Polaroid Introduces Digital Photo Back-Up Tool
Polaroid, one of the names most associated with photography and imaging, has just released a nifty product that could be a great tool for digital photography and digital frame enthusiasts.
The Media Backup Photo Edition is a small hard drive that can be connected to computers running Windows XP, 2000, and Vista. The drive’s software can then automatically scan all folders on your computer to find photos and back them up to the drive.
This will be especially useful to people with very large digital photo collections or who have stored photos in many places on their computers and thus have lost them.
It also addresses one of the rarely touched on facets of the transition to digital imaging: the possibility of losing all your photos.
If you’ve only got digital photos, and don’t back up your hard drive regularly, a hard drive crash could deprive you of hundreds or thousands of photos containing cherished times and memories.
With a device like the Media Backup Photo Edition – assuming you remember to use it — that eventuality could be avoided. The device could also, with a little modification, perhaps be used in conjunction with digital picture frames, making large photo collections portable and displaying big video files easier.
As some point out, though, since the Media Backup Photo Edition grabs all the photos on your hard drive, it’s likely to back up some irrelevant ones, as well as discovery some … interesting … images that some users might not wish be found.
Still, interesting idea for less technical users.
The Polaroid Media Backup Photo Edition will be available soon and can store 40,000 photos (40 GB) and will cost about US$140.
valorin wrote at April 15th, 2007 at 4:19 am
There are already hardware devices which allow you to do this, direct from a Memory card, when you are out on the field with your camera.
One of the best of these is: http://www.nextodi.com/english/02product/ultra.html
I plugged my Nexto-CF it into my Digital Picture Frame, and it reads the images off the device with no problems. As long as the external device is setup to allow standard USB file browsing, and the Picture Frame supports USB, then you should have no problems getting it to work.
Well, I didn’t anyway