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USB Card Reader shaped like the ‘Ctr” and ‘Enter’ keyboard keys

Computers, Gizmo of the Day / By Khalid Hosein / December 4, 2009

This is cute. It’s a USB card reader that is shaped like and labeled as the “Ctrl” and “Enter” keys. It’s a totally functional card reader that supports SD, micro SDHC, MicroSD, Sony M2, Memory Stick, and MS duo cards as well as MicroSD/T-Flash/Micro SDHC and Sony M2 cards. It is USB 2.0 compatible and is about the size of a small USB thumb drive.

It comes in white, black and navy blue and is cheap enough to fill those Christmas stockings.

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Price: $12.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Split Stick – 2 Flash Drives In One

Gizmo of the Day, Portable / By William Appleyard / August 28, 2009

Some ‘crazy’ people over at quirky.com have designed a flash drive they named the Split Stick. This is a 2GB, double-ended flash drive that allows you to switch between 2 different memory units by sliding a button along, separating your work from leisure or whatever else it may be that you choose to keep separate.

The units are available in a variety of colors and can be etched with a symbol on each side of the stick to help remember which section is which – you don’t want to be opening up your holiday snaps at work! The price is also very attractive for such a unique product at $24.99 but it is still in the development stage.

This product just leaves me with one question – wouldn’t it have been a lot easier and cost effective to simply partition a 4GB drive?

Preorder now!

Price: $24.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Gardenwatch Cam – watch your garden grow from your desk

Gizmo of the Day, Tools, DIY, Home, Office / By William Appleyard / July 14, 2009

The Gardenwatch Cam is a snappy little innovation that lets you record your garden growing by taking pictures at predetermined intervals (standard ones are 1 min, 5 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours or set your own!) in JPEG format, and them playing them back to you in a Discovery Channel-style long exposure movie.

The pictures are taken with a 1.3MP camera and stored on an 8GB internal memory. All-in-all it’s quite an interesting product, and might brighten up your desktop with some amazing photos of the plants and the sunrise that you just wouldn’t be awake for otherwise.

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Price: $139.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

USB Robot Flash Drive

Gaming & Toys, Gizmo of the Day / By William Appleyard / July 10, 2009

Novelty USB flash drives are always popular – you think of it, it has probably been made! This little find is a rather cute retro robot that also serves as a 1GB flash drive – simply pop his head off to reveal a USB plug, plug him into the computer and away you go. To make this product even cuter, his eyes light up when files are being transferred! He comes in blue, green and black and special editions might be released in the future.

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Price: $15.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Add Some Bling To Your Memory Stick

Miscellaneous / By Jason Slater / May 6, 2009

Take a good look at your memory stick? What does it say about you? Why should it be just a single colour or have a little flashing light as its only stand-out factor?

If you like something a little more personal I recently found a memory stick with a little more sparkle – read more about it in Fed Up With A Boring Looking USB Memory Stick?

What is the best memory stick you have seen recently?

Article Recap for the Week Ending Apr 24, 2009

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Gaming & Toys, Gizmo of the Day, Networking & Internet, Portable, Software / By William Appleyard / April 25, 2009

Here are some of our notable articles for the past week. First we pondered whether Twitter’s popularity would last. Google News now has a Timeline of Events – nice feature.

We noticed that YouTube were looking to accept full length and legal content, while Fuijitsu have developed some secure new memory sticks. Adobe announced their plans to integrate Flash technology with TVs.

Oracle is picking up where IBM left off, buying out Sun for around $7 billion. That’s a lot of Rubik’s Cube Clocks!

ReQall – Give Yourself A Brain Extension

Gizmo of the Day, GPS, Portable, Software / By William Appleyard / April 21, 2009

ReQall is a very nice piece of to-do software; it allows you to make a to-do with reminders via a wide range of media. When setting yourself a to-do note, you can call their toll free number and dictate the note (using voice recognition software), text the note, instant message (IM) the note, send via a Firefox extension and by applications available for many phones (including of course iPhones and Blackerrys).

There is integration with Google Calendar & Outlook, sharing of items with other people, and the premium version even has location-aware reminders (ex: you go to the supermarket and want to be reminded to buy milk).

The basic version is free and the Pro version is $2.99/month or $24.99 a year – a real bargain for what you get.

Fujitsu Develop Data-Erase USB Memory Sticks

Computers, Gizmo of the Day, Portable, Software / By William Appleyard / April 20, 2009

Fujitsu have just announced their latest memory security device; one that erases the data after a certain time period and also has the ability to block users from copying the files from the memory stick to a PC. Perfect if you’ve had your memory stick with confidential files on lost or stolen (something that that would probably be welcomed in the UK).

No word on pricing or availability yet, but hit the link to find out all the gory details: Read more.