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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.

Kodak EASYSHARE Digital Picture Frames - A Long Journey from 1878

01.10.07 | Audio| USB News| Video| Wireless | Permalink

What other household name can we think of other then Kodak who consistently brings new and convenient technology to the masses. Well, since 1878 Kodak has been doing just that. Earlier this week Kodak took another step forward by introducing their EASYSHARE Digital Picture Frames.

Here’s the EASYSHARE picture frame, but lets take a look back at the top 12 milestones the average consumer would care about (not industrial advancements) THEN we’ll get to the picture frame:

easyshare digital picture frame
  • 1878 - George Eastman developed a method for dry gelatin photo plates and a year later invented an emulsion coating machine to mass produce these dry photo plates.
  • 1881 - Built the business big enough to move into a four story building at 343 State Street, Rochester NY where even today remains to be the world headquarters.

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Flash Drive Tracks Your Weight via U3

01.09.07 | Software| U3 Related| USB News | Permalink

Little on the heavy side and looking to track those extra pounds? CalorieKing introduces a diet log for the U3 flash drive platform to record everything you eat and the exercise you do against the world’s largest food and exercise database. But then again, if you are disciplined enough to download CalorieKing software, activate it in your U3 flash drive and enter daily food intake and exercise routines then chances are…

calorieking

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GetUSB Dealz - 1GB Flash & 1GB SD Card Only $10.90

01.09.07 | GetUSB Dealz| Kingston| USB News | Permalink

Now until Jan 13th get a Kingston 1GB DataTraveler and 1GB Secure Digital Card for only $10.90. Free shipping and $40 and $45 mail-in rebate (respectively) and they’re in stock so these guys will cover both digital camera needs and U3 personal storage needs - at just over $10 it’s a tough deal to beat - that’s why GetUSB is bringing it to you.

kingston flash drive secure digital card

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Cardo VoIP Wireless Headset w/ Control Wheel & Locator Buzzer

01.09.07 | Audio| USB News| VoIP| Wireless | Permalink

Cardo Wireless is a premiere Bluetooth and VoIP headset manufacturer with well established lines of Scala-500 and Scala-600 wireless headsets. Cardo has just announced their Scala-700 series - although an announcement made back in August, they’ve now been able to pull off a shipping product.

scala 700

So what came of the long Cardo Wireless wait - well the drawing board produced a rotating wheel for Cardo’s SWAP technology (switch between two devices such as Skype VoIP and mobile cell phone), headset locator buzzer, battery life indicator (nice) voice dial, mute, redial, call reject, conference calling blah blah (more…)

Colorful Transcend USB Flash Drives

01.08.07 | Flash Storage| Transcend| USB News | Permalink

Tired of grey and black colored Flash drives? USB flash drives are now candy colored thanks to Transcend’s Jetflash V60.

The drives are available in four colors, with each color corresponding to a different storage capacity: orange is 512MB, blue is 1GB, red is 2GB and green is 4GB. All the Transcend drives come with basic security software including a program capable of locking your PC from prying eyes and wayward fingers alike.

A Transcend press release for the Jetflash V60 claims that “Now everyone can transfer to a paperless society.” Yes, Western civilization was just waiting for the V60 to appear in order to be convinced that a paperless society was viable.

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Is that a Switch Blade or New Lexar 360 JumpDrive?

01.08.07 | Flash Storage| Readyboost| Security| U3 Related| USB News | Permalink

Lexar announced their new Lexar JumpDrive 360 USB Flash Drive at the 2007 CES show. The new style is a capless design and encased in a rotating metal jacket you flip out before use - kinda like a switch blade.

JumpDrive 360

All Lexar drives will now ship with BitLocker Drive encryption software and Windows PE 2.0 for Vista. Of course Lexar is claiming the JumpDrive 360 is compatible with ReadyBoost, but who isn’t making that claim these days. Finally, Lexar will include their PowerToGo software on the JumpDrive 360 and all other devices, which BTW is a spit image of U3.

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U3 Flash Drives

01.06.07 | USB News | Permalink

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