The Olympus PENpal is a Bluetooth widget that beams photos from your camera to your computer. It slides into the appendage shoe upon a top of a Olympus PEN E-PL2 camera as well as is tranquil by a camera itself.

This inventive dongle integrates with the camera’s own menus, as well as sends images to any device concordant with Bluetooth record transfers (which counts out the iPhone and iPad). It works similar to this: Browse your photos upon the camera’s screen as usual and then strike a menu button. From here, select the “Send the Picture” option and you’re done. The photo will crop up on your computer a couple of moments after.

The PENpal will additionally resize photos prior to promulgation. Depending on your settings, it will cringe pictures to 1280 x 960, 1920 x 1440 or 640 x 480, as well as can store up to 2,600 pictures in its own memory.

This seems similar to an preferred resolution for crappy cellphone cameras. You can take the snap with a correct camera as well as afterwards send it to your phone for editing and uploading, letting both inclination do what they’re good at. This seems to be the trend in consumer wiring in general: We’re relocating away from convergence as well as a do-everything machines that entails, as well as coming to small ecosystems of networked devices. Camera, mechanism and inscription are all beginning to talk to any other.

It’s only the contrition that this won’t work with a iPad, which really needs a camera, and which it is Olympus-only. At least it’s poor, though, during just $80.

Olympus PENpal [Olympus via Derek Story]