Smile, You're On Camera: Eye-Fi Card Catches Thief

Rhuarc

Mods, please move this if it is in the wrong place! I didn't know if this should go here under "Gear" or in the General forum, but I thought this was pretty awesome either way!

Full Article
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/06/smile-youre-on.html

Here's a new use for the Eye-Fi wireless SD card that we hadn't considered: A virtual private eye. Eye-Fi user Alison lost $1000 worth of photo gear whilst on holiday in Florida.

The Eye-Fi hooks up to the internet and sends your photos to either an online sharing site or directly back to your home machine. In this case it was the latter, and the hapless thief not only sent the precious vacation shots back to Alison's computer, but -- according to the email we received from Gadget Lab reader Joe Volat -- "pictures [of] the thieves proudly displaying Alison's lifted camera equipment".

James S

You gotta love it when stupid thieves get caught.

Rhuarc

There was a similar story somewhere recently about someone who stole a laptop that had a built in webcam. The owner of the computer had set up the webcam to stream to a secure website whenever the laptop was on with an internet connection. The owner went to the website, took a capture of the theif using the laptop, and sent it to the police.