Archive for October, 2008

Microsoft Arc Mouse Review

Available in glossy red or black, the Microsoft Arc Mouse is a rather unique blend of style, portability and functionality. Possessing an artful hinged semicircular shape that allows the mouse to fold to nearly half-size for travel, the 2.4 GHz wireless Arc Mouse boldly claims to be portable while offering the comfort of a full-size […]

LaCie LaCinema Rugged Media Extender Gets Tough

To get digital media from your PC to living room, either you are streaming the content wirelessly to a TV over a network, or you must be moving the content physically - likely on a mobile drive. LaCie’s LaCinema Rugged portable media extender makes it easier if you opt for the latter choice of […]

DisplayLink USB Video Driver Goes Gold (OpenGL Still Work-in-progress)

Ten months after Displaylink announced it would enter Mac market with USB video technology, the company has now shipped out the first stable driver for all Intel-based Apple desktops and laptops. The 5.64MB driver brings Tiger & Leopard compatibility to Displaylink-compatible products such as the Kensington sd200v notebook dock, IOGear USB video card and […]

USB Touch Sensor Externalizes Volume Control

We’re as puzzled as you are why one would need to install an external volume control that is tethered to a LCD monitor. After all, a wired controller like this is pretty pointless when keyboards and even some mice have dedicated volume control. If you run a bunch of kiosks which some of […]

rayD8gig - An Ultra-limited Mimobot for Halloween

Perhaps only the god knows when Mimobot can stop milking on the current flash drive design that has made C-3PO, Darth Sidious, Master Chief and a bunch of others look like weirdos. This time, Mimobot comes up with rayD8gig - an inversely-colored skeletal figure combing black paint and a glow-in the-dark base. The […]

IOGear’s WUSB Hub V2 - 8-way PC Sharing, Audio Streaming

IOGear has quietly debuted what appears to be the next generation Wireless USB hub. It’s hard to tell the differences from the original unless you download the PDF manual. For starter, the WiQuest-powered WUSB hub finally supports USB audio streaming and webcams, meaning out-of-the-box compatibility with USB speakers like the Logitech Z Cinema […]

Minoru3D - Dual-lens USB Webcam Creates 3D Video

Certainly, we haven’t seen a lot of innovations going on in the webcam world besides the upgrade to half-baked HD and Carl Zeiss auto-focus lens. For business video conferencing alone, the 1.3MP integrated video camera on your laptop should serve you just fine. That might suffice if you want a 2D video representation […]

Thermaltake BlacX SE USB Hard Drive Dock Review

Many households go through numerous generations of internal computer hard drives ranging from 2.5″ laptop to 3.5″ desktop / server class hard drives in a futile attempt to remain up-to-date with storage requirements, but what do you do when you quickly need to retrieve your photos or documents you filed away on that old 80GB […]

USB Bus-powered Blu-ray Burner for Lappies

It’s an immediate let down to some of HD fanboys that the latest unibody aluminum MacBook Pro skips Blu-ray support - something Apple czar called it a big bag of hurt due to Sony’s complex licensing structures. There’s still Amex Digital coming to the rescue with its Portable USB Blu-ray Super Multi Drive.
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New MacBook Picks USB over FireWire (Still No 3rd USB Port)

We all know Apple has pulled back the curtain on its first aluminum-encased MacBook. While the improvements may seem obvious at first, Apple has apparently taken out FireWire 400 completely as well as the target disk mode that is dependent on part of the FireWire standard. For the uninitiated, target disk mode allows […]