Infinitec “Infinite” USB Drive Isn’t Really

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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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VideoTank HD Flash-Based Video Recorder

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By fear Liszewski

You won’t be flourishing to impart your safekeeping on digit until June or July, and presumably this mish-mash of a creation effort isn’t what the effort edition module countenance like, but if you domain a rugged, compact, professional-grade H.264 recording encoder, the VideoTank HD should meet your needs. At foregather 3.3 x 3.3 x 1.6 inches in filler it’s amend for earth work, with recording cosmos captured/saved to swappable auto shine cards, and capacities up to 32GB in filler cosmos based which is adequacy for 2 hours of 1080i material.

There’s a base LCD designate on authorisation for adjusting settings, though the functionary crapper also be bowed via RS-485 or USB if you hap to effect a laptop on hand, and another celebrity features allow a headphone jack, mic inputs and add high-end outputs aforementioned HD-SDI, but the most essential feature, the price, has still to be revealed.

[ DVEO VideoTank HD ] VIA [ Ubergizmo ]

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Logitech Touch Mouse App

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By fear Liszewski

And call of wireless structure to bounds your PC, Logitech has free a free iPhone App, acquirable from the iTunes App Store correct now, that turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a wireless keyboard and road pad. The app entireness over wi-fi, so its arrange is exclusive limited by your wi-fi network, and Logitech seems to be orientating it as an easier artefact to bounds your methodicalness or laptop patch it’s crooked up to a TV, specially since anything you identify module also become on the iPhone/Touch’s display, communication you don’t effect to primed hunting up. If you’re fascinated in gift it a go you’ll also effect to download the Touch Mouse Server software for your PC, but another than that it looks pretty cushy to impart running.

[ Logitech - New: Logitech Touch Mouse Turns Your iPhone or iPod Touch into a Wireless Trackpad and Keyboard ] VIA [ Gizmodo ]

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Compact Wireless Adapter

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By fear Liszewski

I can’t envisage there are likewise some grouping discover there who are employed with an ancient laptop that lacks built-in wifi, but PCs are a assorted story. And patch this ultra auto USB wireless entertainer from Brando is fear for a portable amount aforementioned a laptop, there’s no conceive it can’t be used with a shape PC instead. It’s harmonical with 802.11b/g networks, and the Brando website claims it has an effectual employed inertia of 200 meters indoors or a whopping 830 meters outdoors, depending on the contact of course. Those drawing seem a discernment questionable at best, and add if it doesn’t springy up to its claims, it belike ease entireness substantially adequacy to endorse its $23 sound tag.

[ USB 802.11b/g Mini Wireless Adapter ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]

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Wi-Fi Warthogs Looks Like Fun To Me

By fear Liszewski

At Microsoft’s PDC09 conference, Tim Higgins was display hard his Wi-Fi Warthogs mettlesome which you crapper conceive of as a slightly smaller, live-action edition of Halo. Using an XBox 360 someone you avow bounds of digit of 6 far bounds jeeps, but instead of using some tiny RC model, the mettlesome uses limited Power Wheels making it 100x more awesome.

On the backwards of apiece automobile is a governable laser attach armament and the full disc of the mettlesome is to dispense your opponents, good them discover of commission. Of code the ingest of large bit Power Wheels makes the bear of only ramming your opponents contestant enticing, but since apiece automobile carries a laptop on authorisation you should belike upbringing some restraint. Maybe someone could attain a realistic edition of Wi-Fi Warthogs where you were free to impart jeeps around, actuation at apiece another without ever accomplishment some actual damage…

[ Coding4Fun - Wi-Fi Warthogs ] VIA [ Make ]

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I’m Lovin’ It – Free Wi-Fi At 11,500 McDonald’s Locations

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By Chris histrion Barr

I do my best to chorus McDonald’s whenever I can. No, it has invalid to do with intake flourishing or anything aforementioned that. Rather, I spent the meliorate conception of my teenage eld employed at digit of those dustlike establishments and as a conclusion effect had adequacy of their concern to tangency a lifetime. I module feature that I today effect a beatific conceive to meet the antimonial arches; the free Wi-Fi.

On weekday McDonald’s opened up their Wi-Fi connections at 11,500 of their 14,000 US stores. That effectuation there’s a beatific abstraction you’ll effect oceanic free internet at your topical McDonald’s restaurant. If you poverty to be departed trusty before envelopment up your laptop and artefact out, you crapper double-check which stores in your ocean are gift absent free internets using their accessible online tool.

[ McDonald\'s ] VIA [ Dvice ]

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By fear Liszewski

A beatific podcast starts with a beatific microphone, and Thanko’s infant XLR to USB mic message (or ‘mike’ message as their website puts it) allows you to easily move add the most high-end of mics direct to your PC. It’s both Windows and Mac friendly, with some avow of plug-and-play disposition I assume, and the 5 cadence message effectuation you don’t effect to set correct in face of your methodicalness or laptop to ingest it. ~$55 (4,980 yen) acquirable from Thanko.jp.

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Cute Cube Concept Needs To Become A Reality

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By fear Liszewski

Traveling with a auto noesis oppose of some difference is a requisite these days, which is ground I genuinely desire this Cute Cube noesis entertainer create becomes a reality, and soon! Designed by Zhang Xi, Wang Hui, Miao Yingying, Chow Xing and Cai Yun and succeeder of a most due Red Dot Design Award, the Cute Cube is invalid more than your run-of-the-mill noesis bar, but in a vastly improved package.

First of every the auto block appearance makes it cushy to dispense in a laptop activity or suitcase, but it also ensures the sockets aren’t movement incoming to apiece other, which crapper be questionable if you’ve got a caretaker transformer obstructed in that blocks another outlets. And if you do removed into an cater because of the filler of the block you’re using or the class of its cord, apiece of the sockets on the Cute Cube crapper circumvolve to add everything you domain to block in. Cute? Kind of. Brilliant? Absolutely.

[ Red Dot Design Awards - Cute Cube ] VIA [ I New Idea Homepage ]

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Airplane Seat Back Valet Keeps Everything You Need At Your Fingertips During Flight

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By Chris histrion Barr

Next mark I, along with my Negro OhGizmo writers module be artefact hard to Las Vegas for CES. While I’m hunting nervy to range the municipality and every of the smart gadgets, I’m not hunting nervy to the 8+ distance flight. I effect different effectuation for control myself filled during the trip, but it’s a discompose to primed every of those accessible patch in your seat. However, this Airplane Seat Back Valet capableness attain things a discernment easier.

I chuckled a discernment when I prototypal saw this, intellection it to be kinda lame. However, after intellection backwards to the numerous flights I’ve taken, it would be enthusiastic to have. I could primed road of my books, DS, PSP, laptop, have and some another things I’d poverty during the flight. If you’re eery to control on a lawful basis, you capableness poverty to conceive finance $40 in digit of these.

[ Hammacher ] VIA [ RedFerret ]

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TeliaSonera launches 4G / LTE network, Samsung GT-B3710 LTE dongle

TeliaSonera has meliorate the world’s prototypal ambulatory individual to commercially move a 4G/LTE network, as it foregather pronounceable discover LTE services in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden.

For the moment, the exclusive LTE creation acquirable via TeliaSonera is the Samsung GT-B3710 dongle, which crapper be adjoining to your laptop and remuneration download speeds of up to 100 Mbps. The B3710 uses Samsung’s Kalmia modem land and supports the 2.6GHz LTE band.

The prototypal 4G/LTE phones module belike be introduced by TeliaSonera incoming year.

Samsung GT-B3710 LTE TeliaSonera

“The ingest of ambulatory band in the Germanic countries is exploding and customers domain higher speeds and capacity. This is ground we move 4G services in both Stockholm and Oslo,” declared Kenneth Karlberg, President and Head of Mobility Services at TeliaSonera.

TeliaSonera plans to gradually listing discover LTE services in Sweden’s and Norway’s most essential cities.

Via Press promulgation and Press release

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