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July 2nd, 2008

6X Blu-ray Drive Made for Apple Mac

I have my personal thoughts on Blu-ray, mostly concerning its viability as a successor to DVD for pre-recorded movies, especially in the face of downloads, but there’s one area where a big optical disc is still useful: backing up large chunks of data.
MCE Technologies’ new Mac specific Blu-ray burner takes care of this. Gone is […]

By Sean R. -- 2 comments

June 30th, 2008

Maxtor’s Media Server Packs One Terabyte

You know, when I got a Sony laptop with an 80GB hard drive it seemed huge but after about five minutes of BitTorrent downloads, I realized that was naive of me.
I also realized that offloading files, especially music files, to an external drive is problematic. The point of a notebook is portability, and hooking […]

By Sean R. -- 0 comments

June 25th, 2008

Belkin USB Charger

Belkin’s latest power-strip adds a very smart feature for travelers: USB ports.

The strip has a couple of charge-only sockets along with the three-way mains AC extenders and even comes with a mini-USB cable, obviating the need to carry chargers for most gadgets.
The $25.00 USD box also squeezes in a surge-protector for those untrustworthy hotel […]

By Sean R. -- 2 comments

June 24th, 2008

Logitech Launches Mac-Only Hi-Def Webcam

It initially seems odd that Logitech would launch a Mac-only webcam: All Macs but the Mini and Pro have a built in iSight camera.
Reading the specs gives the answer — the QuickCam Vision Pro is a significant step up in performance from the built-in option.

The two megapixel Quickcam can supply 720p video via an […]

By Sean R. -- 0 comments

June 19th, 2008

Home Theater Box Contains iPod, Wii, Xbox

The ITC One from SE2 Labs resembles nothing so much as a two foot high photocopier, but inside it has just about every home entertainment gadget known to man.

The ITC One contains a 125 watt amp which is fed from a THX capable sound processor and a Netlinx controller so everything can run from […]

By Sean R. -- 3 comments

June 9th, 2008

Coin Op Wi-Fi Kiosk

Handlink’s Wi-Fi Kiosk is an admirable combination of the old and the new.
This coin-op 802.11b/g wireless access point is a throwback to better times, a golden age when the coins in your pocket were good for something other than tossing to a hobo in the street while on your way to buy a $5 […]

By Sean R. -- 3 comments

June 7th, 2008

Microdia 64GB Compact Flash Card

Microdia has announced a new Compact Flash card, the 64GB XTRA ELITE CF, which will strike fear into the heart of the stoutest photographer.
The massive 64GB CF card is the first to market, beating out Samsung, among others, and can carry 19,000 jpegs from a 20 MegaPixel camera.
Of course, that also means you’d have […]

By Sean R. -- 3 comments

June 3rd, 2008

Dangling Dongle Brings GPS to The iPhone

This rather clunky-looking Apple iPhone add-on brings real GPS to the soon-to-be-obsolete original iPhone.
Consisting a Holux M1000b GPS unit, a custom dock-connector cable and some software which requires a jailbroken iPhone to run.
Here’s a demo video below in which the GPS seems to work fine, updating your position on the iPhone’s built in […]

By Sean R. -- 2 comments

June 2nd, 2008

Asus Picture Frame As A Computer Monitor

If the tiny 7″ screen of Asus Eee PC is big enough to work on, it’s certainly big enough to act as a secondary mini-monitor for another computer. That’s exactly what Asus new UFOTO UF735 will do.
Sold in the guise of a music playing digital photo frame, the 800×480 UFOTO will also act as […]

By Sean R. -- 1 comment

May 30th, 2008

Apple Core Stops Selling TV Hacking Dongle

Apple Core is a company which sells Apple TVs with upgraded hard drives and, until yesterday, a very handy little USB stick called aTV Flash.
The thumb drive was a plug and play solution to hack your Apple TV, bringing a slew of extra features for just $60.00 USD. After restoring your Apple TV to factory […]

By Sean R. -- 3 comments