Archive for August, 2005
SD Card With USB: An Alternative Design
They say there is more than one way to skin a cat, but did the Deliverance-types who invented this strange phrase also realise there is more than one way to build an SD Card with integrated USB interface? You see, they don’t teach you that out in the bayous…
Taiwan based PDC is the company that [...]
Imation Ships Most Powerful USB Flash Drive
Imation has increased the storage capacity of its USB 2.0 flash memory product to 2GB. The new USB 2.0 Swivel Flash Drive also features a ‘never-lose’ swivel cap design to help protect the gold-plated USB connector from dust, moisture and damage.
About the size of an AA battery, the 28g device should be ideal for quickly [...]
USB flash drive features fingerprint authentication
Taiwan – PC Winner International Inc.’s FP51SL-512 ThumbMax Fingerprint Flash Drive is embedded with a fingerprint authentication module. It has a sliding cover for protecting its USB plug and a 13.6×11.8mm area-type sensor.
The USB 2.0 device comes with Flash Romer, an application that allows users to save their e-mails and favorite websites into the drive. [...]
Super Mario War
UPDATE:
A new version was just released with the new added features:
New (amongst dozen other things)
* spawn animations
* different awards
* items (flowers, stars, 1up)
* new sounds
* improved jumping
* destroyable blocks, [...]
SanDisk Cruizer Profile
Modern USB Flash drives, also called memory keys or thumbdrives, let you carry megabytes worth of information with you wherever you go. But the problem has been how to lock those memory keys down in case you lose them.
Sandisk, one of the top manufacturers of Flash memory gear, has come up with a way to [...]
Re-designed DataTraveler USB drive
KINGSTON Technology has enhanced its range of popular DataTraveler USB Flash drive product line.
New features include attractive cases, which are colour-coded by capacity, and a sleek yet practical, exterior case re-design.
This USB storage solution enables quick and easy application-specific selection via colour-coding.
The DataTraveler products are easily identifiable with 128MB in red colouring, 256MB in green, [...]
The Ultimate USB Key
USB thumb drives have shown themselves to be a superior alternative to other portable media such as diskettes and writable optical discs. They’re smaller and can hold tons of data, and most current operating systems recognize them without needing any special drivers. We’ve seen 1GB drives for under $100, and drives with smaller capacities start [...]
Review: Four Pocket-Sized Hard Drives
The pocket pals reviewed in this article are from Archos (4GB), Imation (2GB), Seagate (5GB), and Sony (5GB). All of these drives are powered through the computer’s USB port. Don’t expect them to work from a non-powered USB hub or keyboard. Both of these devices draw power from your PC’s internal USB, where the maximum [...]
Flash drive figurines
Mimoco has announced a line of flash memory figurines. They look neat. (Too bad the website is a Flash nightmare. Every time you click in something, you’re greeting with a “Loading” progress bar.)
Full article here
Thanks to bone for submitting the link
Card reader doubles as USB flash drive
Taiwan – The FC110 from Tairom Technology Co. Ltd is a card reader that supports SD, MMC, MS, MS PRO and MS Duo cards. It is compatible with USB 1.0/1.1/2.0 interfaces.
The card reader has an LED indicator and supports Plug and Play. It supports up to 1 million read/write/erase cycles and preserves data for more [...]
