Mobility is the future and until the new USB 3.1 standard will be fully implemented, our external storage devices have to be able to be used in any circumstances. Today, we don’t have content only on desktops or laptops. As we’ve started to use more and more smartphones, tablets and other smart devices, mobile storage […]
Month: April 2014
The super-secure USB drive Talis Operating System
April 25, 2014Maybe you have heard about the Lavabit.com, the extra secure and private e-mail provider that Mr. Snowden used. This service has shutdown rather abruptly, not to comply with the US government requests about the Snowden connections. Talis Operating System But we will not go into further details with this story, as we’d like to talk […]
The Kingston’s 1 TB USB flash drive on Lightning Deal
April 23, 2014In the last years, the USB storing technology advanced pretty fast. At the CES in 2013, the Kingston Technology, Inc. ‘s HyperX Predator of 1 terabyte USB flash drive had its debut. Kingston HyperX Predator Even now, this huge USB stick is still not quite affordable. With a Lighting Deal from the popular shopping portal […]
Portable wind turbine for charging USB devices
April 21, 2014If you travel a lot, portable chargers are very useful, even necessary. Everyone loves to have their USB devices charged on the go, without the need of having an electrical outlet available. Just hook up you smartphone, laptop or GPS, put it in your bag and go. But the problem appears when you need to […]
10 meters optical USB 3.0 cables
April 18, 2014Thanks to the new Corning’s optical cables, USB 3.0 connections are advancing to light speed transfers and, none the less, longer distances. With stretches of up to 10 meters, the USB 3.0 optical cable has transfer data speeds much higher than the standard copper ones. Plus, unlike the standard cable, which could only run for […]
Reversible USB 3.1 Cables
April 16, 2014For almost two decades computer users’ difficulties regarding trying and failing to plug-in the USB connectors will come to an end. The new Type-C USB connector model is going to be both symmetrical and reversible. The ends of the cable will the same at both ends and it will no longer matter which way the […]
The Radiation-Tolerant NAND Flash Memory
April 15, 2014Even thou the first glimpse at the product was at the Long Beach Convention Center during the April 1-3 Space Tech Expo, the TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. or TCS, one of the world leaders in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology announced this year, on April 8, the new radiation-tolerant NAND flash memory device. NAND […]
Is USB technology killing the desktops?
April 11, 2014At IDF 2014, in China, Intel released more details about the new revision of the USB technology, the version 3.1. The update was announced in 2013 by the USB Promoter Group and it may be formally approved in the next few months. The USB 3.1 The USB 3.1 comes with a new connector named USB […]
The Wireless Flash Drive
April 8, 2014In this article, we will give you a little review about the SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive. This device is a quite new addition from the flash memory maker and it offers, basically, all the features that are found in other similar existing Wi-Fi devices. But its major advantage is it size, the SanDisk Connect […]
Industrial USB – A Bridge in the Gap
April 7, 2014If you need a new computer or a laptop with a built-in serial port, you are in trouble, especially when it comes to mobile computers. In almost all home or office environments, the old serial protocol was replaced by the Universal Serial Bus, the USB, so PC manufacturers stopped providing them as standard hardware. But […]
3 Billion USB 3.0 Devices by 2018 – Global Industry Analysts
April 4, 2014The need of faster data transmission between external devices and host computer is higher and higher and mostly because of this, the global sales of USB 3.0 devices are projected to reach at least 3 billion units by 2018. As we all know, today, the USB standard has become a need for most electronic devices […]
Custom USB Drive – Creating the “Enter” USB stick
April 2, 2014We are all curious about the designs of some customised USB flash drives and almost all of them are provoking interest, mostly because of their unique nature. This applies even to a USB drive stuck inside a Lego brick or one with its electrical parts just wrapped in electrical tape. But in this article we […]