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Stackable USB Flash Drives, Neat Idea!

Monday, January 15, 2007

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Why waste the few kilobytes/megabytes left on your old 99% filled USB flash drives? Designer Vicky Wei aims to solve that by designing a new kind of “stackable” USB flash drives. By connecting the drives in a daisy chain manner, the storage capacities can be combined. Also, by connecting the drives, only one USB slot needs [...]

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Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo Goes 8GB

Thursday, January 11, 2007

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A year has passed since the announcement of the 4GB model of the Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo, time for the 8GB! According to Mike Kahn, senior manager for Memory Stick Media at Sony Electronics, the 8GB MSX-M8GS Memory Stick model will store approximately 1,500 images in 10-megapixel, fine mode; more than 18 hours of video [...]

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Credit Card Sized MP3 Player By Walletex

Thursday, January 4, 2007

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Some of you might remember the Wallet Flash by Walletex. It is a USB flash drive that is shaped and sized almost like an actual credit card. This allows easy storage of the drive. Now, Walletex is announcing a MP3 player that is shaped just like Wallet Flash. It is expected to be available by June [...]

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Humping Dog For USB. Oh My Eyes!

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

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Here’s one for the sick minded readers who find perverted joy in watching a plastic dog humping their laptop. Digital World Tokyo is selling them at $20 each (White Dog, Brown Dog, Chocolate Dog), or $55 for the full set of three. Here’s a video of it in action (check out that mosaic). It hurts my [...]

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New Memory: 500-1000 Times Faster Than Flash

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

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What do you think about new memories that are 500 to 1,000 times faster than our current flash memories? Wicked eh? And how about using only half the power? The researchers from IBM, Macronix, and Qimonda who created it are calling it the “phase-change” memory. Imagine the possibilities if it ever comes true. Instant-on computers, unlimited [...]

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Memory Stick PRO-HG: 3x Faster Than PRO DUO

Monday, December 11, 2006

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Both Sony and SanDisk have announced the new Memory Stick PRO-HG format. Hurray for all PSP gamers and Sony Alpha DSLR shutterbugs, as it provides three times faster writing speed (60MB/sec) and a max capacity of 32GB. Unlike SDHC memory cards, the Memory Stick PRO-HG is backward-compatible with PRO-only devices, although it will no longer run [...]

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Transcend’s Stainless Steel JetFlash 180 Flash Drive

Monday, November 27, 2006

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The new Transcend JetFlash 180 is a flash drive clad in lovely stainless steel. And I know many of you out there are like me, suckers for sleek-looking stuffs like this. The drives come in 1GB, 4GB, and 8GB. Transcend also throws in PC-locking, data and email encryption, and data synchronization. And price? No price announced yet. [...]

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Gauging Age With Cameras’ Red-Eye Effects

Friday, July 7, 2006

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Unless you are some pro photographer, you’ve probably seen those dreadful red-eye effects in some of your pictures taken with flash. Because of the intensity of most camera flashes, any reflection off the retina of the subjects’ eyes shows up as red-eyes in the resulting picture. So what does it has to do with gauging a [...]

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PQI’s 64GB Notebook Flash Drives Ready For August

Friday, June 9, 2006

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Looks like PQI has managed to beat Samsung’s 32GB flash drive that is equipped on the company’s Q30 notebook. As mentioned in the post, solid state/flash drives for notebooks are truly a big step up from traditional hard drives. But like all things gadgetry, the problem lies in the price. Getting one of this baby [...]

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Samsung Q30-SSD Notebook with 32GB Flash HDD to Launch in June

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

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It was only two months ago that Samsung made an announcement about the 32GB flash memory powered notebook that they are working on. And today, Samsung has told the world that they’re now ready to ship them in June! This is great news, because flash memories, a.k.a solid-state disks (SSD), have so many advantages over traditional [...]

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