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Tuesday focus: Gadgets

If you tend to forget or neglect to move photo treasures from your digital camera to your computer, an Eye-Fi card should interest you.

This clever photo memory card handles that meddlesome task for you – and now it does the same for video too.

If you’re not familiar with the product, an Eye-Fi card turns any digital camera that uses SD memory into a Wi-Fi device.

The Wi-Fi technology is built into the Eye-Fi card, which is offered in only the SD format. Most digital cameras use SD memory.

The card can download photos and videos directly into your computer and to a photo- or video-sharing Web site. No cables are required, but the camera needs to be in a Wi-Fi zone.

There are four versions of the Eye-Fi card, ranging from $50 to $100 and in size from 2 GB to 4GB. Not all offer the video feature. They are available from several retailers and at www.eye.fi.

The Eye-Fi comes with a card reader that has a USB plug on one end and a slot for the SD card on the other. The reader includes software needed for managing the card, and it establishes the connection between the Eye-Fi card and a wireless home network.

When the Eye-Fi Manager opens, you can choose among several settings, such as sending your photos to sites such as Facebook, Flickr or Photobucket. You also can choose a destination for videos, such as YouTube.

Travel keyboard: The Atek OnBoard Travel Keyboard is made for someone who has a lot of work to do in the hotel room on business trips, but can’t stand the company-issued laptop because they aren’t used to the keyboard.

The keyboard attaches via a USB port, and no software is needed.

Keys are designed to feel like a desktop keyboard, and it has a separate numeric keypad. It also comes with a hard sliding cover, which can be used to tilt the keyboard.

A standard desktop keyboard has 104 keys; this has 99. The five keys it excludes are Print Screen, Scroll Lock, Pause Break, right side Ctrl and Windows keys. Not all keys work with Mac OS X.

The keys are easy to type on, it’s small enough to fit in a normal laptop bag, and the cord wraps around nicely for storage.

Price: $29.95.

From wire reports