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SmartDisk Delivers Tasty ByteSize USB Hard Drive
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: Peripherals, Storage, USB,
SmartDisk, a maker of storage products and technologies, today has a new 2” by 2” external USB hard drive available. The SmartDisk ByteSize is priced at $119.99 for a 6GB model and $149.99 for an 8GB drive.
The ByteSize from SmartDisk is a “mass storage class” computer add-on, meaning it requires no driver installation when used with operating systems like Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Windows XP and Windows Me. Few other details were made available, but this device looks to be a pretty standard USB hard drive computer peripheral.
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| SmartDisk ByteSize Product Information
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2 CD Racks With Style from Creative Motion
Posted by Dave White Categories: Accessories, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio / Video, Storage,
The folks at Creative Motion know how to light up a room. Check out their latest home entertainment offerings, a pair of CD racks that will have your friends and family looking twice (or maybe shielding their eyes) at the brilliance.
The item on the left is the Glitter Rack, and the title is very descriptive: It can certainly hold up to 32 CDs, but its main claim to fame is the sparkling glitter chips floating through the space of the center glass. On the right is the one for all you DNA fans out there. It’s the Kinetic Blacklight CD Rack, and the center of this one is a spinning colorful helix lit up by a blacklight bulb in back.
Pricing varies a bit between the two racks. The Glitter Rack goes for $29.99 USD. The Kinetic Blacklight Rack holds 36 CDs, and you can get your hands on it for $39.99 USD.
Read More | ChipChick
Gallery: 2 CD Racks With Style from Creative Motion
Apricorn added a new external hard drive to its product line up today with the unveiling of the Aegis Portable. This 2.5” hard drive is available in 40GB, 80GB, 120GB and 160GB storage capacities.
The Aegis Portable weighs 5.5 ounces and has an integrated USB cable as well as shock mounting. Features on this external hard drive include PC and Mac compatibility, backup software, encryption software and a padded neoprene pouch to carry the drive while traveling.
Read More | Apricorn Aegis Portable Product Info
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Sony DVDirect MC1: Burn DVDs Without the PC
Posted by Dave White Categories: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio / Video, Storage,
Why do you need a PC to burn your photos and videos to DVD? Sony wants to you know that you don’t - not if you buy their new DVD burner. It’s the DVDirect MC1, and it takes the PC out of the burning equation. You can record camcorder, VCR, or even PVR videos right onto DVD+Rs and DVD+RWs. If static images are more your thing, then you can copy those JPEGs or GIFs right to a DVD-R or DVD-RW as a DVD slideshow. Just stick the memory card or stick in the slot and away you burn.
Like most other similar products these days, the MC1 allows you to print those images as well, to a PictBridge-compatible printer. You can look at those images, the videos, and (of course) the finished products on the built-in LCD screen. Lastly, if you must include that PC, just make sure you have a USB cord handy.
Read More | SonyBurners
Gallery: Sony DVDirect MC1: Burn DVDs Without the PC
Lexar Adds PowerToGo to JumpDrive Lightnings
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: PC / Laptop, Storage, USB,
Lexar said today they are bringing the PowerToGo software platform to their JumpDrive Lightning USB flash drives so users can create a virtual desktop environment they can carry from one Windows-based machine to another. These drives are available in 1GB and 2GB capacities and price from $79.99.
The PowerToGo-equipped JumpDrive Lightnings will let users install and run many standard Windows applications directly from the USB drive. Once done working a host computer the drive is removed, leaving no history behind. Also included on JumpDrive Lightnings will be the EverNote software product for capturig, storing and accessing information, such as typed and handwritten notes, web clips, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, photos and documents.
Read More | Lexar JumpDrive Lightning Product Page
Gallery: Lexar Adds PowerToGo to JumpDrive Lightnings
Digital Foci Ships Picture Porter Elite
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: Accessories, Cameras, Storage,
Digital Foci today said they’d begun shipping their Picture Porter Elite portable digital photo albums. These devices come in 40GB and 80GB storage sizes and will be available in early August for $449 and $549 respectively.
The Picture Porter Elite sports a 3.6” LCD screen and has a built-in memory card reader which can read CF I/ II, MD , MMC , SD Card, Memory Stick, MS PRO, and MS Duo, and MS PRO Duo memory cards. Features of this device include the ability to save photos and video from memory cards directly to the Picture Porter Elite’s hard drive, connectivity to a television for a larger display experience, direct printing to any PictBridge compatible printer without a computer, music file playback, voice recording and video recording.
Read More | Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite Product Page
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Edge Tech Corp, a maker of computer memory related products, seems to have struck a deal with DaimlerChrysler to use the Jeep brand as today some new USB flash drives bearing the Jeep label was unveiled. The new Jeep USB Flash Drive comes in 256MB and 512MB of storage is priced at $29.95 and $44.95 respectively after rebate, while the Jeep USB Flash Drive Plus Ink Pen is priced, after rebate, at $29.95 for 128MB and $49.95 for 512MB.
The Jeep USB Flash Drive, which sports a rugged design in keeping with the brand it is named after, is about the size of one’s thumb and pretty typical of USB flash drives. The Jeep USB Flash Drive Plus Ink Pen is more interesting in that it has a dual function design as an executive style ink pen, with the pen’s barrel being unscrewed to reveal the drive. The drive portion of the pen plugs directly into a computer’s USB port and is recognized as an additional storage device on the user’s desktop.
Read More | Edge Tech Press Release
Gallery: Edge Tech Offering Jeep USB Flash Drives, Pen
SanDisk today rolled out what they are calling the industry’s highest capacity SD card. The new 4GB SD High Capacity (SDHC) card is priced at $199.99 and should be available this month.
The 4GB SDHC card, which comes bundled with a compatible USB reader, is based off of the SDHC specification. This specification, developed by the SD Association, is a completely new design that is required for cards and hosts to support 4GB to 32GB capacities and adhere to the SD 2.00 specification. SDHC cards require an SDHC-compatible reader to be read properly. The SanDisk 4GB SDHC card, which has a rating with a minimum data transfer rate of 2MB/sec, reportedly can store more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures, more than 1,000 digital songs or up to 8 hours of MPEG-4 video.
It should be noted that not all devices support the new SDHC standard. To ensure compatibility, one needs to look for the SDHC logo on the product or its packaging.
Read More | SanDisk SDHC Product Page
Gallery: SanDisk Debuts 4GB SD Card
iQBioDrive Uses Fingerprint Security Technology
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: Corporate News, PC / Laptop, Storage, USB,
iQBio, a subsidiary of Artemis Solutions Group, yesterday announced a 100GB portable hard drive which makes use of fingerprint encryption and security software to protect its contents. The new 100GB Portable iQBioDrive is priced at $299.95 and, if you care about this thing, is designed and assembled here in the good old U.S. of A.
The iQBioDrive is reportedly secured by 128bit AES encryption and makes use of the company’s BioCert fingerprint technology. According to iQBio, the drive is “partitioned into three ‘mapped drives’ on Windows 2000 (SP3) or Windows XP systems. The first is a partition that is seen by the system as a read only drive and contains the biometric encryption software. The second partition is set at 100MB or so…and is a public partition where files may be stored and used without biometric authentication…The last partition is the secure drive that can only be accessed through the use of biometric authentication or a 256 character override password.”
Read More | 100GB Portable iQBioDrive Product Page
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Apricorn Announces Aegis Mini Hard Drive
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: Accessories, PC / Laptop, Storage,
Apricorn, a developer of portable storage products, has a new “ultra portable” hard drive family announced today. The first product of this line up is the Aegis Mini, a pocket sized, 1.8” external drive with USB 2.0 or FireWire connectivity options.
The Aegis Mini, available in 30GB and 60GB capacities, is bus powered and has an integrated cable which wraps around the drive when not in use. The drive protects its data with a 16-point omni directional shock mounting system and comes with a software suite which includes backup software, synchronizing software, encryption software and hard drive health monitor software.
Read More | Apricorn Product Page
Gallery: Apricorn Announces Aegis Mini Hard Drive
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