The Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 is 40GB external
hard drive that is clunky, cheap-looking, has a crappy text-only
integrated screen, plays MP3s, but not WMA, AAC, or OGG Vorbis, and
can only read from one card from its card reader at a time. So why
would any photographer want it? Because it's cheap, it does the
primary job it was designed to do (act as remote backup for memory
cards), and can accept as many additional 2.5-inch laptop hard drives
as you want to swap into it, meaning that all other things aside, you
can purchase this single $335 drive and continue to upgrade it for
only the price of additional hard drives. Read -
Hard disk: X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 [BIOS]
Console Drive makes hard drive removable or external
Console Drive makes hard drive removable or external06/04/2004 03:52 PM Addonics Technologies announced on Friday the release of its
Console Drive, which turns a standard 3.5-inch hard drive into
either aremovable internal hard drive cartridge or an external hard
drive thatconnects to your Mac via USB 2.0 or 1.1, FireWire, SCSI or a
PCMCIA slot,depending on the model you choose. Internally, the Console
Drive can connectto a Power Mac's Serial ATA slot. In addition, the
Console Drive acceptsAddonics' series of Pocket CD, DVD, CD-RW and
DVD+/-R/RW drives, all ofwhich are Mac compatible.
MCE slot-loading drive replaces original iMac drive
MCE slot-loading drive replaces original iMac drive06/14/2004 02:50 PM MCE Technologies is now offering an internal 24x slot-loading CD-R/RW
drive for replacing the tray-loading CD-ROM drive in the original iMac
(233, 266, and 333MHz, Rev...
Designs
Designs12/22/2003 01:54 PM Starting from what we've learned to date about human cognition, I just
want to construct the world's easiest-to-use web browser interface
ever designed for online personal management tools and lead the HCI
community in terms of usability, feature sets, and...
What's Next for PC Designs? (PC World)
What's Next for PC Designs? (PC World)06/03/2004 02:02 PM PC World - The distinction between computing devices and consumer
electronics continues to blur.
HP Designs Transistor Replacement02/01/2005 08:56 PM Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Tuesday its researchers have proven that a
technology they invented could eventually replace the transistor, a
fundamental building block of computers.
Big Brother's designs on ratings
Big Brother's designs on ratings05/22/2004 06:47 PM A compact and uncomfortable fourth Big Brother house is revealed as
the producers attempt to boost ratings.
Evolved antenna designs06/28/2004 11:35 AM This antenna (and may others on the linked page) was evolved by NASA
using a genetic algorithm. While highly effective, its design is
counter-intuitive.
First, there is the potential of needing less power. Antenna ST5-3-10
achieves high gain (2-4dB) across a wider range of elevation angles.
This allows a broader range of angles over which maximum data
throughput can be achieved. Also, less power from the solar array and
batteries may be required.
Second, the evolved antenna does not require a matching network nor a
phasing circuit, removing two steps in design and fabrication of the
antenna. A trivial transmission line may be used for the match on the
flight antenna, but simulation results suggest that one is not
required.
Third, the evolved antenna has more uniform coverage in that it has a
uniform pattern with small ripples in the elevations of greatest
interest (between 40 and 80 degrees). This allows for reliable
performance as elevation angle relative to the ground changes.
More miniPod concept designs01/05/2004 01:30 PM Speaking of the miniPod, iPodLounge has a roundup of links to various
concept designs of the rumored miniPod that is due out next week.
None...
HP Designs Removable HD For Media PCs
HP Designs Removable HD For Media PCs06/19/2004 08:48 AM On Monday, Hewlett-Packard will introduce a "Media Drive", an external
hard drive that can be easily inserted and removed from an HP computer
to provide additional storage.
Mirkwood Designs - Templates
Mirkwood Designs - Templates01/22/2004 07:16 AM Templates that you can use to make custom cards, envelopes, and boxes
.. Paper box
templates
ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/templates.htm track this
site | 6 links
Microsoft, HP Unveil New PC Designs05/04/2004 03:52 AM Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft Corp. will use a Windows hardware
conference in Seattle this week to unveil updated concepts of consumer
and business PCs, dubbed "Troy" and "Hermes," plus a glimpse into the
future of the Media PC.
Wow. Ouch. So there we go. I've redesigned the site and I'm
struggling to get it all up and working properly as soon as I possibly
can, but there are scratchy bits and clunky bits and I swear to got
that I'm getting to those bits in a minute. This redesign has been a
long time coming - and like so many of my personal bits of work, was
actually accomplished only because I suddenly developed enough
momentum on a Sunday afternoon to get it to a nearly thought-through
stage before something else got in the way. So it has all of the
features of things that come together in that way - I think it's
pretty inspired (for something I'd do), while simultaneously it's full
of rough bits that haven't been polished out of existence yet.
I've been trying to think around my aesthetic and my reasons for
going in this direction, but to be honest it's a whole mix of things
coming together at one point in time. There's a bit of my general
frustration with people doing things that seem to me to be working in
opposition to the media, there's a dash of my desire to keep refining
an artificial/manufactured aesthetic for plasticbag.org and there's a
large stinking block of trying to strip away all the guff that has
accumulated around my site over the last few years.
Weirdly, I think I'm also secretly hoping that by going so stark
that people find the site intimidating and unfriendly. I've written
before about how hard I find it to write when everyone's watching.
That feeling got a little worse than normal after the whole wonderful
Bloggies win. Maybe
subconsciously this is an attempt to try and keep a very particular
crowd around here while alienating everyone else. Maybe it's not so
subconscious. Dunno. I guess we'll see how people respond to it over
the next few days / weeks / years.
Anyway, in the meantime, I'll endeavour to get as much as possible
(if not everything) fixed that appears currently to be broken in the
next couple of hours, and maybe tomorrow I'll try and give you guys a
tour through some of my thinking. First redesign in a very very long
time... Quite exciting...
TikiMac Unveils "Big Tiki Drive", the World's First Hi-Speed USB Flash Drive in the Form of a Grinning, Glowing Tiki Idol
Seems CES does not consider Endgadget a weblog so they have full
access to CES and have lot's of really good CES news. Check out their
review of the new Hard Drives announced by Hitachi. [Endgadget]<
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New Iran nuclear designs 'found'02/12/2004 10:00 AM United Nations inspectors have found a new type of centrifuge design
in Iran, officials say.
Designs on the White House -- update
Designs on the White House -- update07/02/2004 01:11 PM
Following up on
this previous BoingBoing post, reader ME-L says, "The contest is over and the winners are on sale! Net
proceeds go to the Kerry campaign. Winning shirts include: "I Was The
Victim of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and All I Got Was This Lousy
President," "Democracy is Not a Faith-Based Initiative" and "One
Nation Under Surveillance." Link
U.S. Mint to Unveil New Nickel Designs (AP)
U.S. Mint to Unveil New Nickel Designs (AP)09/16/2004 01:11 AM AP - There's change in store for Thomas Jefferson — on the nickel
that is. He's getting his first makeover since his likeness was put on
the coin in 1938.
ECC Technologies Licenses Designs to NASA
ECC Technologies Licenses Designs to NASA07/05/2004 02:35 AM ECC Technologies, Inc., a pioneer in developing and licensing
advanced, ultra-high-performance, parallel Reed-Solomon (PRS)
error-correcting (ECC) encoder and decoder designs, today announced
that it has licensed PRS ECC designs to NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center (NASA Goddard) in Greenbelt, Maryland. [PRWEB Jul 5, 2004]
Casemods from classic industrial designs07/11/2004 01:34 PM
"Bootleg Objects" is a casemod project that starts with design
classics like this 1973 Bang & Olafsen tape-deck, Technics
turntables, etc, and builds PCs and displays into them ("In the series
of the Bootleg Objects, the BO.02 is a representative of the era of
the music cassette. However, the cassette slot now houses a smart card
reader. Further, a DVD-drive is hidden behind a previously unused
groove in the front panel, and a 16:9 TFT display has joined the
object on the sly. The legendary slider control formerly used to
control the radio tuning now becomes both a display and controller for
a whole slew of functions. Consequently, instead of 'tuning' the label
now reads 'anything'.")
Link
(Thanks, Dan!)
Belkin Designs PC-Less Video Extender
Belkin Designs PC-Less Video Extender09/14/2004 06:48 PM Belkin on Tuesday announced a wireless remote technology that would
beam live video to a remote monitor.
Microsoft Designs Your Digital World
Microsoft Designs Your Digital World12/08/2003 11:36 AM Microsoft's "seamless computing" vision is about making software and
devices work in sync with consumers' lives, John O'Rourke, consumer
strategy director at Microsoft, says. Electronics stores have aisle
after aisle of new technology gadgets coming to market every day.
Think media players, PDAs, smart phones, smart watches, and Windows
Media Center PCs. Microsoft's software is in a large number of those
products, all of which are part of what O'Rourke calls the "digital
lifestyle."
First, there is the potential of needing less power. Antenna ST5-3-10
achieves high gain (2-4dB) across a wider range of elevation angles.
This allows a broader range of angles over which maximum data
throughput can be achieved. Also, less power from the solar array and
batteries may be required.
Following up on 
"Bootleg Objects" is a casemod project that starts with design
classics like this 1973 Bang & Olafsen tape-deck, Technics
turntables, etc, and builds PCs and displays into them ("In the series
of the Bootleg Objects, the BO.02 is a representative of the era of
the music cassette. However, the cassette slot now houses a smart card
reader. Further, a DVD-drive is hidden behind a previously unused
groove in the front panel, and a 16:9 TFT display has joined the
object on the sly. The legendary slider control formerly used to
control the radio tuning now becomes both a display and controller for
a whole slew of functions. Consequently, instead of 'tuning' the label
now reads 'anything'.")