Category
Buffalo Technology have upgraded their DriveStation Duo and DriveStation Quad external hard drives to USB 3.0 while bumping their capacities at the same time. This makes some serious storage available at high data transfer rates. The DriveStation Duo holds two drives that can be configured as a RAID 0, 1 or as a standard external drive. It's available in 2
Esbjorn Larsen and Jeffrey Powers interviewed Robert Haefling President & CEO of Icron of USB extensions. He talked about how normal USB 2 cable can only run up to 5 with the use of Icon technology they can be extended up to 500 meters over Cat5 and 10 kilometers over fiber. He also spoke about their partnership with Intersil a
Tom interviews Kyle from Horizon Fuel Cell Technology which is introducing the world's first consumer hydrogen fuel cell to the market. It's been a long time coming and I think we'll see more of these over the next few years. Marketed as a USB charger for portable electronics, the hydrogen-filled HydroStik plugs into the MiniPak (the fuel cell) and generates
Andy McCaskey invites Ian Collins of Clickfree into the booth to talk about ClickFree's automatic backup solution. I think all of us know that we're supposed to backup our hard drives and memory cards, but how many of us actually do it? Not many going by the number of times friends have phoned me up to see if I can
Jeff Ravencraft from the USB Implementers Forum discusses the deployment of USB hardware interface standards, including USB 3.0 as well as wireless USB. So-called "Superspeed" USB, or USB 3.0, can operate up to 10 times faster than current USB 2.0 connections. USB 3.0 ports can supply up to twice as much power as USB 2.0 ports, which is important for
Andy talks to Steve at D-Link's pre-press event and gets a rapid-fire look at the latest offerings from the company, including a wireless Powerline router, bundling three functions into a single device; a wireless media router that will take SD cards or USB3 external drives for delivering HD content to media streamers or players; a SmartBeam Wifi transmitter, a directional antenna that
Scott Friedman presents the WOWee One (www.woweeone.com), a portable speaker that when placed down on a flat surface uses that surface to create extra bass from what is a very small portable unit designed to be used with portable playback devices such as iPods and other MP3 players. Interview by Jeffry Powers of Geekazine and Esby Larsen of MrNetCast.com Please