As SSDs (solid state drive) continue to drop in price there are more and more platter hard drives become displaced; especially if the drive came from a laptop. One way to keep these drives functional and useful is by placing them within an external enclosure. While some SSD upgrade kits come with 2.5” external USB …
When is a pair of speakers not just a pair of speakers? When it’s the Audio Move SD from Satechi! Today for review I have the Audio Move SD which is a small portable speaker unit that can be used with anything that has a standard audio jack. It works very well as a speaker, …
Yeah, ok I want one of these. The new Pioneeer BDR-XD04 is their or most probably the smallest and lightest blu-ray burner on the market today. This thing can handle the 25gb and 50gb discs, I can do a lot of backups on those. I’m really tired of using DVDs for my backups, it just …
Yep CES is almost here and we’re already starting to see the announcements coming in. Sadly I won’t be there so I’ll be missing all the fun, but I’ll try and keep you informed as best I can as I’ll be bombarded with news from it I’m sure and I’ll share it all with you. …
They call 16” portable? I guess it is as that’s about the size of laptops right? USB monitors are neat I think, they can be very useful, especially if you’re like me and must have multiple monitors. The new AOC e1649fwu monitor offers a maximum resolution of 1366 x 768 at 60 Hz, and receives …
Today for review I’ve got a product that just has to be seen or actually heard to be believed. It’s a product that I thought was just a gimmick, but I was wrong, very wrong. It’s called the Pocket Boom Portable Vibration Speaker, and it’s a speaker that you can …
Hey, Hey, I’m back with another review for you. It’s a little review, or an equally little product from Scosche called the boomCAN. This little product is meant to let you take your music with you, or any audio really. The boomCAN is a tiny little speaker with a big sound that comes with a …
Today I’ve quick review of a rather unique and useful product from Bracketron called the Nav-Mat III which is a portable GPS mount for the dash of your car. It couldn’t be simpler to use really, it just sits on your dashboard and you attach your GPS to it. Well it’s a little bit more …
For me multiple monitors are a must, right now as I type this I’m running four of them on this computer actually. They just allow me to do so many more things at one time. When I go back to a single monitor it just feels so weird to me, that’s one of the reasons …
Seagate is at it again, this time making their GoFlex drive even smaller! Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced the availability of its new GoFlex® Slim portable hard drive — a svelte, 9mm, 2.5-inch external drive designed for the latest trend of portable, thin, stylish laptops and netbooks. Initially showcased at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics …
Hey all you people up north there, this one’s for you! Yep, Magellan has just announced the new eXplorist 610 handheld GPS unit just for Canada. Magellan, a pioneering GPS brand, today announced the introduction of the Magellan eXplorist 610 GPS receiver with Summit Series topographic maps of Canada preloaded. The eXplorist 610 GPS …
The iPig is one of the goofiest but yet coolest iPod docks out there and it just got cooler with the Cool Pig! Speakal, a company driven by its passion for sound, intelligent technology and innovative designs, is thrilled to announce the Cool iPig Apple-certified speaker dock. Following in the hoof steps of the …
We always need more power and Scoshe is the company that can provide it surely with their new goBAT II! Scosche Industries, award-winning innovator of consumer technology, is excited to announce the availability of the Scosche goBAT II, dual USB battery backup and charger. The goBAT II pairs a 5000mAh rechargeable lithium ion …
This past month’s release of Intel’s Sandy Bridge platform will help build the USB 3.0 user base since this interface comes installed in most motherboards designed for this new CPU. Since USB 3.0 features transfer rates up to 4.8Gbps there will be a slew of new peripherals designed to take advantage of this speed. I …
Portable 3D Tvs? There’s two products actually here being announced, the first is the 800×400 portable 3D Tv, and then they have a USB style dongle so you can watch 3D Tv on your computer and then there’s a 7” mobile TV as well. The portable 3D Tv though requires no glasses! Michley Tivax …
Non CES news, Samsung has just announced USB 3.0 portable and desktop style hard drives with up to 1TB in capacity and even with 256bit full disk encryption. -Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced three new lines of consumer external hard …
Today for review I’ve got another product from our friends over at Geeks.com, this is one though that I was kind of excited about getting, sort of. I was more excited about getting it to stop arguments in my home, my kids fight all the time over things and anything to can stop that would …
One thing about most any smartphone is battery life, it’s short, someday they’ll figure out how to give us more than a days worth of run time on a single charge with a smartphone. If you’re a green type of person and need more power for your iPhone then you might want to look at …
Efo is at it again, they’ve got several model of this great little product now. I can say it’s a great product because I have one, I have the first one actually and I like it quite a bit. It’s RF wireless and it works great for basic input and navigation. This new version is …
External storage is a big business, look around and you’ll see all sorts of flash drives and portable hard drives for sale. People use them for everything from backups to transferring files to media uses and they all work well, but people want faster and that’s where the product I have for review today comes …
Cirago has decided to further join the USB 3.0 revolution with the introduction of their new CST6000 portable hard drive. It’s a 250gb 2.5” drive that runs on the USB 3.0 interface so it should achieve some decent speeds for all your transfer needs. Cirago even included a nice carrying case as well for added …
Nice, a 1.5TB 2.5” hard drive.. wow, I could put a lot of stuff on that. It’s a GoFelx drive actually so you can use several different types of connections with it. Shipping now in the United States and rolling out globally later this year, all 1.5TB GoFlex ultra-portable …
Today for review Seagate has sent me over one of their FreeAgent Go drives, specifically the 500gb version. I’ve taken a look at quite a few Seagate products in the past and I’ve always liked them, the same goes for the one I have today. The FreeAgent Go is small and portable and relatively fast, …
Apricorn has just launched a portable and handy USB DVD writer called the EZ Writer II. IT can record dual layer DVDs so you can burn quite a bit of data if you need to on the go. As a back-to-school special Apricorn is offering a $25 rebate on it bringing the cost down to …
It’s about time prices have dropped on USB 3.0 hardware surely. The new eGO portable hard drives feature hardware encryption and are built tough to withstand abuse like drops and anything else your average day can throw at them. USB 3.0 Transition Timeline for Iomega Portable Hard Drives Iomega plans to move …
So this is interesting, a portable DVD player with built-in Flo Tv. The DVD player is from Audiovox, model DFL 710, and it’s 7” in size with a 16:9 screen that allows you to watch DVDs and live TV via the Flo Tv service. I have to ask though what’s …
Seagate recently released the FreeAgent GoFlex series of products that put a unique spin on portable hard drives and how we can use them. The GoFlex series is meant to be, as the name suggests, flexible and they are in that the drive itself can be used with many types of interfaces by just …
Just like the title up there says, Seagate is now offering the FreeAgent Go portable hard drive with movies already on it. You can get the new Star trek for free, and there will be up to 20 more movies on the drive that users can purchase an unlock key for. Prices …
Arctic Cooling seems to be getting into much more than just cooling. They just launched a mobile USB charger with solar panel that will work with most any mobile type of device like cell phones, mp3 players and portable gaming systems. It comes with tips for Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia and Motorola …
Interesting name, wonder what it means? Anyway, Toshiba just announced these portable drives with the odd names in several sizes for 500gb up to 1TB with prices ranging from $120 to $200. They’re made to be a backup solution for your computers and they come with NTI BackupNow EZ software that is …
Now this is a secure hard drive.. Combination keypad built right in and 256bit AES hardware based encryption as well. I guess if you have use for something like this then this is the one you would choose huh? It’s 2.5” for factor and you can get regular mechanical HDD or SSDs …
I love my many monitors, I run four right now.. but this one here is one that I can certainly add to my wish list of things that I want or need… It’s a 13” monitor from a company called MEDL Tech, and it’s battery powered with a supposed life of 5 …
Is it me or is everything becoming specialized? Even hard drives now are being made for certain purposes, I mean it’s a hard drive, you put stuff on it right?! What makes it so different form any other one?! Apparently the folks over at Western Digital think a hard drive isn’t just …
Mac owners rejoice! You now get your very own passport! Yes the new WD Passport Studio is formatted for Macs. It comes in 320gb, 500gb and 640gb capacities and features hardware based 356bit encryption to keep your data nice and safe. Price ranges from $150 to $200 depending on capacity of course. …
Back in October of 2008 I took a look at the ScanSnap S300 Mobile Scanner and I found it to be a great little scanner that I still use on occasion, today though they’ve announced a new model to the ScanSnap line up, the S1300 which works on both Macs and PCs. …
I don’t know about you but I’m getting tired of the Michael Jackson themed products out there now. Yes I know he was a great artist and all but I think they might be going a bit overboard with it all.. Anyway, if you’re into MJ and you happen to need a new portable hard …
Last week I took a look at the Verbatim Clon Portable Hard drive, this week I’ve got another Verbatim portable HDD called the InSight. It’s a 500gb capacity drive that’s 2.5” in size, but what makes it special is the LCD display that shows the remaining capacity even when the InSight is powered off. …
Ah, the NAS box! I’ve got a thing for NAS boxes, that doesn’t sound right does it? Anyway, I like NAS boxes, I like them much more than external hard drives, they’re just so much more useful than an external hard drive really, everyone can access them and you can access them from anywhere in …
Today I’ve got a brief review for you of another product from Speck, it’s called the TwoZip and it’s made to be a case for carrying you 2.5” hard drive around, but it can be used for anything really. The TwoZip gets it’s name because it has two zippers on it for the two …
Today for review I’ve got the Vantec NexStar Universal Storage Adapter, it’s a long name but it can do quite a bit. This product will allow you to access both SATA and IDE 2.5” and 3.5” drives along with 5.25” SATA and IDE Optical drives and even 66 types of memory cards, so it does live up to it’s name or being a universal adapter.