Tag archive: usb flash drives

You’ve no doubt connected your digital camera to your computer to download photos or have inserted a little black thumb drive to store or retrieve files. But rejoice – the USB port can be used for so much more, thanks to its ability to suck electricity through your computer, powering some of the world’s strangest devices. Following are ten of the cutest, silliest and most useless examples we could find. As a fun game at home, try playing… Read More

The new Digital Audio Players combine crystal-clear sound with a sleek design and sport a three-button/one-joystick design and easy-to-navigate user interface. They feature MP3, Windows Media(R) file and Windows Media-based DRM file playback, FM radio and voice recording and can double as a USB data storage device. Because the players have the ability to play Windows Media-based DRM files, they can be used with any of the popular music… Read More

That will change in the next year or so thanks to work from Microsoft, BIOS vendors and USB and flash drive makers, potentially kicking into overdrive a market already in high gear. The USB Implementers Forum is in the late stages of drafting a boot spec for these USB flash drives, as they are properly known.   Microsoft Corp. is working on a version of its Windows Pre-installation Environment for the drives, describing it… Read More

Quote from the review at Anandtech.com: “Name brand 128MB USB flash drives are somewhere in the range of $40 to $65, while MSI's Mega Stick 1 has an MSRP of $119. Of those that are on the market, we highly recommend the Mega Stick 1 for those interested in getting a bit more from their USB flash drive. No doubt, it will be a great gift for the holiday season. We took this on several of our trips, and we can testify to the… Read More