Tag archive: USB

Want a $35 computer? Good news, your dreams are about to become reality! After a delayed release date, the low-cost USB computer units are finally leaving factories on February 20 and will be available on the market by the end of the month. The Raspberry Pi Foundation team announced yesterday that since production began last month, manufacturing teams faced a short setback when they ran into problems sourcing a specific model of quartz crystal… Read More

The battle over which data cable standard will dominate in the years ahead is beginning to heat up. With USB 3.0 beginning to take off, the fate of Intel's high-speed Thunderbolt port has been under scrutiny as of late. Everything runs on USB and though Apple has been a huge proponent of the new Thunderbolt port, including it as one of the only ports on its entire line of MacBook computers, support from the world's most popular tech… Read More

With an eye-catching rectangular, boxy design, Logitech has released details prior to CES regarding a new type of mouse that's designed for anyone giving a presentation. Completely cordless, the device functions as a typical mouse when resting on a hard surface like a desk or conference room table using a 1000dpi laser sensor on the bottom of the Cube. When the mouse is lifted off the surface, the Cube automatically detects the change and… Read More

Many of us have a single desktop or laptop that has most of our life's contents on it, but said computer doesn't necessarily go everywhere with us, which can be a problem. What if you want to snag a few files from your home computer while you're at the office? With quick and easy cloud service still not widely available, your options are pretty limited, and most times you'll just be out of luck. If you've got an… Read More

The technology world is literally littered with USB peripherals: tens of thousands of printers, scanners, cameras, hard drives, speakers, video cameras, memory card readers and more all sport USB ports. Of course, while many printers and multi-function devices often come with built-in Wi-Fi these days, versions with Wi-Fi often cost more, and enormous numbers of USB peripherals offer no wireless option. IOGear aims to help solve that with its… Read More

Designed to blend into the background of any iMac desktop setup, Iomega's new Mac Companion Hard Drive sits unassumingly at the base of the iMac. A brushed silver exterior circles the drive and matches the shading on the iMac stand. The drive comes with either 2TB or 3TB storage depending on the model.  The 3.5-inch hard drive runs at 7,200 RPM and comes with one FireWire 800, one conversion FireWire 400-800 as well as one USB 2.0 cable… Read More

Wednesday is definitely being dominated by Apple releases, foremost of which is the much anticipated Mac OS X Lion. The new operating system replaces Snow Leopard and is being available for download from the Mac App Store for $29.99.For those customers who for whatever reasons would like an alternative option to the Mac App Store, Apple says they'll be putting out a USB drive version of the OS X Lion next month. Apple Insider is saying… Read More

Ever since the bus was invented, the accompanying bus shelter has been a common feature of city life. Not only does it inform the would-be passenger where to wait, it also provides the driver with vital information regarding where to stop. Without them, who knows, there could be thousands of empty buses in our cities going around in circles, while lines at the aforementioned bus shelters snake around the block. Furthermore, as the name suggests,… Read More

Our friends over at Photojojo have come up with a creative way to use all those film canisters that just end up in the garbage behind your local film-developing store. I know, these colorful canisters may look strange to some of you younger folks. Before the wonderful popularization of digital cameras, people had to deal with a little plastic canister of film for every 36 photos they took. Now we are lucky to be able to store thousands of… Read More

Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 are the next great evolutions in device interconnection technology. You're starting to see support for the new connection types pop up in home computers — Apple's latest MacBook Pro, for example, sports a Thunderbolt port — but market leader Intel is still backing its relatively new Sandy Bridge processors, which don't include support for either. Now the company has finally given an… Read More

Intel announced this week that it plans to release developer kits for its new Thunderbolt data transfer system, which will help greatly increase the number of Thunderbolt-compatible devices, and reduce the time it takes for such products to be made available to consumers, reports PC World. The Thunderbolt system was originally debuted by Intel on February 24 of this year. Apple's new line of MacBook Pro laptops are the first devices on… Read More

Notebook computers may have revolutionized the way most people think about computing, but if there's one thing desktop systems still have going for them, it's screen real estate. Desktop systems can support substantially larger monitors than a typical notebook—after all, there's a desk to put it on, and it doesn't have to fit in a bag! Moreover, many desktop systems these days support multiple monitor setups, and… Read More

Although details have been leaking out regarding Intel’s new uber-connection for a while now, today the curtain has officially been pulled back and details on the new Thunderbolt data transfer connection have been released. Basically it is fast. Very, very fast. Originally operating under the code name “Light Peak”, Thunderbolt will allow data transfers of up to 10GBps. To put that in perspective, USB 3.0—which is still relatively new, just… Read More

Looks like Verizon is going to deliver that 4G network it's been talking about for the past year. Today the company announced that this Sunday, it will begin the launch of the first 4G LTE network. Just to give you an idea of its capabilities, Verizon claims the new mobile broadband will offer speeds up to 10 times faster than its 3G network currently provides. Before going any further, let’s get one thing out of the way: This isn’t… Read More

Art meets functionality in a New York artist’s latest project. Aram Bartholl’s has installed five USB flash drives into New York building exteriors for public use. Bartholl is a resident artist for Eyebeam, an organization that promotes non-profit art and technology, and he describes the project as “an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.” He refers to them and the project as “Dead Drops,” a term commonly… Read More