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Getting all tangled up in wires when playing games or making a call on Skype is not our idea of fun. Bluetooth headsets can help, but they have an annoying lag that gamers and phone talkers won’t tolerate. That’s...
POSTED Friday, May 9, 2008
There's certainly no shortage of odd, annoying, beautiful and unusual places to store books, but we’re betting you never thought a bookshelf could also function as a internet-connected, live-updated display. Prepare for enlightenment, because WaSnake has four panels on...
POSTED Thursday, May 8, 2008
If you love precious metals in your computer peripherals, you'll love SteelSeries 7G keyboard, designed specifically for PC gaming. Belying the company's name just a bit, the 7G has 18-karat gold plating in every key switch to reduce latency,...
POSTED Monday, May 5, 2008
In a study just published by Britain's Which? Computing magazine, alarming levels of dangerous bacteria and other gross-out biological matter was found on many computer keyboards. A microbiologist examined and measured bacteria levels on 33 keyboards in an office,...
POSTED Saturday, May 3, 2008
You know, technology and gadgets don't have to be so cold and impersonal. Even good design usually involves a lot of plastic and curves and smooth surfaces; where's the warmth? The softness? When was the last time you felt like...
POSTED Friday, May 2, 2008
If you have to copy some data to a whole batch of USB flash drives, you've got a tedious day of work ahead of you. Copy, paste, eject, repeat. Over and over again until the job is done. Doesn't sound...
POSTED Tuesday, April 29, 2008
If you're the type of person who has no qualms with pirating all the music and movies you can get your hands on, you'll be really excited to hear about the Planex DigiJuke NAS. It's pretty much designed with the...
POSTED Monday, April 28, 2008
One thing most Westerners still find it hard to get used to when visiting Japan is the widespread use of surgical masks by pedestrians. Whether chasing away a cold or avoiding spring hay fever, Japanese citizens think nothing of accessorizing...
POSTED Thursday, April 24, 2008
Who knew what was going on inside inkjet printers? Yikes. A lot of that ink, which costs three times more per milliliter than a $350 bottle of the finest Cristal champagne, is seeping into a gummy well of useless...
POSTED Friday, April 18, 2008
Here's an idea for a USB drive you're not likely to see very often: one disguised as a torn cable. The twisted minds over at Evil Mad Scientist have hidden a tiny KingMax USB flash drive inside the end...
POSTED Wednesday, April 16, 2008
I find the most interesting designs to be those that take mundane objects that are designed with utilitarian impulses and make them aesthetically pleasing. Take this WirePod, for example. Essentially, it's a fancy surge protector, but it looks so cool....
POSTED Wednesday, April 16, 2008
We’re not big fans of printing anything — trying to keep everything digital and virtual — but if we were, we’d use a tiny mobile printer like this Canon Pixma iP100. Set up for true power-printin’ road warriors, it...
POSTED Monday, April 14, 2008
Good news! IBM scientists have been hard at work on a new type of memory that holds 100 times more data than the memory we're dealing with today. Dubbed "Racetrack" by the eggheads at IBM, this new memory has no...
POSTED Friday, April 11, 2008
If you’re a Second Life player, you know how cumbersome the keyboard and mouse feel when you’re trying to move around that virtual world, interact with others and construct stuff. Second Life creator chairman and designer of groundbreaking spreadsheet software...
POSTED Friday, April 11, 2008
We’ve tested all of Saitek’s backlit keyboards, and laud their excellent touch response and attractive, helpful illumination. Now the company’s outdone itself with the Saitek PK17U Cyborg Gaming Keyboard. This baby reaches to a new level of backlighting coolness,...
POSTED Thursday, April 10, 2008
Here’s a new take on the keyboard. The Kensington Ci70 Keyboard gives you a couple of USB ports right at your fingertips, and hidden behind a nifty sliding door is a compartment holding a built-in USB cable with that...
POSTED Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Multifunction card readers are a dime a dozen nowadays, but the latest microSD card reader takes multifunction devices to a completely new level. Surprisingly, the ladybug-shaped exterior is probably its least-compelling feature. The big draw is that this card...
POSTED Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Whenever David Bue Pedersen looks over at the pictures of his loved ones, he'll know exactly which of them are online. That's because his picture frame is no ordinary frame. Known as the "DIY instant messenger online contact signalizer...
POSTED Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Here’s a reality check for you: Drives are shrinking even more. That 8GB Super Talent flash memory drive in the picture above is the smallest one in the world; it's barely an inch long. It’s easy on your pocketbook,...
POSTED Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Pinnacle’s seen some success with its PCTV HD Sticks over the past year, letting you turn your PC into an HDTV and TiVo-like digital video recorder (DVR) for peanuts. But we weren’t really interested until now. The change? This...
POSTED Monday, April 7, 2008
I find the best designs to be the most simple and intuitive. You don't need a lot of flash to be impressive, just a good idea implemented well. That's just what this FLX drive is: a tiny USB thumb drive...
POSTED Friday, April 4, 2008
Having more than one monitor is undoubtedly cool, but, if you play video games or watch movies, then you know that the gap between displays — formed by the casing that borders each monitor — can really take you out...
POSTED Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Despite being inspired by a snail, this keyboard concept, named the Caracol, would be great for amputees and just regular keyboarders alike. It looks a bit like a snail and uses a rotating keywheel. The keywheel has a 5:1...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
How fast do you need your printer to be? 30 pages a minute seems pretty reasonable to me, putting out a page every couple of seconds. But what if you're printing enough to be producing 19th-century Russian novels, and you...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
I would like to be the first to welcome the trackball, yes the trackball, back to the world. The trackball has been revived thanks to the EZ Commander, a remote control that makes excellent use of this dying peripheral....
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
There's no doubt why this design concept for a garish USB hub is called “Asterisko,” is there? The asterisk-shaped peripheral keeps that spaghetti-bowl of wires separated while making itself useful, offering a male USB plug along with its four...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The Smartparts SP8PRT is a two-headed beast. It displays photos like any other digital picture frame and prints them up, too. Does it deliver on its bi-polar promises? We were got our hands on the $280 digital photo frame,...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
You can beat this Transcend StoreJet 25 mobile hard drive to hell and it’ll still work. The 5.3-inch-tall drive is said to be able to survive the U.S. military's notorious MIL-STD-810F Transit Drop test, which means it can be...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
Computers are getting quieter and quieter, what with silent SSD drives replacing traditional hard drives. Cooling fans, meant to keep the CPU cool, are becoming the only moving parts left in computers, and even their days are numbered. That's because...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
The Jupiter Mouse, created by the mad scientists at Daru Mouse Japan, looks like the computer interface Grizzly Adams might use if he were immortal and living in the 22nd century. By simply moving the warm wooden sphere around in...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
I'm pretty sure there's nothing romantic about shoving a USB flash drive into a Swarovski engagement ring. First of all, if you're buying a Swarovski engagement ring rather than a diamond one you're probably already in trouble. But adding in...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Ever get that feeling when you read that you're missing something? Meet the the Dixau from Korean company Unichal: this text-scanning gadget agrees with you 100%. That's why it'll read along, scanning words with a camera and displaying them back...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
Maybe it's a guy thing, but I can't really figure out why some people think that slapping a bunch of Swarovski crystals on an object somehow makes it more glamorous. The latest victim is this optical travel mouse, which...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
Sony's decision to roll out the decidedly retro PS-LX300USB USB Stereo Turntable (available for 28,350 yen, or $286) might baffle some western consumers, but this move makes complete sense in Japan. While iPod Djs rule New York's hipster club scene...
POSTED Saturday, March 15, 2008
All right folks, we've got this pretty simple frame here: it draws power from your PC to light your photo, and it has a 4-port USB hub on the back of it. That's it. Time to get those thinking caps...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
Style and USB flash drive are words you rarely see used in the same sentence, but Poland's Zana Design thinks they can work together. While anyone can slap a few gems on a tech device to make it expensive,...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
Okay, gentlemen, this USB flash data storage device designed by Joel Escalona is for your desktop, not your suitcase. Our Transportation Safety Administration officers won’t think this iconic trinket is very funny, no matter how many “all your base”...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
Do you sit at a computer in your cubicle all day, ears perked up listening for oncoming unexpected visitors? Even if you're one of the many office workers who wastes company time poking around on Ebay, YouTube or Dvice.com,...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
At this point, in the age of the iPhone, it takes a lot to wow someone with a gadget. It used to be that a RAZR could draw a crowd, but these days there are very few gadgets out there...
POSTED Tuesday, March 11, 2008
This Mini Speaker is about the size of a hockey puck, and probably sounds about like most of the other small speakers you might plug into your cell phone or iPod. But wait just a minute. This one expands...
POSTED Monday, March 10, 2008
You know how people who work on small crafts have small tools to accommodate said craft? It would seem the same idea would apply to small computer work now that the Swiftpoint Slider is here. This is about as...
POSTED Monday, March 10, 2008
We've seen computer peripherals that look like Legos before, but these Japanese USB flash drives are actually compatible with standard Lego bricks. Just the thing for your kid when he or she wants to add a little realism to...
POSTED Saturday, March 8, 2008
Your mouse, it's boring. Why should you, a unique and beautiful snowflake, us a pointer for your computer that's just like the pointers everybody else has for their computers? It's just plain criminal. You need to show off your totally-unique...
POSTED Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Yes, kids. The day and age of buying USB-this and USB-that as individual entities has come to an end thanks to this USB desk assortment now available from Thinkgeek. The bundle includes a four-port USB hub to power and...
POSTED Wednesday, March 5, 2008
"Surely you backed up?" well-meaning bystanders will ask, the next time you happen to drop your laptop down a flight of stairs to its doom. But you probably didn't — it's such a bother. So to help you say...
POSTED Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Okay you twitchy gamers, here’s a gaming mouse that just might be faster than you are. The Razer Salmosa has a lightning-quick 1ms (that’s millisecond for mere mortals) response time, faster than any game, display, and certainly quicker than...
POSTED Tuesday, March 4, 2008
There’s a quiet revolution happening right under your fingertips. Breaking free of the bonds of wires and short-range wireless Wi-Fi networks are EV-DO (Evolution Data Only) modems, letting you use your laptop virtually anywhere there’s cell phone service. The...
POSTED Monday, March 3, 2008
Having your hard drive crash and losing all of your data is a serious bummer. If your data is really important and not just a bunch of pirated music and funny pictures you found on the Internet, there are companies...
POSTED Monday, March 3, 2008
The purpose of a digital photo frame is too look at it as it shows pictures, right? So what happens when the digital photo frame is capable of looking back? The universe could possibly collapse in on itself, or...
POSTED Friday, February 29, 2008
Unless you are operating on a MacBook, webcam usage on a laptop can be a tough one. You're always fumbling around with the little tripod-mounted spherical camera to get it in the perfect direction. Brando has a cheap and...
POSTED Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The UberTracker is an accessible way for just about anybody to add a GPS tracking system to whatever they want. It'll send GPS tracking updates to an email address or web server by way of a cellular antenna. You'll need...
POSTED Wednesday, February 27, 2008
We've seen our fair share of steampunk around these parts. The light saber, laptop, eye glasses and scanner are all the same—a device decked out in wood, copper, pipes and other industrial bits to be given a steampunk look....
POSTED Monday, February 25, 2008
On the one hand, putting a tiny screen on USB flash drives so you can quickly and easily see just how much space is available without having to plug them into a computer is a good idea. And if they...
POSTED Friday, February 22, 2008
The Paramount Parabolic Multi-Monitor Display by Humanscale gives you an easy way to attach anywhere from two to eight screens onto its unfolding monitor arm, no tools required. Everything snaps into place, including the displays. The screens are curved toward...
POSTED Friday, February 22, 2008
Print is cheap — that's Kodak's message. The company is trumpeting its line of EasyShare inkjet printers that use cheap $10 black and $15 five-color ink cartridges. Using these cheap inks, trumpets Kodak, can cut your printing costs by...
POSTED Thursday, February 21, 2008
Now you can dock with the Space Station without even leaving your desk. This one's even cleaner-looking than that hodgepodge of glorified tin cans floating in low Earth orbit, and it actually has a purpose. Imagine that spaghetti bowl...
POSTED Thursday, February 21, 2008
The Veho Film and Slide Converter turns 35mm negatives and slides into files that you can store on your computer. Just plug it into your USB port, load in a slide and convert it with a touch of a button....
POSTED Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The One-Click Recorder from Sharper Image is the ideal accessory for the teacher or boss that would prefer to sleep during lectures or presentations. One-Click is a tiny and obscure microphone. It plugs into the line-in on your laptop...
POSTED Tuesday, February 19, 2008
You may have seen this little guy floating around the blog world being billed as a USB Morse code machine. For a tech writer, the excitement of such a find is understandable — after all, our careers get made and...
POSTED Friday, February 15, 2008
There's nothing we hate more than filing, which explains why our floor is strewn with papers most of the time. Organizing is neither fun nor easy. The XamBox promises to change all that. The French invention scans documents and...
POSTED Friday, February 15, 2008
If you have a job where you need to record phone calls on a regular basis (like, I don't know… a journalist), it can often mean ending up with piles of tapes or MiniDiscs lying around. Not so with...
POSTED Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Genius Navigator 365 by Evergreen works like your standard cheap mouse, but you can flip it open to reveal a little gamepad on the inside. It's eight buttons and d-pad will most likely satisfy your needs if you're...
POSTED Friday, February 8, 2008
These Cylinder Travel Speakers are a pretty nifty way to take a bit of stereo power with you wherever you go. Packed up, as a tube, they fit neatly into your bag and will even still work as speakers....
POSTED Thursday, February 7, 2008
Damned if I didn't just buy a Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 v2.0 when the company rolls out a newer, upgraded Wireless Laser Mouse 7000 (pictured above left) that I'm lusting after right about now. Besides looking a lot...
POSTED Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Maybe I've been doing this too long, but there is something about simple innovation that brings the biggest smile to my face. It is particularly satisfying seeing a company take something as simple as a USB hub and innovate...
POSTED Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Most printers that people buy these days are cheap little things that cost less than the ink that you need to buy to get them to work. I mean, who prints stuff these days? Besides the occasional article or tickets,...
POSTED Monday, February 4, 2008
While prowling the show floor of photo convention PMA 2008 in Las Vegas today, we spotted this Delkin (not to be confused with Belkin) ImageRouter, a four-slot CompactFlash card reader and powered one-port USB hub. For $250, it lets...
POSTED Thursday, January 31, 2008
Most manufacturers have a pretty good grasp on the line between design and functionality. You can make a pretty gadget as long as it is still functional, and vice versa. Podera, on the other hand, hasn't grasped that concept...
POSTED Thursday, January 31, 2008
Add this one into the pile of other pointless gadgets like the USB eye warmer, smokeless ashtray, heated knee pads, greenhouse and shot glass. The one shining moment of this USB paper shredder is the fact that it is...
POSTED Thursday, January 31, 2008
Sure, there are way, way, way too many Simpsons licensed products out there, from t-shirts and lunchboxes to grills and toiletries, but this one seems like a cut above the rest. It's a webcam shaped like Mr. Burns! How could...
POSTED Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Great ergonomic strides have been made in the past few years in the field of pointing devices, but this Moldable Mouse design concept by Lite-On takes user-friendliness to its limit. The mouse is made of lightweight modeling clay with...
POSTED Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Adding to the ever-expanding multitude of USB-powered thingamajigs is this Smartech USB Aroma Radio + Speaker. It lights up your abode with seven soothing colors while playing music from its internal AM-FM radio, or lets you plug in your...
POSTED Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Pens are one of the cheapest, most disposable members of the office supply family, but Livescribe is looking to change that. It wants you to view your pen like a gadget, much like you view your computer, cellphone, or MP3...
POSTED Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Two is, generally speaking, better than one. At least in the computing world, where the more chips and such you have the faster you'll be running. That's the idea behind AMDs new ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, which has not...
POSTED Monday, January 28, 2008
If you consider the material on your computer to be so valuable that you need to turn your computer into a veritable safe, the computer padlock is for you. Sure, it's tough to compare your family photos and pornography collection...
POSTED Monday, January 28, 2008
You don't see trackball mice around much anymore. Why is that? I feel like they're more awkward than regular mice, but then again I think trackpads are pretty annoying and I use one every day. Maybe there was some conspiracy...
POSTED Friday, January 25, 2008
The Flexii Finger 3D USB Optical Mouse is a replacement for your usual pointing-and-clicking apparatus. See if you can picture this: you slide your index finger into an elastic ring along the Finger Mouse's underside and use your thumb...
POSTED Thursday, January 24, 2008
With this Buffalo keyboard and built-in Skype phone, otherwise known as the — get ready for it — BKBU-SKJ109/SV, you'll have everything you need to communicate right in front of you. It's like a little nerve center for the...
POSTED Wednesday, January 23, 2008
With iPods of all colors and shapes available, those little white earbuds that have become more of a fashion trend than legitimate audio accessory and you know a product like this was bound to happen. The 500XL is, guess...
POSTED Wednesday, January 23, 2008
If your desk is located inside a pirate ship, these "Goth Style Speakers," shaped like skulls with knives through them, are sure to look just perfect with all of your other decorations. If you live in a normal-looking house or...
POSTED Monday, January 21, 2008
For a little under $60, the STYSEN enclosure adds RFID security to any hard drive — though the drive's not included. And the security it adds? Well, maybe it's a bit too much. So you've got an RFID-enabled enclosure...
POSTED Friday, January 18, 2008
iTornado is actually an update of a PC-to-PC transfer product that came out last year under the brand Data Drive Thru, but with the rate of Windows-to-Mac switchers, there's now an omnidirectional version that works with any combination of...
POSTED Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Why settle for iPod speakers that just sit there? Dragon I (that's "eye," not 1, or so I was told) is a system with four speakers mounted at the end of flexible tendrils. It's got a 3.5mm audio jack...
POSTED Wednesday, January 16, 2008
This, my friends, is how you make storage sexy. These new LaCie Little Disks are like shiny black Zippo lighters, but instead of creating a flame, they hold 30 or 40GB of your data. It's completely pocketable and will allow...
POSTED Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Backing up your data with Apple’s Time Machine is easy — as long as you have a hard disk permanently attached to your desktop. With those sleek MacBooks, it’s more of a hassle, since you need to plug your...
POSTED Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Leave it to the creative and ingenious to find ways to take boring everyday gadgets and turn them into something fancy and spectacular. Take the ho-hum plastic optical mouse; introduce it to a clever case modder who's willing to...
POSTED Monday, January 14, 2008
Lightweight (1.5 pounds) and easy to carry, The PrintStik portable printer syncs with your laptop, PDA, and mobile cellphone when you have a document that you need a hard copy of right now. First you transfer them to the...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
If the Wi-Fi you're stealing from your neighbor just isn't cutting it for the hardcore raiding sessions, it may be time to look at a Wi-Fi signal booster. And the Hawking USB Wi-Fi Adapter has to be one of...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Belkin will ship the $100 Podcast Studio in June 2008.
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Call me crazy, but I don't really get what the point of this strange dual-monitor contraption is. A 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor with a 7-inch LCD attached to the side for some unknown reason, it supposedly gives you more space...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Creative showed off its new videoconferencing system here at CES, and it's pretty cute. This portable VoIP phone/web-cam combination has a 7-inch screen, dual microphones with echo cancellation and a high quality camera with wide-angle lens. It's meant to...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The Powerblock organizes your cables right at the source: your surge protector. Ordinarily, a cable organizer simply bundles your cables into a tube and, while there's nothing wrong with that, at either end of the tube things can still...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Voltaic Systems has been in the solar bag business for quite some time, but one of the only prior downsides is the inability to charge a laptop with a backpack's solar panels. The Generator is the latest in Voltaics...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Any pro photographer will tell you that getting a photo of a product or other small object from the right angle can make all the difference in the world in the presentation. Getting the perfect shot has just gotten...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
People put some pretty important files on their flash drives, so it's only fitting that they'd want a little peace of mind when it comes to keeping it protected. While some companies market drive with keypad protection or other...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The current crop of next-generation consoles support high-definition resolution, but for users who have limited budgets or just haven't made the jump to HDTV there's an alternative option: Put that PC monitor to use as a high-resolution gaming display....
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Leave it to Allsop, mousepad manufacturer extraordinaire to not give up on the mousepad business yet, even though it the true purpose of the mousepad went out back in the 1990s when ball mice were retired. Allsop's latest mousepad...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
When I used to work at a magazine, we used a page-layout program called Adobe InDesign. The program is very "palette-heavy" — it has several tiny little windows for its various tools, which inevitably lead to much clutter on...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
CES is barely underway, but I can already determine one of the biggest trends of the show, and even the upcoming year, and that is media steaming set-top boxes. SanDisk bestowed the TakeTV a couple months ago and now...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
For a lot of us, having grubby hands on a mouse for most of the day is a common occurrence. That can usually result in some dirt and grime, which Belkin is ready to tackle and more. This mouse...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
While almost any USB hub helps you manage your messy workspace by giving you a central unit to plug all of your USB cables into, they are often so light that they swing all over the place. The 7-port...
POSTED Friday, January 4, 2008
The SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus aims to keep whatever files you need to take with you both in your pocket and online. Coming in a 4 GB package, anything added to the flash drive will also appear on the...
POSTED Thursday, January 3, 2008
Trackballs are a peculiar gadget. Back in the 90s they were all of the rage. I still remember that big, red trackballs that many people would have and swear by. Flash forward a decade later and the trackball is...
POSTED Thursday, January 3, 2008
This insanely slick-looking monitor is a new offering from Dell. Who knew they had it in 'em? Featuring a transparent plexiglass frame that has speakers and a webcam built-in, it's one of the coolest monitors we've ever seen. Unfortunately, you'll...
POSTED Thursday, January 3, 2008
Oh come on! It's not even New Years and now Easter-themed USB peripherals are showing up. Easter is still four months away for crying out loud. This USB egg cluster looks like something that would pop out of a...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
Being stylish and always having to carry around a USB flash drive aren't two traits usually associated with each other. This Olinari Silver Dog Tag wants to think otherwise. This dog tag is loaded with style including the 24-inch...
POSTED Sunday, December 30, 2007
You may be familiar with our toaster fetish around these parts, but did you also know about our love with all things Boynq? Boynq's latest gadget is as simple as a memory card reader, but what makes it above...
POSTED Saturday, December 29, 2007
Here's the next forward-thinking keyboard idea from the Art.Lebedev Studio—this Optimus Tactus is a keyboard that has no keys. Along with its touchscreen substituting for physical keys comes flexibility, giving you choices of how big those graphic keys can...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
You know CES 2008 is just around the corner when companies start unveiling new digital photo frames. Digital Foci is primed to introduce three new frames that range from the small 5.7-inch (640x480) Image Moments 6, the medium sized...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
The DVD Coach Single Target Duplicator by EZ Dupe is both a mouthful and a computer-free solution for creating copies of DVDs and CDs. Just put whatever disc you want duplicated into one drive and a blank one in...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Having all of your CDs out on a bunch of shelves may look impressive, but it can be a pain if you don't have them organized in any way. The CD Carousel Plus holds 150 CDs at once, has...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Although this Netgear ReadyNAS hard disk enclosure looks almost exactly like a dehumidifier that's buzzing away in our basement right now, it's a whole lot more useful. That's because it's a well-known fact that you can't be too rich, too...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The NaturalPoint SmartNAV 3 allows you to control your computer cursor without using your hands — an obvious boon for those who suffer from debilitating pain or hampered mobility. Instead, you plug in the USB sensor, put it atop...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
There are some downsides to technology, and those being ridiculous items like this. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's tough to find at least one individual lazy enough to need a swiveling USB card...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
As digital picture frames move beyond mere autonomous devices and onto the Web, they become easier to use and more interactive. Here's an example of that, Ality's updated Wireless Pixxa frame, which lets you send and receive pictures to...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Mixing business and pleasure must be a common occurrence at Asus HQ. Its new line of 2-megapixel webcams include the added feature of being able to scan business cards with ease. This is thanks to the webcam's base, which...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
So how many gigabytes do you have in your pocket? If you had a Buffalo SHD-UHRS 100GB solid-state hard drive, you'd probably have more than anyone you come across. Take note of the USB plug at the end of...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
PC gamers, you know that in order to run the latest games such as Crysis and Unreal Tournament III, you need a really serious computer. And to run them at top speed, you need a really, really serious computer with...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
I always love it when designers take what are normally pretty boring devices and add a simple yet elegant element to them that makes them immediately more desirable. That's the case with this IVY external hard drive, which features...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
For some neat-freaks out there, being clean could be treated as a matter of life or death. That must be the inspiration behind the design of the BigGun Brush. Either that, or the daily frustrations of the cubicle warrior...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Hey SanDisk, I have some beef with you! This SanDisk Photo Album is only going to make my holiday experience that much more painful. Let me set the scene — it's Christmas day, everyone is sitting around talking, that...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
The Kanguru USB Duplicator allows you to plug in up to 24 thumb drives at once and dictate what information goes onto all of them. An LCD on the unit helps you to know what you're doing, and you...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Nicholas Tavlas has spent a lot of time developing a keyboard that perfects keyboard ergonomics. The unfortunate fact is through the creation process he never took a step back to see what an ugly duckling has been created. A...
POSTED Saturday, December 15, 2007
USB flash drives have become the portable storage medium of choice for, well, pretty much everybody who knows about them, offering a relatively cheap, rewritable alternative to blank CDs with an increasingly large capacity. And while most affordable models...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
The Chocolate Portable HDD is made up of modular flash memory blocks that you plug into the central unit as you need more space. The hub features a touchscreen display so you can manage whatever files you have loaded...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Lets face it, some hand motions are just more natural than others, and operating a standard mouse isn't one of them. With the SafeType mouse you can hold your hand in a natural position, a grip with the thumb...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Some of your best ideas might just come to you when you have nothing but a pad of paper handy, be they plans for a flying car, an angry letter to your boss, or an absentminded doodle of an...
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Technology has come quite a long way since the original USB Missile Launcher was unveiled a year ago. It was so popular that biggie Microsoft wanted some USB desktop weapon action and has teamed up with Dream Cheeky for...
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
One of the most common factors surrounding all of the amazing steampunk mods we have seen in the past is the fact that they are all custom built. Now a Chinese company by the name of ChinaVision has produced...
POSTED Monday, December 10, 2007
Personal computers get a lot of love, what with all the crazy case modifications we've seen. So why not CD towers? Designer Kwang Hoo Lee out of the United Kingdom made the Light CD Tower and it's half lamp,...
POSTED Friday, December 7, 2007
First it was the cellphone industry and now portable storage? LaCie has gotten involved with designers as of late for collaboration on unique external hard drives that look and feel a little bit classier than external hard drives of...
POSTED Thursday, December 6, 2007
Remember these little guys? Kids these days don't know just how vulnerable data used to be. Heat, magnets, pressure, and so on and so forth. The computer literate used to give out bundles of dead floppies as coasters at...
POSTED Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Transcend StoreJet OTG has a two-color OLED display that will let you manage what you've got on it, as well as interface with computer peripherals — minus the computer. Want to transfer data to and from a flash...
POSTED Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Nothing says "I'm a nerd" like the combo of cats and technology, but hey, why not embrace it? If you've got an old CRT monitor kicking around, you can use your mad DIY skills to turn it into a seriously...
POSTED Monday, December 3, 2007
Standard tablets are great for graphic designers and artists who hate being forced to use a mouse for their on-screen drawing. By giving them a pen, it gives them the freedom to draw as they learned to. But there's still...
POSTED Monday, December 3, 2007
Find yourself juggling USB devices without enough ports to use them all? Getting yourself one of these EZ Yego USB Drives by RiData may help — not only do you get one to four gigabytes of storage, but each...
POSTED Thursday, November 29, 2007
Because computer mice are designed to be ergonomic and not as small as they can possibly be, they contain a lot of unused space. While others have tried to enhance mice with LCD screens and label printers, a Swiss...
POSTED Thursday, November 29, 2007
There really is no end to what you can do with USB power. While these old USB-powered Christmas trees annoyed your office mates with relentless Christmas carols, this USB-powered string of lights is a classier hand-made (it uses Legos!)...
POSTED Wednesday, November 28, 2007
The Matias iRizer lifts your laptop up at four comfortable angles by sliding a stand into the cutouts on the base labeled 20°, 30°, 40° and 50°. Nothing fancy about this one, but your keyboard will be at a...
POSTED Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Creeping on your neighbors just got a little more intense with the Meade MAX00 Robotic German-Type Equatorial Mount with Tripod. This is a pretty big name for a seemingly simple robotic telescope mount. This mount can hold up to...
POSTED Tuesday, November 27, 2007
RSI getting you down? You could use voice recognition software, but that usually still involves a mouse, which can suck if your wrists and fingers are in terrible pain. Enter the orbiTouch keyboard, an ergonomic keyboard that lets you...
POSTED Tuesday, November 27, 2007
USB drives have become one of those must have gadgets, as it allows you to take gigabytes of data with you where ever you go. The calculator function on a laptop is all well and good, but what happens...
POSTED Tuesday, November 27, 2007
That's how the world goes. Once a company thinks of a genius idea, it has to go and mess it up with something completely ridiculous. The SliMouse Slimpad is a great idea because it replaces the traditional and sometimes...
POSTED Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Maxtor has teamed up with famous fire-safe manufacturer, Sentry Group, to develop an external hard drive with capable of withstanding fire and water. This partnership was a two-team deal. Sentry designed the casing to withstand 1550 Fahrenheit degree temperatures for...
POSTED Saturday, November 17, 2007
Manufacturers have forced to go above and beyond to make their flash drives really pop, especially now that said drives are handed out like candy nowadays. Asian manufacturer TwinMOS is making its flash drives stand out by essentially turning them...
POSTED Saturday, November 17, 2007
If your hands get cold during those long hours slaving away at the computer, you could always wear USB heated gloves, but those seem like they'd make it hard to type. Why clog up one of your precious USB ports...
POSTED Friday, November 16, 2007
If you're particularly interested in tracking the temperature in your home or office over a period of time, you could keep a thermometer at your desk and mark down the temperature every few hours and then draw a graph....
POSTED Thursday, November 15, 2007
You can always rely on our friends Thanko in Japan to be there to help us control our temperatures via our handy USB ports. From their USB Butt Warmer to their USB Heated Slippers, they're aiming to get every...
POSTED Thursday, November 15, 2007
Fujitsu, the company that brought us the world's smallest laptop, has come out with an external hard drive that is the worlds smallest— for its capacity. Its creatively named External Hard Disk Drive has 300GB storage space in a 3.3x4.7...
POSTED Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Samsung has just unveiled its "Chic & Smart" speakers, which beat out the other name they were considering, "Tacky & Stupid." Well, technically the speakers are dubbed the SMS-M1000s, but they're also known as Chic & Smart. Whatever, it's...
POSTED Monday, November 12, 2007
Pack your bags because the apocalypse is coming. This is apparent by the creation of the Cre8txt. Kids nowadays that would rather rock out T9 text messaging rather than using a full QWERTY keyboard can now do so anywhere,...
POSTED Monday, November 12, 2007
Unnecessary gauges are all of the rage now with kids decking out their 1983 Honda Civic CRX's with a dashboard chock full of gauges, and now that trend can be brought home with Gigabyte's Visuals USB gauge. This gigantic...
POSTED Thursday, November 8, 2007
You can get the Internet on your laptop in many places now due to the wonders of WiFi hotspots, but your car is one of the last places to be a virtual dead zone of Internet access. Sure, your cell...
POSTED Thursday, November 8, 2007
Solid state flash drives (SSDs) will be the standard format for hard drives before too long as soon as the prices come down thanks to continual innovations in the flash memory field. Samsung is leading the charge in this...
POSTED Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Don't deny it, you are probably munching on a donut right now, getting crumbs all over the place. The previous task of just wiping the crumbs onto the floor just won't work, especially when there is a completely ridiculous and...
POSTED Monday, November 5, 2007
It's ideas like this that make me question my blogging career and ponder the entrepreneurial field instead. Someone out there thought: "Hey, why don't I take this simple thermal label printer and put it in a mouse?" and is...
POSTED Saturday, November 3, 2007
When trying to impress your geek contemporaries sometimes having the fastest processor and the most outrageous case-mod isn't enough. That's when you have to add those edgy small touches like the Sanwa keypad mouse. While the Sanwa keypad mouse...
POSTED Friday, November 2, 2007
There's something about this odd-looking Saitek Cyborg gaming mouse that we really like. It's similar to the Microsoft Sidewinder gaming mouse, reminding us of a shoe sizer. Available in two different versions as you see here, notice how the...
POSTED Friday, November 2, 2007
There are few objects loaded up with more nostalgia than a cassette tape. At least for people in my generation, it represents sharing music via mix tapes as well as discovering music for the first time, as it was...
POSTED Thursday, November 1, 2007
I think we can safely say that the recent barrage of USB crap has gone too far, which has been made apparent by this cellphone holding and ring-detecting ferris wheel. We've seen items like this in the past, but...
POSTED Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The MP-170 speakers from Miraeplasma are computer speakers, yes, but just look at them! They're the thinnest speakers we've seen. And not only do they play music from such a thin profile, but they cleverly double as photo frames,...
POSTED Wednesday, October 31, 2007
If our favorable impression of Razer products such as the Pro|Type keyboard and Mantis gaming mouse pad is any indication, these Razer Mako speakers might be worth the wait for their December ship date. This THX-certified 2.1 speaker system...
POSTED Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Here's a brilliant gadget: a USB alarm clock shaped like a blender. First of all, why would you want your alarm clock to be USB? Do you sleep next to your computer? No? Then this thing is useless. Also,...
POSTED Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Skype announced today that it will release a software upgrade in November (v.3.6) that allows users to chat using "high quality" video with a few select webcams. The new video calling standard will be 640x480 pixels (as opposed to...
POSTED Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Pictured above is the iconic SCV-70 White Base from the wildly popular Gundam series of Japanese anime. While you might expect such a cool looking ship to do something like fire missiles or hold a few toy mechs, the...
POSTED Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Thumb drives are completely awesome, making the data CD basically obsolete by allowing us to carry around gigs of data on tiny, rewriteable drives that can plug into any computer. Who doesn't have at least one small thumb drive kicking...
POSTED Monday, October 29, 2007
Having trouble finding room for all those unwieldy AC adapters that seem to proliferate like amorous bunnies? While you might like the excellent Power Squid ($11.95), a more-conventional yet precise approach is this Tributaries T10 Power Strip. It aims...
POSTED Friday, October 26, 2007
This laptop stand made from laser-cut acrylic may just be your new best friend. It lifts your notebook up at an angle, allowing for better ventilation as well as a more ergonomic typing experience — though a lot of...
POSTED Thursday, October 25, 2007
Ahoy, me mateys! This Nexpeaker FS-701SW sloop (or "Nexspeaker," as it's commonly being called) cleverly integrates 2.1 channel sound into a sailboat design. Each sail is actually a 7.5 watt speaker, and the hull is a 15 watt subwoofer....
POSTED Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Hey lefties, the years of gadget discrimination are slowly coming to an end. Peripheral manufacturer Kensington has given in to the riots and demands by the lefties with the SlimBlade Media Notebook Set. Sure, they may be selling the...
POSTED Monday, October 22, 2007
Now you can hook up a dirt-cheap SATA disk drive to your PC or Mac by simply plugging it into this USB desktop adapter that works just like an iPod dock. Until now, if you wanted to add a...
POSTED Friday, October 19, 2007
There are a lot of fun and useful do-it-yourself projects out there, but a DIY wooden keyboard, like this one from HACOA, really takes the DIY cake. Now wood gadgets, they don't even phase us. This keyboard by Japanese...
POSTED Friday, October 19, 2007
The list of cornball USB gadgets has become embarrassingly long lately, thus some basic handy ideas have fallen by the wayside. Making up for all the goofy gadgets is the SpyDisk Pen, a decidedly James Bond-esque piece of equipment....
POSTED Thursday, October 18, 2007
I'm sure game fans of the world will salivate at the mere sight of this multi-screen display. Instead of requiring three different monitors (with three power cords, three cables, and so on), this display folds up into a neat...
POSTED Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Remember back in the day when having something with crystals on it was trendy and cool? Yeah, me neither, but that is what Etsy was going for with this crystallized USB flash drive. Call it good fortune or a...
POSTED Saturday, October 13, 2007
Posh Prezzies (one heck of a name) is getting its film noir on with this pair of retro-style USB peripherals. The USB web cam is pretty mediocre at 300k pixels and USB 1.1 connectivity, but it sure does look...
POSTED Friday, October 12, 2007
Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. Hard-disk drives gotta crash. Even executives of companies who make hard-disk drives admit they have a life of between three and five years. They're mechanical. They wear out. Any hard drive still chugging...
POSTED Thursday, October 11, 2007
Flash drives, or SSD drives, might be the wave of the future, but they're still much to expensive to really be practical in today's computers. Even though they save energy and are faster than their platter-based cousins, we just aren't...
POSTED Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Once in a blue moon a gadget strolls in that causes eyebrows to raise at first, but after further investigation, could be really useful. Enter the Deluo MouseGPS. It looks like a fairly basic travel-sized mouse with retractable cable...
POSTED Monday, October 8, 2007
We're always interested in unusual-looking USB outboard boxes for PCs, especially when it comes to great-sounding audio. That's because the farther away your audio components are from all that electronic noise and static inside your computer, the better. That's...
POSTED Friday, October 5, 2007
Above all, the one thing that really gets me about gaming-centric peripherals is how sweet they can look. Check out that gallery! Your standard keyboard isn't quite as functional as it could be for serious gamers who enjoy playing...
POSTED Friday, October 5, 2007
There's a pretty fine line between convenience and laziness, and this USB peripheral definitely teeters on that line. The USB Pagescore Turner does essentially that — turns the pages of digital sheet music with the tap of the foot....
POSTED Thursday, October 4, 2007
Hot on the heels of its Gateway One all-in-one PC, the cow company today rolled out another whopper: a 30-inch Extreme HD display, calling it "quad HD" because it's four times the resolution of that garden-variety HDTV broadcast by...
POSTED Thursday, October 4, 2007
The Replug utilizes the magical power of magnets to protect your expensive audio equipment. I hate to do the comparison, but think of it like the Magsafe adapter on Apple's MacBook, minus the proprietary functionality, and it's for audio...
POSTED Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Regular mice are boring. Why control your computer's cursor with what everyone else has when you can pretend to live out your violent fantasies, one click at a time? That's the question that's raised by this Pistol Mouse, a...
POSTED Wednesday, October 3, 2007
EVDO modems are a great way to stay connected to the web when you aren't near a WiFi hotspot, allowing you to access the Internet via high-speed cellular networks rather than cable or DSL. You simply need to get...
POSTED Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Nowadays people will cram a lighter into anything and the Memlight is no different. This is a USB flash drive with an attached lighter. The lighter is refillable, so when the butane is gone, it can be easily refilled....
POSTED Tuesday, October 2, 2007
There has always been something relieving about bashing in a mole's head as it pops out of its hole — maybe it is just our carnivorous instincts. Now all of that fun of bonking mole heads at the arcade...
POSTED Monday, October 1, 2007
Gateway introduced an iMac-style "all in one" computer called the One at Digital Life yesterday. Our editor thought it looked promising, and he wasn't alone. Desktop computers, even other all-in-ones rarely garner so much attention (unless they're iMacs, that...
POSTED Sunday, September 30, 2007
Winter will be here before you know it, so to prepare you for those long nights of chilly Internet surfing we introduce you to the USB Warmer Cushion from Thanko. Attach the cushion to your computer's USB port and...
POSTED Saturday, September 29, 2007
Even when your computer is off, all those peripherals you have plugged into it continue to suck up precious energy. Be it your printer, your speakers, your monitor, or an external hard drive, they all just love wasting expensive,...
POSTED Friday, September 28, 2007
Skype and other VoIP services are nice and cheap, but you're usually stuck using a headphone attached to your PC or specialized phone. Start-up MagicJack simplifies your VoIP life with a matchbox-sized USB modem into which you plug any...
POSTED Friday, September 28, 2007
With IceRage, Virtuu USA isn't out to wow you with the technology inside their gadgets. After all, a mouse with a laser pointer isn't exactly new. But the sleek styling of the IceRage Pocket Mouse and Pocket Presenter, coupled...
POSTED Thursday, September 27, 2007
The personal media player world is still rocking from Apple's avalanche of new releases, and now more than ever it's important for opponents of the immortal iPod to stand and deliver if they want to survive. While rumors hint...
POSTED Wednesday, September 26, 2007
There are altogether too many memory-card formats out there, and if you're somewhat of a gadget fetishist, chances are good you have piles of them that you use for different devices. With all those cards, you'll need a memory-card...
POSTED Tuesday, September 25, 2007
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, which is so very true. While I could talk until I'm blue in the face about the amazing advancements technology has made over the last few decades, I think the...
POSTED Monday, September 24, 2007
These days, USB memory sticks are so cheap and handy that you might have a few of them lying around — I know I do. While it's nice to be able to carry around several dozen gigs worth of...
POSTED Monday, September 24, 2007
Number pad? We don't need a stinking number pad when there's a mysterious "handwritten identity feature" integrated into this keyboard from A1Pro. There aren't a lot of details regarding the specifics of the handwriting pad, but I would assume...
POSTED Thursday, September 20, 2007
Psst! You with the laptop. Wanna watch some TV? And I'm talking HDTV, pal, not that standard-def garbage. All you need to do is plug in Pinnacle's HD Ultimate in your USB port and you're done. Yep, that's it....
POSTED Thursday, September 20, 2007
Got an older monitor sitting around in your closet? Chances are pretty good that you might be able to pull it out of retirement as a secondary display using one of DisplayLink's docking stations or adapters. Some desktop computers...
POSTED Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Right when you think you've got a cable standard down that works with most of your devices, some committee or commission of some sort goes and releases a new, better standard to upgrade to. It's pretty annoying, but it's one...
POSTED Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Meet Lili and Oscar from United Pepper. These two little gems are constructed entirely from sustainable material that won't explode the planet and anger Al Gore to the point of no return. Lili happens to be an octopus and...
POSTED Friday, September 14, 2007
Until now, the largest flash-based SSD hard drive has been 160GB, and it was insanely expensive. Right now, the largest you're going to find in a consumer product such as a laptop is 64GB, which generally adds around $900 to...
POSTED Friday, September 14, 2007
Generally speaking, webcams suck. I mean, they're fine for what they do, which is take grainy photos of you sitting shirtless at your computer, but they don't take the kinds of shots you'd want to print out and frame....
POSTED Thursday, September 13, 2007
I guarantee that there is absolutely nothing a keyboard could possibly offer that would justify a $28,000 price tag. But hey, that isn't stopping a company named Fairlight from trying, as that's exactly how much their new XYNERGI keyboard...
POSTED Thursday, September 13, 2007
If you want to feel more secure when you travel with a laptop and also kind of want to feel like the guy that travels with the president with the nuclear codes handcuffed to his wrist, you'll probably love...
POSTED Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Hard drives are being put into some interesting enclosures these days. Take the fanless Golden Disk from LaCie, for example. Teaming up with designer Ora-Ïto, LaCie continues its practice of trying to rethink the shape of PC peripherals. But is...
POSTED Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Saitek's new Cyborg Rumble game pad is customizable, letting you swap the positions of the left-hand thumbstick and directional pad. It's perfect for people who are used to the positioning of the PS3 or Xbox 360 controller layouts and...
POSTED Tuesday, September 11, 2007