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USB technology is the leading connectivity standard for consumer electronics. GetUSB.info takes a look at these products and other fun USB Gadgets to show how USB affects your everyday life, it really does. We talk about USB 1.1, USB 2.0, Wireless USB and soon to be USB 3.0. We have USB hacks, tutorials and general USB information. Welcome and enjoy.

A 16GB business card from PQI

06.08.06 | Flash Storage| USB Fever| USB News | Permalink

PQI has a 3mm thick 16GB hard drive just bigger then a business card. The U510 holds a maximum capacity of 16GB and is connected by a USB 2.0/ 1.1 compatible Intelligent Stick connection. It uses the patented Intelligent Stick technology and is the reason why the Card Drive itself maintains a 3mm thickness throughout. Using a retractable design, the Intelligent Stick connector is one with Card Drive and can be tucked neatly allowing U510 to retain a business card size and 3mm thickness throughout. (more…)

USB flash key failures increase 300%

06.07.06 | USB News | Permalink

…well at least that is what Payam Data Recovery is claiming.

The increasingly popular flash drive or key memory stick may be a good way to transfer data but as a permanent back-up device it doesn’t cut the mustard, as an increasing number of people are painfully finding out, according to a data recovery specialist. (more…)

USB flash drive from the movie Grease?

06.07.06 | Flash Storage| Rugged Flash Drives| USB News | Permalink

This USB flash drive looks like it could be a prop from Grease or maybe a design from the guys over at Hot Wheels. The Fireball USB drive from Super Talent Technology is Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and houses a dual-channel controller to deliver at least 25MB per second read speeds and 12MB per second write speeds. (more…)

USB medical wristband for kids

06.06.06 | USB News| USB Tutorials | Permalink

A USB flash medical wristband for kids sounds like a great idea to GetUSB.info, but my child goes through one pair of sneakers a month playing so hard, I couldn’t expect him to keep a USB wristband on. (more…)

Jack PC - A computer inside a wall outlet

06.05.06 | Processors| USB Input Device| USB Keyboard| USB News | Permalink

The Jack PC is a revolutionary new ‘thin client’ computer small enough to fit in a wall outlet. Thin clients are effectively desktop computers designed to connect to a ‘terminal server’ or Citrix based environment where processing is handled by servers instead of PCs. Thin clients have been getting smaller and smaller over the years however this is the world’s first Windows-based thin client small enough to fit in a network wall port. (more…)

Gigabeat is Silver Bullet from Toshiba

06.04.06 | Audio| Flash Storage| Gaming| USB News| YouTube Video | Permalink

The Silver Bullet of multimedia players is the new Toshiba Gigabeat - one look and a silver bullet will go right through your heart and you’ll be in love forever - oh, wait that’s cupid. Anyway, Toshiba’s snazzy, silver Gigabeat MEG-F40S packs a 1.8-inch Toshiba hard drive capable of holding an incredible 40 GB of digital media: MP3 and WMA compressed audio and even uncompressed, full-resolution WAV files. That’s about 10,000 songs (more than 600 complete albums) at 128 kbps MP3, a crazy 20,000 songs at 64 kbps WMA, and a still-impressive 1,100 songs or 75 hours of CD-resolution WAV files. (more…)

Intel Xscale getting the axe

06.03.06 | Processors| USB News | Permalink

Xscale is getting the axe including other divisions such as its network processors business IXP. Intel spent more than $10 billion to enter the communications business over the years, but the microprocessor giant lost its shirt — if not millions of dollars in the arena. The reported communications-chip sale is said to be part of Intel’s plan to overhaul the company. Intel is also set to include the layoff or redeployment of 16,000 employees. (more…)

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