Most of the time my work area resembles my brain – overflowing with useless information and only slightly coherent. While I’m convinced my brain is beyond hope, technology is making it so my work area doesn’t have to be.
If your desk looks anything like the picture below, here are 15 gadgets that’ll make your life a bit less cluttered.
No longer do you have to forget that confounded charging cable for your phone or MP3 player. flipSYNC goes where you go, well as long as you take your keys, because it folds up nicely to fit on your keychain.
There are 2 flipSYNC models: a 3 connector model (model# USBMM) with 1 micro USB, 1 mini USB and a standard USB type A connector; and a 2 connector version (model# IPUSBM) for iPhones and iPods.
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Price: $15.99 for iPhones. $17.99 for general USB devices.
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Secure USB flash drives seems to be a GfG meme these days, so it’s fitting that we review one such product in more depth.
The SAFE from Life Link International is an encrypted 2GB USB thumb drive that comes pre-loaded with over 40 forms on which you can enter personal information. The main point of The SAFE is, as the name suggests, an electronic safe to store important personal data. It isn’t really meant to be a general storage thumb drive.
Just today, I was explaining to someone why they needed to encrypt or at least password-protect their USB flash drive. There is one simple, overarching reason – if you lose it, someone else has easy access to all the data on your thumb drive, and they’re easy to lose/forget about. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey there GfG’ers – we’ve got yet another giveaway for you. This one is super useful especially for you road-warrior and/or heavy gadget users.
Here’s another emergency USB charger, this one powered by 2 AA batteries. Not a bad deal for under $10, and it includes a tiny built-in LED light for grins.
However, I can’t say I love the idea of using batteries. I’d rather have it either use a rechargeable battery or even better, be solar rechargeable (like the iTech SolarCharger).
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Price: $8.50
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
If you’d like to extend or mirror your display from your computer on multiple monitors, but you’re maxed out at 1 or2 (DVI/VGA) video outputs, then you should take a look at a USB to DVI adapter.
This particular one from Gefen plugs into any free USB port on your computer then into a standard DVI-D cable and into a monitor or other HD display/TV. You can now do things like display on resolutions up to 2048×1152, rotate your display, and use an external display as the main display of a laptop.
On Windows PCs for example, with the driver installed, you can use the standard Windows Display Properties to manipulate your display. This adapter is also compatible with Mac OS X.
It’s not cheap, especially if you want to mirror to more than 1 display (up to 6). You can also take a look on Amazon.com for similar USB to DVI adapters.
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Price: $114.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
The AlcoMate AL9000 is a light, portable alcohol breathalyzer that uses fuel cell technology for maximum accuracy. The AccuCell AL9000 does not require many re-calibrations as compared to silicon oxide chip-based breathalyzers.
It is accurate to +/-0.005% BAC and responds in less than 10 seconds. It even has internal memory and a USB interface so you can download the data to your computer for later analysis. Want to know if you have a problem?! – get an AlcoMate. It’s not cheap, but probably cheaper than getting a DUI or thrown in jail even once!
AlcoMate sells other models as well.
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Price: $235.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Do you need oh, a Terabyte of storage that you can walk around with easily. And you need it ruggedized? No problem. LaCie has you covered. The Rugged XL is an eSATA/ USB 2.0 drive with an aluminum casing, a rubber sleeve, internal bumper and heat dissipation.
I don’t totally care for the orange color, but for under $150, it’s really a deal.
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Price: $129.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
By Jennifer Jacobson of Retrevo.com
These days it’s hard to imagine a current president or world leader who isn’t connected to the internet, who doesn’t get email, and who doesn’t have a cell phone. When Barack Obama went to the White House, a BlackBerry went with him. Senators, congressmen and leaders around the world are connected by their laptops, cell phones, and various other devices but it wasn’t always like this. Our founding fathers (and mothers) had to do things the hard way. If they wanted a message delivered, someone had to deliver it by hand. If they wanted to research something, they had to find a book or an actual person who knew more than they did. If they got lost, there was no GPS device to point them in the right direction.
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