If you are taking a photo with an Android-based smartphone, establishing a Google+ account will allow you to have any photos or videos you take with your smartphone automatically upload to your Google+ account (and your Picasa album if you have one), which means they load onto Google's servers and can be downloaded onto your computer or sent wherever for safe keeping.
I haven't shot any video, but the upload rate on photos over a 3G connection is less than five seconds.