Press Release

PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 6, 2009)

Today LaCie, in collaboration with world-famous designer Philippe Starck, announced the LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive and the LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive. The new products showcase more than just Starck’s iconic signature; there is an intellect revealed throughout each component of the design.

From Philippe Starck: “Technological genius explodes exponentially, each time with incredible power whose limits are yet to be known. The power remains, never abating, symbolically characterized by the sculptural magma that one attempts to cleave, to master within this geometrically perfect strongbox. A symbol of strength mastered, of freedom guided, of incandescent magma heeding to the form of its cast. The interpretation is free. But the mystery remains.”

Here is the YouTube video of the full interview with Philippe Starck.

Complementing Starck’s design philosophy is an intelligent surface that responds to your

It’s not everyday you see a Rubik’s cube USB hack to house a USB flash drive. It’s not everyday you get a sexy sounding lady explaining how she did the mod either. But here we have exactly that. I’m a bit disappointed with the lack of info on how she did it, but none the less, a good 1.20sec time killer.

Source: Youtube.com

Check out the latest on-line commercial from IOGear.  The commercial concept is a question about your monitor shrinking in size when viewing content on-line…now you can stream from your PC to your flat screen or project from the IOGear wireless USB audio video kit.  The only thing they forgot to mention is the critical step of clean streaming content during viewing from your cable modem…ya right.

Interested, check out the latest prices from Amazon.

It’s not often you can merge the terms USB and Rock Star together. I can’t picture one scenario…but Intel can – and did. Here is their 20 second promo on USB technology. Funny, classic funny.

Source: DailyCupOfTech.

It’s not often you need a USB spy camera, but when you do, this is a quick and easy method.  The setup is putting a USB camera into your hoodie pocket then running the camera from your laptop stuffed in a computer bag.  The situation reminds me of a perfect setup for college days where you need to video a test or capture some funny footage at a party.

Plenty of applications for this type of setup, check it out.

Corsair put an interesting twist on backup technology.  They have devised a one touch USB flash drive backup adapter.  The adapter has a female USB port sitting on the top of the device.  This is where you can plug in any flash drive.  The adapter then connects to your PC via miniUSB cable.

At this point, the USB backup adapter is ready to suck information off your PC and stuff it onto your flash drive, with the push of a single button.

Of course you need to set some configuration options in the NovaBackUp software, but once set – you’re ready at any moment.

“Our research indicated that over 80% of users have a My Documents folder of less than 64GB, and more than 85% need to regularly transport less than 64GB of data between different PCs. This shows that USB flash drives are an efficient method of backing up your data, and with high-capacity USB flash drives, there is still plenty of room for your favorite music, photos and even movies,” said Jim Carlton, Corsair’s vice president of marketing.

This is also an excellent marketing tool to encourage users to break away from their 2 year old 1GB drives and saddle up for a larger 16GB, 32GB or 64GB flash drive.

I for one, am a lazy backer-upper and a device like this might encourage me to be more vigilante about data backups.

The Corsair USB backup adapter has an MSRP of $35.

Corsair product page.

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