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Posts tagged “USB”

Make Your Own 9V Battery-Powered USB Charger

Battery-based USB chargers are pretty cheap, but it's always cheaper and more fun to make your own. The basic concept is a battery that powers a USB port so that you can juice up your gadgets. ...

Great Little Card Reader Sticks to Metal Surfaces

There is just something about simple and efficient solutions to problems. For example, it's really hard to go without a USB card reader. These small devices are used to read the cards from your camera...

Mimo Mini USB Monitors Make a Comeback

Add some extra screen estate to your laptop setup with one of four Mini USB Monitors from Mimo. Though we introduced the Mimo line earlier last year, we noticed they made a disappearing act halfway th...

Ten Best Looking USB Hubs We Can Live With

Despite the existence of just about any and every shape of USB peripheral out there, the lineup of USB products we'd actually like to invite into our home is quite small. We just ordered some USB po...

IMM Vulcan2GB Flash Drive is as Geek as You Can Get

Strange, weird, geeky...the IMM Vulcan USB 2GB Flash Drive is all these things. But it is possibly the perfect tech gift for the Trekker in your life (Christmas is just around the corner or offer it o...

Use Superbooster to Turn Any USB Device Wireless

This is another way of getting some of your peripherals wireless. This is just a small device in which you can plug a USB peripheral so that it can wirelessly connect to your home network. It is worth...

LaCie & Starck Mobile Hard Drive Collaboration

LaCie continues to bring out the star designer treatment, this time for a line of new hard drives designed by that lovable blowhard of iconic design, Philippe Starck. The aluminum sheathed USB hard ...

Six USB & Power Grommets for the Desk and Kitchen

One of the most common questions we receive is about hiding cables and wires in and around the computer. With the myriad of accessories that many of us live and depend upon, plugging in and out USB,...

Neil Poulton Designed LaCie Sound2 Speakers

We've always been oh-so-tempted to order a pair of Neil Poulton's LaCie speakers due to their modernist aesthetic, but reports of some audio hiss always gave us second thoughts. Well, we now have a ...

Great-Looking Illuminated Speaker and USB Hub

When you work with your laptop, you tend to use a few USB hubs when you are on the go. It doesn't really matter from what brand they are, as long as they work well. It's also best to work with some ki...

Kensington Joins Docking Station Boat, Sans Wireless

If Toshiba's Wireless U docking station seemed a bit out of reach at $300, perhaps Kensington HD Universal Docking Station may sound like a better fit for all you budget desktop conversion aficionados...

Toshiba Introduces Wireless Docking Station for Laptops

Many of us have been waiting for a reasonably-priced wireless HDMI streaming solution to hit the consumer market for quite some time now. It hasn't happened yet, and it probably won't any time soon. L...

Connect Work and Home Machines with iTwin

Why is everything branded with an 'i' these days? We don't know. But what the iTwin lacks in naming creativity, it more than makes up for in usefulness. Think of it as the remote desktop taken to anot...

Digitize Your Vinyl Collection with the Thanko USB Turntable

Besides a couple of stragglers, the majority of our CD collection has been ripped into various digital file formats and donated/given away to friends in our stride to live with less clutter. But we'r...

Elecom USB Soap Mouse

They look more like Pez candies than soap to us, but these soaps are definitely "kawaii" any way you look at them. Besides their appearances, the Elecom USB Soap Mouse is a regular mouse in every oth...

Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player

The Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player is a case of "close but no cigar". The system revolves around a concept not unlike gaming cartridges of yore, except now the "cartridges" consist of Seaga...

Gresso USB Drives Get Exotic, Priced to Match

You like speed, do ya? Formula 1 carbon fiber type speed? Well, Gresso likes speed. Which is probably why they've dedicated their latest Grand Monaco collection solely to the art of overkill - in the ...

Aegis Secure Hard Drive: When Security Software Isn't Enough

If there's one thing that needs to be secure, it's your data. Sure, some of us don't have any essential information on our computers, but lots of people store valuable data on their hard drives. It's ...

Logitech Mice Will Now Work on Glass Surfaces

As long as optical mice have existed, it's been known that they don't work well with glass surfaces. That's always been a shame, since there are some really nice glass desks out there. Well, you won't...

Verbatim InSight Hard Drive Displays How Much Space Available

Despite the small army of hard drives we own, we're always a little concerned how much space remains ever since we switched from a multi-drive tower to a laptop that requires an external drive for med...

Bluelounge Refresh Charging Station

Similar to the larger Sanctuary charging station, the newest compact Bluelounge Refresh is designed to keep your gear organized and fully charged while not in use (we think it's important to have a ...

Cheaply Get Touch Capabilities for Your Laptop via USB Monitor

Touch screens are what most users really want. With Apple releasing their neat new mulit-touch touchpads for their MacBooks, the race is on to provide touch and multi-touch capabilities to users. Unti...

iStubz iPod Cords: Useless and Necessary at the Same Time

The easiest way to battle cord messes in your home is to eliminate them entirely. That's why we dig wireless products so much. But if you can't go wireless, why not try and eliminate as much extra cor...

USB Battery Charger

Ha, we had this bookmarked to post about a little while ago, get back to it and now the sucker is sold out? Well, it's still a good product to place on backorder for those of us who have some spare US...

Look! Bento Box USB Drives

For all you fans of those cute lookin' traditional Japanese lunch box boxes, here's a miniature version of it for ya. Made with details such as mini broccoli and edema-me beans, you can finally pair u...