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by Mark Rollins on December 27, 2007
I know there are some out there who just have to have their CDs, DVDs, and/or CD Roms organized in the best possible way. Fortunately, the CD Carousel Plus is made for you.
All have to do is enter i...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on October 2, 2007
Let's face it, flash drives are really convenient. However, if your flash drive falls into the wrong hands, so does your data. What's a paranoid geek to do?
Enter the Ironkey, sold by Think...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 10, 2007
One common complaint I hear with cable company-provided DVR equipment is that the ability to store more movies locally is very limited. You can store a few programs, but try and store a whole season o...
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by Eric Hanson on June 29, 2007
There are all kinds of USB drives out there: cheap ones, simple ones, ones shaped like fruits or vegetables or sticks or engines, ones that can run software and ones that dare you to drive a car over ...
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by Eric Hanson on June 16, 2007
If you're the sort of geek (like me) who finds the idea of carrying around the potential of an entire computer in your pocket pretty exciting, but don't know how to get started, InformationWee...
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by Eric Hanson on June 16, 2007
Hmm...it's almost like someone combined the concepts behind the last two Gadget Weblogs posts: meet Porcelain Memory, a 1GB portable flash drive whose entire appeal lies in its pristine white porc...
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by Eric Hanson on June 16, 2007
Presumably looking for a way to help their products shine in a competitive market, manufacturer CA has developed a new 2 GB flash drive shaped like a credit card. The idea is that the Internet Securit...
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by Eric Hanson on June 9, 2007
Hitachi, which has already made headlines this year by releasing the world's first terabyte hard drive, is going into the portable hard drive market with a line of USB devices sold through Best Bu...
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by Eric Hanson on June 6, 2007
You know those SD cards with the USB connection built inside (like this one from SanDisk)? Well, for all of you MMC fans, there will soon be an MMC version called the MiCard. According to ZDNet UK, th...
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by Eric Hanson on June 4, 2007
Two things that intrigued me about this drive from Cavalry. First, it's cheap, especially for the size: $99 for 500 GBs is a nice price for a hard drive, especially an external one. Second, it'...
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by Eric Hanson on May 31, 2007
Here's an interesting concept: take the ReadyBoost idea from Windows Vista and move it to its logical conclusion, with a USB drive that plugs directly into your motherboard, giving you the memory ...
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by Eric Hanson on May 24, 2007
I feel like the Gadget Hip Holster from ThinkGeek would be a lot cooler hanging from the shirt-sleeved shoulders of some hardboiled detective - maybe mark wahlberg's character from The Departed. H...
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by Eric Hanson on May 15, 2007
I'm pretty sure I've seen drives like this one before, but the concept still fascinates me for reasons odd and unknown: a digital readout that displays remaining capacity - be it 512 MB or 8 G...
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by Eric Hanson on May 10, 2007
AkihabaraNews won't favor us with a link for some reason and I'm not having any luck finding the item on the SolidAlliance website, so we'll have to take this little tidbit on faith: Solid...
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by Eric Hanson on May 5, 2007
When it comes to high-volume portable storage, you have two options: you can get a full-featured external hard drive, like the ones made by Seagate and Maxtor, or you can buy a drive enclosure and put...
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by Eric Hanson on May 5, 2007
We haven't had a themed USB drive on gadgets weblog in a while and I thought it might be time for a resurgence, so today I give you: the "Freshly Baked" series of drives from Valvolo. Th...
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by Eric Hanson on May 3, 2007
On the heels of OCZ Technology's announcement yesterday about the VBoost, Lexar has launched its own readyboost-capable product, the ExpressCard SSD. The ExpressCard, which is a solid-state drive,...
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by Eric Hanson on May 2, 2007
Some day, flash drives will be so tough they'll laugh at you when you try to transfer documents on to them, call you sissy and tell you to drop and give them twenty. However, until we have the tec...
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by Eric Hanson on May 2, 2007
One of the cooler OS technologies to launch with Windows Vista is ReadyBoost, which gives Vista the ability to make use of memory on attached USB flash drives to boost system memory during heavy loads...
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by Mark Rollins on April 30, 2007
Keychain technology doesn't seem like anything that can be improved upon. Until we all have digital keys, the Keyport Slide is designed for that.
Keyport Slide is designed to arrange your keys i...
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by Eric Hanson on April 28, 2007
I gather the idea behind Internet-ready external hard drives (aka RAS drives) is fairly new (at least for most consumers), but it's certainly a good one: if you've got data you need to access ...
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by Eric Hanson on April 26, 2007
You know how your mother told you not to pick things up off the ground? Well, here's why: hackers left USB sticks in a parking lot in London loaded with a Trojan horse that steals banking informat...
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by Eric Hanson on April 25, 2007
Remember the AMBER Alert drive, the USB drive that stores scads of information about your kids in case of a kidnapping? I think I've found the next logical step: the Band of Life. The idea is pret...
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by tiago on April 23, 2007
SimpleTech has recently revealed their latest product in the "external + portable" hard drives category, it was designed by the popular Pininfarina (same company that designs Ferrari cars ...
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by Eric Hanson on April 14, 2007
Here's one for the security nuts: according to TechWorld, a Computer security company called BeCrypt has plans to launch a product called Trusted Client, which runs a secure operating system, comp...
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by Eric Hanson on April 10, 2007
If you're like Ars Technica blogger Frank Caron, you've got a big problem: you've downloaded so much nostalgia courtesy of Nintendo's Virtual Console that your Wii's memory is full...
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by Eric Hanson on April 6, 2007
If you're wondering whether or not your nintendo wii will one day have expanded storage capabilities for the hundreds of Virtual Console games you want to download (plus maybe a content delivery s...
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by Eric Hanson on March 29, 2007
If you're into the 2.5 inch hard drive scene, as in you have a number of them available and you need to port them around for some reason, this portable drive case from OWC seems like a pretty good...
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by Eric Hanson on March 20, 2007
I've always thought the heavily armored USB drives were a bit of a gimmick, but ComputerWorld writer Robert Mitchell seems to need one - he lost his last USB drive in the snow and ended up crushin...
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by Eric Hanson on March 18, 2007
I believe there's a saying about every fashion having its faults; maybe we're looking at a new fault right here? If you're so cool that carrying a flash drive in your pocket is a habit onl...
