
By Evan Ackerman
Infinitec is introducing what they’re activity the “next generation” of USB shine drives, the Infinite USB Memory (IUM) drive. Rather than storing accumulation on interior shine memory, the IUM pairs with your computer, forming a wireless accumulation designate link. So, some amount you block the IUM into sees it as eventual USB shine drive, patch behindhand the scenes the IUM is moving accumulation direct from your computer, making acquirable as much accumulation as you tending to remuneration it, thusly the “infinite” moniker. This isn’t some category of infinite darken hardware thing, however, it’s foregather that the noesis of the IUM isn’t limited by the element on the IUM itself.
I can’t directly amount discover how the wireless discernment works, but it’s feat to be digit of digit ways. The first, which seems most plausible from the artefact the IUM is described, is that it uses your laptop’s wireless bill to designate data. This effectuation that if you’re discover of arrange of your laptop’s wireless signal, your IUM loses its functionality. The determining (and I don’t conceive it entireness this way) would be that it someways connects to your laptop over the internet, which effectuation that the IUM would duty anywhere it could impart WiFi access, mayhap allowing you to ordered up secured inbound points free of time.
Whichever artefact it functions, I wouldn’t rattling conceive of this as a USB shine impart at all, for the eventual conceive that you can’t ingest it to backwards up or designate accumulation independently of your laptop. It’s more of a wireless USB meshwork adapter, in that it gives some USB harmonical amount inbound to the accumulation on your laptop via a topical (ad-hoc) wireless network. This is definitely a accessible capability, though its quality is limited to electronics with USB ports but without a meshwork conjugation that you don’t poverty to block your methodicalness into direct (although there is something to be said for assist of use, which the IUM trusty appears to offer).
The outlay for this john is $129, which seems kinda precipitous to me, though (for what it’s worth) it’s mostly equal to the Eye-Fi Pro, which offers the aforementioned category of wireless ad-hoc meshwork functionality.
The Infinitec IUM Drive goes on discernment July 1.
[ IUM Drive ] VIA [ ZDNet ]
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