November 11, 2009 @ 11:59 pm
New to Blackburn’s 2010 bike equipment line is a new adaptation of the Flea front light with a USB charging station. The previous version of the Flea required connecting two ends of a charger onto a battery. The new USB charging station makes it a bit less cumbersome, doing away with the wires and making the power source any powered USB port. Nice!
September 15, 2009 @ 10:00 pm
The newly announced Belkin Home Base looks like it could be useful sitting on my desk, connecting me with my external harddrive, my various thumb drives, and a USB mouse. My only gripe is that the 4 USB ports are stacked in such a way that you can only fit the slimmest of USB devices together in there. I think the ports should have been vertical and positioned side by side. It’s a nice idea, but I’m having trouble justifying the $129 price point for what is basically a USB hub. Tell me what’s the real deal in the comments.
June 27, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
I would actually buy this USB tulip hub if it didn’t cost $22. [via]
May 29, 2009 @ 6:18 pm
Just the other day, I Twitter’d about how I needed more USB ports on my laptop and today I came across this 49-port USB hub from Cambrionix. Who knows if Cambrionix will ever sell ‘em. I’d buy one.
November 21, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
The next generation of USB products will be able to transfer files up to 4.8Gbps. Because of that incredible speed, the new USB connection will be called USB SuperSpeed. Gizmodo says that the new connection will allow for files as big as 25GB to be transferred in about 70 seconds!
I cannot wait until these start popping up all over the place.
October 30, 2008 @ 5:56 pm
Western Digital announced today an update to their Passport Studio line of external harddrives for the Mac that include a FireWire 800 connection for ultra-fast transfers. The drive still comes with the traditional USB connection, but the addition of the FireWire port should be a good thing for people who handle big files on a regular basis. Western Digital is catering this drive to digital video professionals and photographers mostly, but that’s not to say that you can’t transer other types of big files (say, full DVD rips in a flash).
Anyway, if you’re looking for a drive with FireWire support, you’ll probably want the biggest drive possible anyway, so the 500GB version is available now for $250. Not bad, not bad. I’d like one.
