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ASUS Developing Eee Tablet PC?
2008-05-24 21:59:00 ASUS may have a tablet version of the Eee PC ready as early as June, says Australia’s Current. Regional retail manager Emmanuele Silanesu says that the company is looking into a touchscreen device in a form other than “just a clamshell” and might make its debut at the industry benchmark Computex show, which starts June ...
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More Wood For Your USB Stick
2008-05-13 23:24:00 Hmm, that title came out a little weird. Anyway, Vladimir released updated versions of his USB wood drives to include some odd shapes that include, what looks like to me, a mushroom, tree stump, wooden tooth and a fluted casing. Wooden Jewelery is offering these for $20 [1GB] and $30 [2GB]. The wood drives ...
500GB Mercury Portable HHD
2008-04-19 03:11:00 OWC is giving you GB hungry data hoggers some extra storage space. Their new 500GB Mercury portable hard drive is their largest [portable] edition yet. It’s got Firewire and USB connectivity to support any gear you’re dealing with. A couple concernts I have are a) it’s a 5400 RPM hard drive, which is standard for ...
Attention Gamers: Iomega Media Xporter Is For You
2008-04-18 18:21:00 Iomega is shifting it’s focus to the consumers with more disposable income, the gamers. Well at least in theory. The Iomega Media Xporter is a portable 160GB hard drive designed to seamlessly integrate with cross-platform applications to PlayStation 3 consoles and Xbox 360 console. With the gaming console become more of a home entertainment ...
The New Yorker Hard Drive From Pexagon
2008-04-15 19:35:00 I’m on the left coast, so not exactly sure on why Pexagon had the motivation to create a New Yorker USB Hard Drive [customer request], but none-the-less, it’s here and available. The Pexagon New Yorker hard drive has over 4,000 issues of the East Coast’s favorite magazine. The Complete New Yorker gives you instant access to ...
LOL - Accordion USB Drive
2008-04-06 08:23:00 Accordian USB drive, are you kidding me? This is nothing more than silicone wrapped around a USB adapter port. Sure you could slap some marketing gargon on there, like accordion USB drive, but we’ll all see past it. None the less, I didn’t think of it so kudos to Jacek Ryn for such an idea. You ...
Fuzzy USB Animals Might Bug You If You Let?em
2008-04-04 05:50:00 The typical UFD sticking out of your laptop is probably nothing more than fancy shaped plastic, or possibly wood or even gold ($6,000). Today we look at the softer, fuzzier side of UFDs. Paul from Technabob uncovered these fuzzy little USB critters, created by a design artist Nifer Fahrion. Nifer Fahrion has two version ...
GetUSB Dealz: 8GB Kingston $32 Plus Free Shipping
2008-04-03 20:22:00 Not that fee shipping on a USB drive should put anyone over the edge, but consider an 8GB Kingston drive for only $32 - now that’s a deal worth jumping on board [for]. This GetUSB Dealz has no rebates or coupons, just raw savings. The Kingston DataTraveler was originaly $54 but is reduced to $32 and ...
SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive
2008-04-02 02:51:00 What does a high class manufacturer of motorcycles have to do with a manufacturer of USB sticks? Ducati and Sandisk have decided to create a partnership together creating fast memory products like CompactFlash and USB Flash Drives. Well, Ducati and SanDisk believe by slapping “Sandisk Extreme Ducati Edition” and creating a 4GB ...
Personal Pocket Safe Is Pin Pad USB Stick
2008-03-25 07:09:00 Here is the Personal Pocket Safe UFD which is the first of it’s kind that is an “encrypted, epoxy coated, pin-protected smart drive.” Not the first pin-pad USB stick we’ve seen. But with military grade encryption and a mysterious “track-covering” feature to insure no one can trace it’s where-a-bouts after removing from the host. Lets say ...
Credit Card Size Digital Video Player
2008-03-20 04:59:00 Is that a PMP in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Sorry, that?s all I could think of for this super mini video player that sports a 2.4? or 2.8? full-size bright high-res LCD display. The device can be expanded with a memory card (T-Flash or MicroSD) but comes with 2GB ...
USB Duplicator by Nexcopy Makes Content Loading a Breeze
2008-03-19 16:56:00 Nexcopy announced earlier this week their USB200PC USB Duplicator is available for purchase. This unit appears to be the easiest and most economical way to load content to USB flash memory. The USB duplicator is a PC based system which copies from a master location to 20 slave ports. I would think this an excellent ...
Movie On USB Stick - Sounds Crazy But Makes Sense
2008-03-06 00:29:00 So many have asked the question: How do you make DVD rentals easier than running down to the video store. Well, we’ve seen NetFlix with their rapid shipping and quick turn times and Blockbuster on their heels. These big-boys are now turning to on-line download and “content on demand.” It all ...
Chinese New Year - The Year of The Rat - UFD
2008-02-21 22:53:00 This year the Chinese New Year starts on February 7, 2008 and is the year of the Rat. Kingston has a Limited Edition, Chinese New Year Rat UFD available for the taking. A little background: The Lunar New Year dates back from 2600 BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the Chinese ...
Tiny Wii Remote Isn?t a Wii Remote At All
2008-02-20 19:52:00 Before you Wii addicts get too excited, it’s not a Wii remote at all, but a well disguised USB stick. This design uses the Wii A button to pop out the USB connector. The spring loaded mechanism looks a little stiff (see video). What’s great about this product, is it looks just like the ...
Digitimes reporting on falling NAND Flash storage
2008-02-19 13:25:00 9 to 5 Mac – Digitimes reports today on the state of falling NAND Flash prices. Specifically the price of a 16Gbit MLC segment are expected to fall below $5 and continue dropping through the rest of the quarter. This news has an effect on Apple in a few ways. First, the MacBook Air has a 64Gbyte NAND Flash hard drive option ... read more
Strange Things Are Happening to USB Drives These Days
2008-01-22 20:11:00 It’s always been a gas to report on those strange USB drives floating around and I thought we had seen it all with the Spongebob drive, Biscuit drive and Star Wars Pez drives, but today I bring you yet another. Minimoo brings us four new USB animal drives to place into our “useless novelty” category [although ...
Hand Crafted Flash Drive Brings Back Tradition
2008-01-15 00:26:00 Markus Bischof is a Germany craftsman who’s recently applied his skills to the creation of hand crafted USB drives. Made from extremely old wood and veneers it’s hard to believe a single tree hasn’t been (recently) cut down for it’s creation. Rather, the materials used, come from old wood collections where the wood is as ...
Jetflash V33 From Transcend - Just Another Drive
2007-12-17 19:08:00 WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'and taxonomy = 'category' and post_type != 'page' and post_] select ID, post_title, post_status, post_date, term_id, object_id, wp_term_relationships.term_taxo-nomy_id, wp_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_-id from wp_posts, wp_term_relationships, wp_term_taxonomy where ID = object_id and wp_term_relationships.term_taxo-nomy_id = wp_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_-id and term_id = and taxonomy = 'category' and post_type != 'page' and post_status = 'publish' and post_date < NOW() order by post_title asc; Transcend has built a great name for themselves with the Jetflash UFD product line. It’s been tested as one of the fastest drives on the market, simple designs which are small and compact. The new Transcend Jetflash V33 is no exception. At just 60...
Review: PNY IronKey 4GB Flash Drive
2007-12-11 19:00:00 Luigi of I4U had some time yesterday to review the PNY IronKey USB 4GB UFD. In short it’s a great security device but you give up performance for such security. The PNY IronKey uses AES encryption which is always on and keys generated by the on-board cryptochip uses FIPS 140-2 true compliant random number generation. ...
Here We Go Again - World?s Biggest Hard Drive
2007-11-27 00:01:00 Buffalo just put the call to action for SanDisk, Western Digital and the like for the world’s largest portable hard drive, the MiniStation. I’m a big fan of portability. I’m a big fan of storage space. And I’m going to need to get some serious work-on to fill up the 300GB hard drive in ...
Rechargeable USB Lighter Is Two Faced Flash Drive
2007-11-06 23:57:00 Convergence is always a technology innovation most appreciate. The folks with the most creative and useful ideas generally land on top. Here is an example of an idea that is middle ground. The rechargeable USB lighter that doubles as USB drive. So here is how the design works. Rather than using fuel ...
Another Group of Odd-Ball UFD?s
2007-11-06 00:21:00 Vavolo is known for sticking USB into crazy looking gadgets and gizmos and their latest collection is no exception. Not much to say. USB storage in the ultimate novelty deliverance. USB donut, USB fortune cooking, USB coffee cup, USB beer bottle and USB camera. What the hell are these guys thinking. Source: EverythingUSB Powered By: 2007 USB Powered ...
ioDrive: ultra high-speed 640 GB Flash Storage
2007-10-26 04:56:00 What you think about the storage media with a data rates speed almost the same with DRAM ?. It is almost a thousand times faster than any existing disk. ioDrive is designed to deliver 100,000 IOPS, 800MB/s Read and 600MB/s Write. io stands for Indexed Object, ioDrive is based on NAND, this is an ultra high speed and huge flash drive .The ioDrive™ is the industry's first, NAND based enterprise storage solution that provides access rates comparable to DRAM with storage capacity on par with disks — being able to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by 100x. The ioDrive™ leverages Fusion-io's proprietary ioMemory™ architecture to strip away the complexity and limitations of traditional storage infrastructure to provide a high performance, highly scalable Local Storage device or Storage Cache deviceIoDrive uses PCIe x4 connector to enable rapid implementation into todays computers, whihc rewuires no changes to applications or infrastructure. While the iODrive el...
SanDisk sues a score of flash storage vendors
2007-10-25 20:40:00 SanDisk is suing 25 companies for infringing on its patents on removable flash storage devices. The flash memory maker filed a suit with a U.S. District Court in Wisconsin and another with the U.S. International Trade Commission Wednesday evening, seeking damages, a permanent injunction and an order from …
Webster?s New World College Dictionary on USB
2007-10-18 15:51:00 If I’m sending my kids off to college and they don’t know how to use the internet for spelling…well that’s money poorly spent. On the other-hand, it’s always nice to load up a flash drive with 140MBs of data so you can spell check on the fly. Wait…doesn’t every program, including Photoshop, include spell check ...
Halo 3 Mimobot - Master Chief
2007-09-25 22:50:00 The Mimico Halo 3 Master Chief isn’t R rated, but is one cool collectors item if you’re into Halo. As with all Mimobot items, the Halo 3 is only available in limited quantity (5,000) and available in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB capacities. The Master Chief comes with exclusive content such as Halo 3 artwork, episode ...
Hack: Slap a USB Hard Drive in Your UPS
2007-09-25 22:31:00 Do you have a UPS that went south on you? Don’t throw it away, turn it into the ultimate hard drive storage spot. Our good friend Alan from Hacked Gadgets found this 77 second video on hacking your broken UPS to include a USB drive. Who would ever think to look in a UPS ...
Not USB 3.0, But Speedy USB 2.0 by Buffalo
2007-09-21 19:09:00 Buffalo figured out a way to turbo boost USB 2.0 to claim increased transfer speed of up-to 60%. So what’s the deal? Buffalo gives no detail to this increased performance and makes a broad statement about Windows and Mac compatibility for the two new USB Turbo products, the MiniStation and DriveStation. I would figure Buffalo ...
$4,357 - 64GB Flash Drive - Someone Please Explain Why?
2007-09-16 22:38:00 Cruising through Amazon several days ago my buddy from New York, who runs this talented design firm, came across a 64GB flash drive to the price tag of $4,357. He immediately shot me an email. Why? is all he typed… I didn’t have a good answer for him. Sure portability is something you ...
USB Cleverly Disguised as Cassette Tape
2007-08-14 00:18:00 A company called Suck UK is about to launch this UFD cleverly disguised as a cassette tape. Nothing more than some creative packaging. So why am I writing about this? Because the other products on their website are absolutely classic for a good laugh. Such as Suck UK’s Smoking Mittens, Razorblade ...
A Fruitful USB Day
2007-07-25 21:17:00 If the USB A$$ Blower didn’t satisfy your need for fresh air then maybe a more subtle approach is needed…a more politically correct way of freshening up your office space. How about fresh fruit straight from a flash drive? The crazy UFDs coming out these days are a stretch to grab marketing share; however I ...
IOCELL With U3 Like Launch Pad
2007-07-18 22:58:00 IOCELL introduced their version of the U3 launch pad - I like the name better - very direct with “USB Computer.” U3 might have gotten more traction with that name. IOCELL created a launch pad to provide the user with an easy-to-use interface for launching portable applications. Really, the same thing as U3, ...
M-Flyer Pilot; Doesn?t Sound Like a Flash Drive
2007-06-30 00:02:00 Memorex went to the streets with the M-Flyer Pilot TravelDrive UFD. Using the retractable USB connector design we’ve seen before, Memorex changed it up a spring loaded USB connector. So with the click of a button the USB connector pops-in and pops-out. With the capless design flash drive, Memorex also bundles in some 256-bit ...
M-Flyer Pilot; Doesn?t Sound Like a Flash Drive
2007-06-30 00:02:00 Memorex went to the streets with the M-Flyer Pilot TravelDrive UFD. Using the retractable USB connector design we’ve seen before, Memorex changed it up a spring loaded USB connector. So with the click of a button the USB connector pops-in and pops-out. With the capless design flash drive, Memorex also bundles in some 256-bit ...
USB Purse Couldn?t Be Worse
2007-06-14 02:48:00 There are far-n-few between geeky gals out there to make the USB Handbag something of value other than an exercise in creative design. Here the designer, Dima Komissarov includes the USB purse to inflate [like USB Spongebob] as capacity increases. Don’t know about you, but it all looks Photochop’d to me. Source: Gizmodo Powered By: 2007 USB ...
USB Purse Couldn?t Be Worse
2007-06-14 02:48:00 There are far-n-few between geeky gals out there to make the USB Handbag something of value other than an exercise in creative design. Here the designer, Dima Komissarov includes the USB purse to inflate [like USB Spongebob] as capacity increases. Don’t know about you, but it all looks Photochop’d to me. Source: Gizmodo Powered By: 2007 USB ...
Internal Readyboost Saves USB Port
2007-05-23 20:37:00 PQI has a thoughtful approach to USB Readyboost. Rather then sucking up a cherished external USB port PQI is taking an internal approach. Here you see a PQI 2GB memory enhancement for Readyboost via the USB header connector on a motherboard. Although it might not enhance the performance of your Vista system, it is ...
Lexar JumpDrive Secure II is Loaded, or is it?
2007-05-14 17:50:00 We’ve seen the capacity meter before from Lexar and they’ve now officially introduces the capacity meter technology to the Secure II USB flash drive line. The load meter doesn’t require connection to display the amount of storage left, it doesn’t require firmware and isn’t OS specific. It’s a standalone technology to communicate one simple thing ...
Old School Eraser Leads 2nd Life as USB Flash Drive
2007-05-11 19:59:00 New Launches posted this old school eraser which houses a USB flash drive. The clever design is an irony of sorts, the eraser erases your mismatched efforts while the USB Drive stores them! The flash drive is a 1GB size and is available for about $100 USD. What is hard to get my hands around is ...
Coca Cola USB Can, RockStar to Follow?
2007-04-24 19:30:00 The Coca Cola USB can doesn’t look as refreshing as the real thing, but will definitely last longer. The USB stick is available in 64MB-2GB sizes, high speed USB and available in silver, blue or red. The USB Coke Can 2.0 drive has a new, faster version coming out which also stores more data…it comes ...
Home Brew Aluminum USB Flash Case
2007-04-14 00:16:00 So here’s a guy who took geekness to the next level. After the enclosure broke off Russell’s 1GB UFD Voyager, he decided to up the durability factor by a Thousand. Russell home brewed an aluminum UFD case to insure breakage never happened again. I’d probably do the same if I had access to this ...
Kingston unveils flash storage vending machine in UK
2007-04-11 00:00:00 We wouldn't recommend hopping on the next non-stop flight to London Gatwick Airport's North Terminal or anything, but for those passing through in dire need of an extra SD / CF card or USB drive, Kingston's got your back. Joining SIM cards, iPods, digicams, shoes, and all sorts of other bizarre goods, Kingston's self-branded vending machine will doll out presumably overpriced flash memory to travelers in need. Reportedly, New Jersey-based MyMemory will be operating the machines, and of course, they will all be open 24/7 for your late night (and mid-day) flash storage requirements. Interestingly, the UK units will supposedly utilize the oft hacked Chip & PIN technology, which means the countdown to gobs of free memory (and a high-speed police chase) has officially begun.[Via EverythingUSB]
Give the Stamp of Approval via USB
2007-04-10 23:07:00 I’m on the fence about this one. Solid Alliance came out with a UFD which also incorporates a stamp. It’s called the USB Stamp. Use one end to store data and the other to graffiti up whatever is with-in arms reach. The problem I see with this is the time it ...
Asus Eee PC mod nets 20 GB of internal flash storage
0000-00-00 00:00:00 At this rate, the Asus Eee PC is going to win a 2008 InkBlot award for the most hacked UMPC. The latest modification adds two internal USB ports, one of which currently houses 16 GB worth of guts from a Corsair Voyager flash drive. For the math-challenged, that brings the ... |
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