Archive for the 'Storage' Category

SanDisk wins CES award for their smallest 64GB Solid State Drive

SanDisk was on deck at CES Unveiled last night, and they were showing off their Design and Engineering Award for the World's Smallest 64GB Solid State Drive. It is smaller than a postage stamp and weighs less than a paper clip, so I am told. It also has the fastest high-capacity embedded storage ...

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Eye-Fi can now do photo transfers by becoming a hotspot, thanks to Direct Mode

Some of you might be familiar with Eye-Fi, as they make storage cards that can link wirelessly to the user's computer. They recently got an application and an upgrade to customers in Europe. The best that the Eye-Fi could do before was peer-to-peer applications between cameras and computers, but this next update will ...

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Here are 64GB and 128GB Class 10 SDXC cards from Lexar Media

For those of you who are excited about storage cards that are 2TB with 300MBps transfers, you'll have to wait a while longer. As of now, we got some pretty high memory cards from Lexar Media, a company famous for their printers, to give us 64GB and 128GB Class 10 SDXC cards. This ...

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PQI has new 64 GB SDXC Memory Card

PQI is launching a 64 GB SDXC card, which is a class 10 card. I'm not certain what kind of classification 10 means, but they are working on SDXC memory cards. These would be capable of 2 TB storage, but the technology is not there yet. As for the 64 GB format, ...

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Sony Announces New Line of SDHC Memory Cards

Without a doubt, across the board, Sony is one of the biggest names in the electronics world no matter the market. Digital cameras are no different with Sony having several different products on the market that fall into this niche. Today, the company has come forth to announce their ESSENTIAL line up of SDHC cards. The ...

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Handheld Attack DVR takes a picture of your assailant

It's not often that we report on personal defense products, and this Handheld Attack DVR has nothing to do with a TiVo. The Handheld Attack DVR is a tiny device that can emit a blinding LED light as well as 90 decibels of noise to ward off an attacker, and then it begins to ...

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Get all the back issues of Playboy for $300

Yeah, I thought that I might as well report on this. We could probably use some more hits. Some of you might appreciate the photography in Playboy, so you can now get the all the back issues of it on a hard drive. It is about 650 issues, and designed to "slip ...

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SanDisk, Sony, and Nikon teaming to do Next Generation Memory Cards

SanDisk, Sony, and Nikon are planning on proposing a new memory card format that "ditches the PATA interface in favor of the PCI Express serial interface". This would allow cards to achieve data transfer rates of up to 500MB per second to allow storage capacity to beyond 2TB. This combines a "high-speed data ...

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SIM cards: Not just for phones anymore?

Some of you are aware of the SIM card in GSM phones that provide mobile phones an identity. Imagine using these cards on something other than mobile phones. Apparently, the GSM Association is overseeing a task force for adapting SIM cards on more devices than just phones. So far, they have ...

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Eye-Fi and Flickr get together with Amazon

There is an exclusive promotion taking place at Amazon which combines the Eye-Fi cards and Flickr. With that being said the deal is pretty simple: in case you buy an Eye-Fi Explore X2 or an Eye-Fi Pro X2 card until the 14th of November via Amazon, you get a Flickr Pro account for free, for one ...

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