At work or home, you use your laptop’s USB ports for different accessories. Usually, we use them for a mouse or an external hard drive, a laptop cooler or a USB lamp. But on the market, for every one of these very practical gadgets there are some stupendously tacky and whimsical devices that also use […]
Month: May 2014
Doodle in Air with Lix 3D USB 3.0 Pen
May 21, 2014We are sure that, sometimes, when you heard the old saw “You would not download a car”, you had moments when you would have like to immediately say “Yes, I would”. With the Lix 3D Pen, you will most surely not be able to create your own car or create the latest FX extravaganza, but […]
Panda Cloud Antivirus 3.0 with bootable USB drive Rescue Kit
May 16, 2014On 8th of May, Panda Security announced the release of Panda Cloud Antivirus 3.0, the latest edition of its very popular cloud-based antivirus application. We’ve tried it and we have to say that it is fast and ultra-lightweight without making any compromises to functionality. The 3.0 version comes with a Windows 8 styled interface, as […]
Keepod, the socially responsible bootable OS for USB drives
May 15, 2014In Nairobi, Kenya, there is a 500,000 resident slum, Mathare, where there is no school system, water supply or even basic sanitation. Except for the “street” schools, people living there have no other access to the most basic learning facilities, so only 10% of the local youth manage to reach college or other form of […]
Asus WL-330NUL – the Swiss Army Knife of USB, Wi-Fi and Ethernet
May 14, 2014We are sure that you already know about travel routers or at least heard about them. They are little and cheap Wi-Fi routers powered by USB and can fit even into your pocket. Asus WL-330NUL This is one of them and it requires less space than a pack of gum. It is very versatile, as […]
Four painfully creative flash drive uses
May 9, 2014Most of the USB flash drive users see them just as devices only good for storing or sharing digital data, but not much else. USB sticks are not simply expandable, because with a little creativity and knowledge, these little gigabytes file carriers, have a lot more potential. Among their many uses, while browsing over the […]
Star Trek-like tricorders, Predator thermal vision and stun guns at CES 2014
May 8, 2014At this year CES we have seen a lot of wacky but interesting gadgets and some of them we’ve presented in some of our previous articles. Today we are going to present you another set of devices that are bringing the future closer and make the present feel like sci-fi. We will focus more on […]
Europe supports the call for a universal smartphone charger
May 6, 2014Today, smartphones come in all shapes and sizes and to find the right charger for the one we own can become a maddening scramble. But all this may come to an end as European politicians backed up a regulation to force smartphone manufacturers to use for their devices just one type of charger. Universal […]
Intel’s Thunderbolt 3
May 5, 2014To keep up with the trend generated by the announcement of the new USB 3.1 connectors, Intel is coming with the Thunderbolt 3, which also promises a smaller connector and double the speed of the previous versions. But the release of this new technology will have to wait a while, most probably until 2015 at […]
The Evolution of USB Flash Drives
May 2, 2014Since we’ve started our USB adventure, mostly due to our passion of technology, our goal was to provide to our customers the most appealing and effective brandable USB flash drives. So, as the market changes its preferences and technology advances, occasionally we have to put some older designs aside, to make way for the new […]