Canon Media Station Downloads Photos, Charges Cameras Wirelessly

Now: You bring your camera home, battery dead and memory-card full after a long day?s shooting. You remove the card and battery, track down your card reader and charger, plug them in, yawn.
The future: You walk in the door, put your Canon camera down onto the Canon Cross Media Station on the side-table and go grab a cold beer from the refrigerator. As you sip the well-earned beverage, the shiny black box slurps in your photos and videos whilst simultaneously charging the battery, all without wires.
And it is the future. Canon?s prototype is slick, but is still a few years from entering production, mostly because the cameras will need to be re-designed to work with it. Check out the video and you?ll see that the cameras ? a compact, an SLR and a camcorder ? all have annoying blue lights to let you know they?re talking to the Media Station.

The video, shot by Trusted Reviews at the Canon Expo 2010, goes on to demonstrate the sharing and display features, which group pictures together based on time taken, camera used or even by person (using face recognition). It?s impressive stuff, but eye-candy, and aimed at my mother, who would never buy this thing. Hopefully a final version will just slurp the pictures out and send them to my computer. Or better, to a hard drive that I have plugged into the back, from where I can grab them from an iPad or laptop on the same network.
One thing though, Canon. Don?t write any of this software yourself. I have used the stuff you package with cameras and scanners, and it sucks. I will, however, buy this cool Media Station, if only to add to my collection of 2001 monolith-inspired gadgets.
Canon Showcases Filesharing Cross Media Station [Trusted Reviews]
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