Here’s a perfect example of a product being developed for no practical reason other than to prove that it can be done. Don’t get me wrong, 256GB of flash storage squeezed into a USB thumb drive is technologically cool and all, but in the infamous words of former Philadelphia Eagles’ running back Ricky [...]
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Kingston’s 256GB USB Flash Drive…Are You Scared Yet?
February 19th, 2010
Posted in Flash Memory, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB 
Tags: Flash Memory, Kingston DataTraveler 310, USB thumb drive 
No Comments »A 12X External BluRay Burner – Thank You USB 3.0!
November 28th, 2009
As the only remaining high definition DVD format, BluRay is here to stay. And although its adoption has been relatively slow (but improving), more people are standardizing on the technology for storage uses beyond that of the high definition movie industry. With a 50GB capacity per dual layer disk and rapidly falling BluRay burner and [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, USB Tags: Buffalo Technology, external burner, storage, USB 3.0, USB BluRay burner No Comments »What do you get when you cross a printer and a paintbrush?
November 4th, 2009
…a PrintBrush of course! Seriously, this has to be one of the coolest gadgets I’ve seen in a while. And while full scale production of the $200 device is tentatively scheduled for early 2010, there’s an amazing video to check out below.
The PrintBrush could be the perfect accessory for business travel, allowing instant and on-the-spot document preparation [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Peripherals Tags: portable document printing, PrintBrush, PrintDreams, printers No Comments »The Super Talent[ed] USB 3.0 Thumb Drive
November 4th, 2009
Well it’s finally happening. Products supporting the much anticipated (and blazing fast) USB 3.0 standard are slowly trickling out. And while it’s unfortunate that Intel isn’t integrating support for the standard into its chipsets until 2011, consumers can upgrade their PC motherboard or add a PCI expansion card to take advantage of a few of [...]
Posted in Flash Memory, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB Tags: bootable pen drive, Flash Memory, Super Talent, USB 3.0 thumbdrive, USB thumb drive 2 Comments »The GlideTV Navigator is making a HTPC seem really cool right now…
October 14th, 2009
The user interface gap between Internet based media and traditional television viewing has been discussed here quite a few times. While the current generation of digital media players often offer proprietary interfaces that attempt to simplify access to the vast amounts of online content from sites such as Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and Swarmcast, the result [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Gadgets, Home Theater, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, TV and Video, USB Tags: digital media player, hdmi, home theater, TV 3 Comments »A Keyboard Cleaner than a Toilet
October 12th, 2009
They say timing is everything. Given that, Vioguard has timed their most recent product release perfectly. With the recent media buzz surrounding potential outbreaks of the seasonal and swine flus and given that computer keyboards are typically infested with more bacteria than toilet seats, Vioguard’s self sanitizing UVKB50 keyboard is designed to kill these germs before [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Peripherals Tags: flu, germs, keyboard, medicine, sanitary, Vioguard 1 Comment »Western Digital My Book External HDD’s Get A Spine
October 6th, 2009
Despite the benefits of network attached storage with RAID and QNAP’s recent attempt to bring the technology to the home user, consumers generally still seem to prefer external USB hard drives for additional storage capacity and data backup, due mainly to the convenience, ease, and cost of these devices. For those employing multiple external hard [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB Tags: backup, hard drive, My Book, storage, USB, WD, Western Digital 2 Comments »DoubleSight monitors will have you seeing double!
September 30th, 2009
I’ve never been a huge fan of dual desktop display configurations. Placing two 17″ or larger LCD displays side by side with their bezels slicing right through my continuous Windows Desktop space is annoying, distracting, and takes up too much real desktop space.
I do like the emerging trend of smaller, USB based auxiliary displays, such as Mimo’s [...]
Posted in Displays, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, USB Tags: display, DoubleSight, LCD, monitor, USB No Comments »Freecom releases first USB 3.0 external HDD
September 26th, 2009
Oh, how the USB standard has changed the world. Gone are the days of finicky 9-pin serial port connections requiring proprietary driver installations that never seemed to work correctly. Having thus far truly lived up to its name, the Universal Serial Bus standard has become as ubiquitous as the computer itself thanks to its ease of use, [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB Tags: eSATA, Firewire, Freecom, hard drive, storage, USB 2 Comments »Freeze your PC
September 21st, 2009
While Linux users are well versed with the concept of the LiveCD/DVD (or the very cool PenDriveLinux variant of it described here), which allows a PC to boot an entire operating system and software in a temporary and unwritable state, those married to the Windows operating system may be unaware of this technology’s features and benefits. [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage Tags: Icebox, Linux, LiveCD, spyware, USBfever 1 Comment »
