsten T3.

Don't expect to use this camera to become a wireless Ansel Adams: It has a built-in flash, 7MB of internal memory, and a Secure Digital card slot, but there's no optical zoom or programmed exposure modes. It's a simple camera, but it makes a great gift for a new photographer--or an excellent toy for yourself.