Like the Aerielink Wireless Flash Combo we linked to a few weeks ago,
there's another second 802.11b wireless USB adapter for PCs that comes
with 128MB of Flash memory storage built-in (we'll admit to having a
soft spot these sorts of combo gadgets). The GN-WLBZ201 from Gigabyte
also comes in a Flash memory-less version, though that's considerably
less fun. Read...
Pod Secret encrypts data on iPod or thumb drive08/31/2004 02:28 AM Pariahware Inc. announced on Monday the release of Pod Secret 1.0, a
utility that encrypts files copied to an iPod or USB-based thumb
drive. Pod Secret requires Mac OS X v10.2 and costs US$29.95, with a
seven-day trial period included. Users who register before Sept. 30
receive a $10 discount.
IDE to USB 2.0 drive adapter
IDE to USB 2.0 drive adapter01/03/2005 07:18 PM It's not Firewire, but it's USB 2 and dirt cheap: PCMS IDE TO USB 2.0
drive adapter PC/MAC. The USB 2.0 IDE Adapter turns any IDE drive into
a convenient external drive. The adapter supports all existing
IDE/ATAPI devices such...
Adapter plugs SATA drive to parallel ATA connector
Adapter plugs SATA drive to parallel ATA connector06/11/2004 04:05 PM Diskology has released a
serial ATA (SATA)
adapter thatallows you to attach an SATA drive to a 40-pin
parallel ATA connector, suchas the one found on the company's Disk
Jockey, a portable device that allowsyou to quickly copy data between
two IDE drives or span two such disks. Withtwo of the adapters, you
can connect two SATA drives to each other. Pricingis US$39.95, and
it's available now.
Rio Fuse 128MB MP3 player11/07/2003 09:57 AM Reg Review Nice face, shame about the limited drag-and-drop
Top Tip: 128MB or 256MB graphics card?
Top Tip: 128MB or 256MB graphics card?08/17/2004 02:14 AM My question is this: You can get the 9800 Pro with 128mb or with
256mb. Does any game actually use 256mb and is it necessary to pay the
extra to have the extra memory?
Virgin intros half-ounce 128MB MP3 player07/19/2004 04:28 PM Virgin Electronics announced on Monday the release of a diminutive,
silver dollar-sized MP3 player that
holds 128MB of music. The US$99.99 device is just under two inches
in diameter and slightly less than half an inch deep; including its
rechargeable battery, it weighs right around half an ounce. It
connects to your Mac via an included USB 1.1 cable that recharges the
battery, and it also comes with an armband, a pair of earphones and a
neck chain. Virgin notes that it also doubles as a file storage device
and warns that it can't play music downloaded from the iTunes Music
Store. The company's Web site does not state the minimum version of
Mac OS X required.
Free open WiFi on Tacoma-Washington train, courtesy WiFi hacker
Free open WiFi on Tacoma-Washington train, courtesy WiFi hacker03/24/2005 08:15 PM Cory Doctorow:
A Seattle wireless hacker rides a commuter train from Tacoma every day
with a battery-powered WiFi hotspot in his backpack that's linked up
to the Internet with a 14.4 144k wireless modem. Catch his
train and get free WiFi on your commute.
The open wireless node can be found in the first car of the last
morning train and in Car 403 on the 5:10pm return trip. Use SSID
"FreeInternetAccess" or "seattlewireless" to connect - You may have to
assign yourself an IP in the range 192.168.0.0/24 and use the Default
Gateway 192.168.0.1 as the DHCP is sometimes flakey
For now, you can file the 'Blackberry Thumb' issue
along side the folder where you would have kept your worries about
cellphone radiation, had you not forgotten them since that tumor
pressed too firmly into your hippocampus. Sure, dinking around on
thumbboards probably isn't exactly the optimal use of your opposable
digits, but it's likely no worse than the dreaded "Nintendo Thumb"
that struck down a whole generation of good typists, who now are
cursed with occasional involuntary run-ons of 'ABABSELECTSTART.' Until
this doctor in the UK can actually point to a documented case of
someone suffering from tendentious, I think I'll keep promoting the
thumbboard as one of the best mobile input devices we have
ABABSELECTSTART available. (Thanks, Aaron!)
Microsoft under your thumb09/08/2004 08:54 AM New keyboard and mouse from the company's hardware division include
fingerprint readers.
Let's kill all the thumb drives
Let's kill all the thumb drives06/24/2004 10:00 AM Don't blame the technology. A
refreshingly reasonable piece from a mainstream newspaper breaking
down people's fear of technology as a springboard for outright
condemnation of that technology when it's used for bad things.
Thumb Drives That Purrrrr07/06/2004 01:55 AM It is not that surprising to see Thumb Drives made into everything
from animals to jewelery these days. However, one Taiwanese firm took
it to a new level of weird with the 256MB Cat Bar. While at first you
might be expecting a feline version of Cheers, in actuality it is a
thumb drive for cat lovers. To top it all off, it meows when you plug
it in! Now if I could get one that looks like Bender the robot from
Futurama… ;o)
Replacing The Mouse With Thumb Control04/20/2004 02:00 PM
MIT's Tech Review has a short article about a new type of mouse replacement that sounds like a fairly
intelligent input device that takes out much of the carpal tunnel risk
by recognizing that simple thumb movements can easily designate where
you want the cursor to move. So, the device is basically a
one-handed, baseless joystick with a flat top where simple thumb
movement designate where to move on the screen without much exertion
or muscle strain. The side of the device contains typical mouse
buttons. Combined with the Twiddler
one-handed keyboard, and you could have quite the ergonomic solution
to computer input, while also allowing for mobility with wearable type
computers. Of course, as with any such devices, if the learning curve
seems to be too much, it will never catch on. That may be the case
with the one-handed keyboard, but the mouse replacement might not be
such a big stretch.
Iverson Has Broken Thumb, but Will Play (AP)
Iverson Has Broken Thumb, but Will Play (AP)08/17/2004 11:46 AM AP - Allen Iverson has a broken right thumb but planned to play anyway
Tuesday night against Greece, hoping the U.S. Olympic basketball team
can bounce back from an embarrassing loss to Puerto Rico in its
opener.
Microsoft's New Smart Phone Interface: Your Thumb04/07/2005 05:24 PM Microsoft Research scientists, in cooperation with University of
Maryland researchers, have designed two interfaces to support easier
use of PDAs and cellphones.
The interfaces allow users to operate the devices using a thumb on one
hand. The interfaces target screens from 2 to 5 inches, measured
diagonally, with resolutions ranging from 176 x 220 to 800 x 600
pixels.
Review: WiFi Seeker / WiFi Spy07/16/2004 04:50 PM A few weeks ago I got Chrisalis Developemnt's WiFi Seeker, a convenient
keychain-sized wireless network locator. Marware's recently announced
WiFi Spy is a
rebranded version of the same device, so it should perform
identically.
To locate a wireless network simply press the button and watch the
LEDs. When the lights stop sweeping back and forth, the number that
remain lit will show the strength of the wireless signal. If the
lights continue to sweep back and forth, you're not in range for any
wireless network. Unlike other devices, the WiFi Seeker isn't fooled
by other 2.5 GHz signals like microwave ovens or cordless phones, and
it doesn't depend on 802.11 client activity to detect the access
point. It detects both 802.11b and 802.11g.
P900 successor with a tiny, frustrating thumb-keyboard
P900 successor with a tiny, frustrating thumb-keyboard05/04/2004 09:19 AM
Apparently, this is a leaked pic of the successor to the Sony Ericsson
P900 (the phone I plan on getting as soon as my first bank-statement
appears and I use it to authenticate myself to the dumbass phone
company that thinks bank-statements are better ID than Canadian
passports). Call it the P901, or the P1000, whatever: it's got a wee
keyboard on the flip-down for those who prefer thumbing out their
executive haiku to scratching at a recalcitrant
handwriting-recognition system. It looks like it might be a photoshop
job, but Rojas at Engadget says that MobileBurn, the source, is
reliable, and I'll take his word for it.
Link
(via Engadget)
Microsoft researchers thumb noses at digit's limits
Woman Served Salad with Human Thumb Garnish (Reuters)
Woman Served Salad with Human Thumb Garnish (Reuters)03/06/2004 02:00 AM Reuters - An Ohio woman was served a salad
containing part of a restaurant worker's thumb sliced off while
chopping lettuce, a health official said on Friday.
Oregon green thumb grows grass in Iraq, sparking online debate
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]
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Kanguru offers 4GB flash drive
Kanguru offers 4GB flash drive05/26/2004 01:43 PM Kanguru Solutions on Wednesday announced a new 4GB model of their KanguruMicro Drive
2.0. It's a USB 2.0-equipped flash drive that measures 3 inches
long. It sports 4GB of data storage capability. Compatible with Macs,
PCs and Linux devices, the new KanguruMicro Drive 2.0 is equipped with
128-bit data encryption as well. The new 4GB model costs US$1,699.95.
Other capacities ranging from 32MB to 2GB are available as well.
Kanguru ships FireWire flash drive09/09/2004 12:31 PM Millis, Mass.-based storage peripheral maker Kanguru Solutions on
Thursday announced that it is shipping its previously announced
FireWire-based Fire
Flash drive, a portable flash media drive that uses a six-pin
FireWire interface to transfer data to and from a host Mac or PC. The
device measures three inches long and is available in capacities
ranging from 128MB to 1GB, with prices ranging from US$69.95 to
$279.95 depending on capacity. The Fire Flash comes with a four-pin
adapter for computers that need it, and a desktop docking station.
Kanguru intros flash-based USB 2.0 Mini Drive
Kanguru intros flash-based USB 2.0 Mini Drive12/28/2004 05:19 PM Kanguru Solutions on Tuesday announced that it's now shipping the
Kanguru Mini Drive, a flash-based USB 2.0 device that the company says
is almost 25 percent smaller than its Micro Drive. Less than three
inches long, the Mini Drive is available in four storage capacities:
128MB (US$29.95), 256MB ($39.95), 512MB ($69.95) and 1GB ($119.95). A
product page was not available on the Kanguru Web site as MacCentral
posted this article, but a company representative said that it will be
up later in the week.
Kanguru to ship FireWire Flash drive in late Aug.
Kanguru to ship FireWire Flash drive in late Aug.08/02/2004 01:54 PM Kanguru Solutions has announced that it will ship its new Kanguru Fire Flash, a
three-inch FireWire Flash drive, in late August. The Kanguru Fire
Flash uses a 6-pin connection and transfers data at 400MB per second.
It will be available in capacities ranging from 128MB to 1GB, with
prices starting at US$69.95 and running up to $299.95, and will ship
with a 4-pin adapter for use with PCs, a neck strap and a FireWire
extender cable.
Driver dies in seaside car fire
Driver dies in seaside car fire12/26/2004 08:32 AM Police in north Wales appeal for witnesses after a vehicle collides
with promenade railings and catches fire.
Taxi driver in fire bomb ordeal
Taxi driver in fire bomb ordeal01/02/2005 02:00 PM The Continuity IRA claims responsibility for forcing a taxi driver to
drive a fire bomb to a police station.
Kanguru unveils combo MP3 player, recorder05/04/2004 05:05 PM Kanguru Solutions introduced the new KanguruMicro MP3
Pro on Tuesday. The device combines a MP3/WMA player, digital
voice recorder and USB 1.1 Flash Drive in one unit. It measures three
inches long and runs off one AAA battery, which is included along with
a pair of mini headphones, a five-mode equalizer and a backlit LCD
display. It comes in 64MB, 128MB and 256MB capacities for US$74.95,
$99.95 and $129.95, respectively. A 512MB model is listed as "Coming
Soon" on the Kanguru Web site; no price was listed. The KanguruMicro
MP3 Pro is compatible with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.
iPod Voice Recorders: Griffin iTalk Takes The Lead In Sound-Quality Race With Belkin Voice Recorder
USB keychain with cam and voice-corder06/22/2004 10:33 AM
The LipStick 5in1 is a USB keychain drive with a built-in voice
recorder and a digital camera that can also serve as a webcam.
Link
(via Gizmodo)
Kanguru redesigns QuickSilver hard drive
Kanguru redesigns QuickSilver hard drive02/05/2005 09:19 PM Kanguru Solutions on Thursday announced a redesigned QuickSilver
External Hard Drive. Available with USB 2.0-only and Firewire 400/USB
2.0 combination interfaces, the QuickSilver now sports a new alloy
casing that better dissipates heat during prolonged use, and can be
stacked horizontally or stood vertically. An LED glows blue when the
drive is operating. Kanguru's QuickSilver line features 7200RPM drives
and is available in capacities ranging from 80GB to 400GB.
USB Keychain Drive with Biometrics03/06/2004 02:09 AM This is pretty interesting. A co-worker just pointed out the
ClipDrive Bio series of USB "drives." It claims to be: ClipDrive Bio
is the most secure and advanced USB 2.0 & USB 1.1 data storage
device on the market. Using leading edge biometric fingerprint
technology, the scanner authenticates a user's identity & then
gives the user access to the hidden secure partition on the ClipDrive
Bio. All data saved on the Secure Partition portion of the ClipDrive
Bio is...
News: Kanguru offers 20GB Zipper Pro portable drive
News: Kanguru offers 20GB Zipper Pro portable drive04/12/2005 11:55 AM Kanguru Solutions has introduced its 20GB Kanguru Zipper Pro, a
portable hard disk drive that uses USB 2.0 and is compatible with Macs
and PCs. The US$199.95 drive measures 2.4 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches, weighs
40 grams and offers a "swivel plug" that gets the USB 2.0 interface
out of the way when it's not in use. The 20GB mechanism operates at
4200 RPM and doesn't require an external power supply if used with a
powered USB port. The device ships with a cable, neckstrap and
documentation.
EZQuest offers USB 2.0 keychain drive
EZQuest offers USB 2.0 keychain drive05/10/2004 07:16 AM Hard drive-maker EZQuest on Monday announced the release of the EZ-Disk
USB 2.0 flash drive. The drive, which is backward compatible with
USB 1.1, can copy files at speeds up to 950KB/sec, according to the
company. The EZ-Disk drives will be available in 128MB, 256MB and
512MB capacities and will retail for $49, $79 and $149, respectively.
The drives are comapatible with Mac OS 9, Mac OS 10.1 or later, and
various flavors of Windows.
Seagate Tries to Block Import of Cornice Hard Drive Devices
Last week, both
Seagate and Western Digital sued hard drive newcomer Cornice in
separate patent-infringement lawsuits. So besides that welcome wagon,
Seagate has now asked the US International Trade Commission to ban the
importation of any device that uses one of Cornice's 1-inch hard
drives, which brings me to why you care. If the USITC goes for it, MP3
players from Aiwa, iRiver, Element, Agere, Rio, and RCA -- and that's
just the short list -- could be illegal to import under the
injunction. That takes the lawsuit from boring, insider sniping to
slightly-less-boring and irritating, and well, I thought you should
know.
Also, it must be frustrating for a new company, without years of
links to cloud the Google waters, to return as the search results of
its name two links to its website and a third to a news story about a
lawsuit against them.
Read - Seagate targets rival with import ban demand
[ElRegistor]
Good morning,
sunshines. If we were rising from our beds, blearily walking into the
kitchen in search of coffee, I would make you oatmeal in this Sunbeam
Microwave while listening to its in-built FM radio; perhaps a song
about the hope of a new day. Then, after I had gone to work (in the
next room), you could listen to the messages I had left for you on the
microwave's integrated voice recorder. Messages like, "I have removed
the shielding from this oven. The uneasy feeling you feel inside is
the pinging and popping of your boiling liver. Also, this instrument
of your utter destruction was a relative value at $90." (Thanks,
Dennis!) Read [Wal-Mart]
Griffin's digital voice recorder for the iPod
Griffin's digital voice recorder for the iPod01/06/2004 02:07 AM Today's the big day we find out whether the rumors about those
miniPods are true (we'll post up the news as soon as we get...
Griffin ships iTalk iPod voice recorder
Griffin ships iTalk iPod voice recorder04/23/2004 08:10 AM Griffin Technology Inc. announced Friday that it is shipping iTalk,
its voice recorder intended for third-generation iPods. the iTalk
snaps on to the top of the iPod; it also features a speaker, headphone
connector and a receptacle for an external microphone.
driver 806/17/2005 04:28 PM As an actor and writer, husband and father, I have two
often-conflicting monkeys on my back: Monkey number one is...
Gigabyte's USB WiFi adapter + 128MB thumb drive
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For now, you can file the 'Blackberry Thumb' issue
along side the folder where you would have kept your worries about
cellphone radiation, had you not forgotten them since that tumor
pressed too firmly into your hippocampus. Sure, dinking around on
thumbboards probably isn't exactly the optimal use of your opposable
digits, but it's likely no worse than the dreaded "Nintendo Thumb"
that struck down a whole generation of good typists, who now are
cursed with occasional involuntary run-ons of 'ABABSELECTSTART.' Until
this doctor in the UK can actually point to a documented case of
someone suffering from tendentious, I think I'll keep promoting the
thumbboard as one of the best mobile input devices we have
ABABSELECTSTART available. (Thanks, Aaron!)
Here's a more realistic version of a thumb-shaped thumbdrive, which
Cory 
Apparently, this is a leaked pic of the successor to the Sony Ericsson
P900 (the phone I plan on getting as soon as my first bank-statement
appears and I use it to authenticate myself to the dumbass phone
company that thinks bank-statements are better ID than Canadian
passports). Call it the P901, or the P1000, whatever: it's got a wee
keyboard on the flip-down for those who prefer thumbing out their
executive haiku to scratching at a recalcitrant
handwriting-recognition system. It looks like it might be a photoshop
job, but Rojas at Engadget says that MobileBurn, the source, is
reliable, and I'll take his word for it.
The LipStick 5in1 is a USB keychain drive with a built-in voice
recorder and a digital camera that can also serve as a webcam.
