Flucard is a wireless SD card that is used primarily with digital cameras. The Flucard is manufactured by Trek 2000 International, which is the Singaporean company that is one of the purported inventors of the ThumbDrive technology.
Features
The Flucard is designed to work with any device that has an SD host slot. Once it is plugged in, the device will gain Wi-Fi capabilities and be able to wirelessly send files to other Wi-Fi enabled devices. Additionally, users can wirelessly upload files from the host device to the Flucard Portal or any other server of their choice.
History
In 2005,
Henn Tan Henn Tan, is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Executive Director of Trek 2000 International, the company that invented the ThumbDrive, the first USB flash drive. This invention revolutionised the portable media storage industry and led to ...
, the chief executive officer and chairman of Trek 2000 International, was on an overseas trip with his family in China. On the third day of the tour, Tan's daughter's camera went missing. Tan would later recount that it was not so much the cost of the equipment but the loss of three days' worth of invaluable memories that affected him. Out of this ordeal, however, came the idea for a new product. Tan saw the potential for a better way to quickly and effectively store and protect such data on-the-go. When he got back to Singapore, Tan committed the company's research and development team to create an "intelligent" SD card that could wirelessly transmit files.
In 2008 the Flucard started to materialise. The name "Flucard" was purportedly chosen as Tan believes that the adoption of the Flucard would spread like a contagious flu, eventually displacing the standard SD card. Trek is one of the claimants to the invention of the
ThumbDrive, the disruptive technology that replaced the floppy disk as the medium-of-choice for digital storage.
In 2010, Trek, together with its long-time partner, Toshiba, jointly launched the forum "Standard Promotion Forum for Memory Cards Embedding Wireless LAN" to promote the adoption of the Flucard.
Specifications
* Capacity: 8 GB
* SD interface: SD memory Card Physical Layer Version 2.00
* Wireless interface: 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi technology
* Wireless security: WEP 64/128, WPA, WPA2
* Wireless range: Camera to Wi-Fi devices: 20 m (typical); Camera to camera: up to 6 m (camera model applies)
* Dimensions: 32 mm (L) × 24 mm (W) × 2.1 mm (H)
* Weight: 4 g
* Antenna: Internal
* Buzzer: In-built buzzer
* SD performance: Class 6 (sequential write: no less than 6 MBytes/s)
* Wireless performance: Max connection rate: 65 Mbit/s; transfer speed: up to 2 MBytes/s
Supporting applications
See also
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Pentax FluCard The Pentax FluCard, officially Pentax FluCard O-FC1, is a wireless accessory and memory card standard for Pentax cameras. As a memory card, it provides 16 GB of space and is specified as SDHC Class 10. As a wireless accessory, it allows remote ...
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Eye-Fi
Eye-Fi was a company based in Mountain View, California, that produced SD memory cards with Wi-Fi capabilities. Using an Eye-Fi card inside a digital camera, one could wirelessly and automatically upload digital photos to a local computer or a ...
, a similar Wi-Fi SD card
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PHS CF
The Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), also marketed as the Personal Communication Telephone (PCT) in Thailand, and the Personal Access System (PAS) and commercially branded as ''Xiaolingtong'' () in Mainland China, was a mobile network system op ...
, a PHS wireless modem technology based on CompactFlash cards
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Computer storage devices