New Kingston USB Drive with in built MicroSD card Reader

How easy will be the life if the USB drive that you carry everywhere has a MicroSD card reader also? For cell phone centred guys this would be the most exciting news in the recent past. This could be a breakthrough in integration of technology to store, transfer and read content on mobile memory cards.

The peculiarity of this card is that it provides a unified smart solution for reading different card formats running in different mobile devices. This new Kingston Data Traveler Micro USB Drive and microSD Card Reader features:

• Windows ReadyBoost enabled
• Up to 4GB of onboard flash storage
• Can read microSD, microSDHC, or M2 cards.
• Comes in 1GB, 2GB and 4 GB

The 1GB version will be shipped this month while the bigger ones may be on sale later. The prices are like 1GB for $19.25, 2GB for $28.95 and the 4GB for $42.00

USB Camera to Revive Your Analog Camera Skills

To show off your photographic skill now you don’t need any high-end camera with umpteen resolution. Here is a tiny USB camera that will just prove your photographic sense and the response time like in analog ones with the ease of USB transfer. If that was like a bang on to your head, dive in for details.

The tiny USB camera from Eazzzy beares no LCD screen, no viewfinder and nothing except a lens, click button and some flash memory. And this simplicity is the highlighted feature of this stripped down camera. The captured photos can be transferred instantly to your pc through the USB port.

Having no cables extends its portability further. This mini USB Digital Camera combines the feeling of not knowing how your shots turned out like in analog era with the ease of USB transfer.

This is now in the concept phase and let it become commercially available for a detailed hands-on review.

USB Smart Pen To Record Your Work on The Go

If you are a journalist it may happen that while jotting down the short scripts you may miss out something important in the conversation. Of course a sound recorder can help you out to play the whole once again. But what if there could be a better device that could save the surrounding sound and the written stuff also?

Livescribe has come up with a smart pen that records your write up and the surrounding sound. This pen comes with an integrated Infrared camera and two noise-cancelling microphones embedded in the pen chassis. For effective recording and play back, the pen’s body comprises of ARM processor, built-in speakers, headphone jack and OLED display.

The 250 MB memory space will be able to store all reasonably sized recordings. And for further detailed reference you can transfer the contents of the pen to the computer via a simple USB connection. The functionality of this smart pen includes language translation also (Current version offers support to Mandarin, Spanish and Arabic only).

The smart pen comes with a book of microdot papers that are required for the working of pen. Three versions of Smart Pen will be available varying in the memory capacity- 250 MB, 1GB and 2GB for a price of $99, $149, $199 respectively, with a maximum storage of 200 hours. An extra microdot book will cost you $5.

This would be extremely useful for graduate student who can then miss out nothing from a lecture. For the seekers, this smart pen will be commercially available in March.

USB Chameleon

Here comes a lively mate for your pc - A colourful cute looking chameleon that can do lots of pranks at you.

This little buddy can roll its eyes and stick its tongue out randomly. It can bend its arms, legs and tails. The vibrant coloured chamy [:-D, Isnt that a nice name?] is powered via the USB.

The chamy is compatible with any OS. You can make home for this pet for just $34.50.

Diamond Studded USB Drive to Show Up Your Wealth

If you are searching for a Valentine gift for your geeky girlfriend, this could be the best one available so far. A diamond encrusted USB drive can really show how much you love her.

This USB drive is extra ordinary with its beauty. Made out of Hallmarked platinum and 456 white diamonds crafted by hand can tell how much worth it is. Named as ICE, this exclusive jewellery is from mii STOR.

This elegant, brilliantly made up ICE USB drive is available on request only. If you want to own or gift it be ready to spend $29,000.

Diamond Encrusted USB ICE Costs More than $30K

If you thought USB drives are cheap, think again! Because this USB drive costs nothing less than USD 30K.

This USB drive named ICE is made of Hallmarked platinum and is encrusted with 456 white diamonds.

The USB ICE drive is built by miiSTOR of UK in association with SanDisk for those special computer geeks who have lots of money to spend on such an USB drive.

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The Loop Memory Drive

Typically I am not a fan of the wearable USB drives, they usually feature overly shiny and obnoxious designs. However, this new USB drive is plenty sleek and features nice clean lines. No, it will never be deemed high fashion, however, it doesn’t look gaudy or cheap either. Plus your USB drive being on a necklace means that you’re less likely to lose it. Which is always a bonus when you use it on regular basis.

They come in either orange or white, so if you are a major fan of brightly colored items you’re in luck with this flash drive. The chunky ring would make it easy to hold onto to insert or remove it from your computer. It would also make it an odd enough shape that if it were in the bottom of your purse you could easily feel it out from the rest of the items. They come with 2GB of storage for $59. Which seems a bit steep for 2GB, but wouldn’t it be a convenient drive to own.

Ridata EZ Yego USB Flash Drive with Two Additional USB Ports

Are you tired of your desktop or laptop for not having enough USB ports? Then this cool looking Yego drives can at least help you to double your number of USB ports.

Ridatat EZ Yego drive feature two additional USB ports apart from providing regular storage facility.

This fun looking USB flash drive also has LED light indicators to tell you which ports are in use. Other than these features, this drive is pretty much similar to any other USB flash drives in the market.

Yego drives are available in 6 colors and with a capacity of 1GB, 2GB & 4GB.

Text Spy – Read Deleted SMS Instantly

Quite often you may delete an important message accidentally. Those who can’t recollect the message content, here is a deleted sms reader to your rescue.

The text spy consists of a USB SIM card reader and a reader software. What you have to do is just insert your GSM SIM in the reader and plug it into the USB port of your pc after installing the reader software.

The reader program is simple and easily understandable. The program will present you with reports that will show the recently deleted messages in your sim. This gadget can retrieve 10-20 of the recently deleted messages depending on the properties of service network.

You can own this text spy for £99.99.

USB “Pen” Drive for Smart Business Deals

If you are a business man and is looking for something innovative and useful, here is a multifunctional ball point pen. More than being the best pen to sign off business deals, this one can take care of all your data and manage the business presentations efficiently.



The rear end of the pen houses a 4GB USB drive. The laser pointer at the tip of the pen helps you present your business discussions in the smartest way possible. The beauty of this laser pointer is that you can charge it via USB, cropping down the hassle of search for the tiny batteries in the stores.




This pen is a master piece of Narae Inter and can be yours for $100.

SanDisk’s USB Flash Drive with Automatic Internet Storage

SanDisk, the leader in memory related products just introduced a new kind of USB flash drive that automatically back up your data and store them on the web.

This new memory stick, Cruzer Titanium Plus USB flash drive will back-up your digital content from the device to Amazon.com’s storage servers. Another company BeInSync, who uses Amazon.com services for storage, powers this feature of Cruzer flash drive.

The initial step involves activating your online storage account and then whenever you update the drive’s content on an internet enabled PC, your content will be automatically stored on to your auto storage account.

SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus costing $60 comes with a storage capacity of 4GB and free storage service for first 4 months, after that you have to pay $30 / year for further usage.

Note: SanDisk also offers flash drives without this facility.

Lock Your Computer With Kidsafe

Kidsafe locks down the computer access in the most simplest and secure way. It’s very reliable and convenient than passwords. Though password appears to be very secure, they can be easily cracked or guessed by your loved ones.

After installation, it will always ask for the key to unlock your computer. Thus you can be assured that all your important data won’t get corrupted by your kids. The Kidsafe gadget can be plugged in via the USB port.

The beauty of kidsafe program is that it cannot be destroyed or uninstalled. It will stop booting your computer in safe mode also. Kidsafe will prevent booting the computer with bootable devices or cds. In essence, it can safeguard your computer from all possible access attempts by your kid.

Buy kidsafe for $60 now and protect your computer and kids.

USB Sim Card Reader

How annoying is it to write down hundreds of contact details in your mobile to your phone book? Well, you will realise it once your phone goes missing. For those who are looking for a smarter back up system here is a USB Sim Card Reader. Thanks a bunch for the inventors of this Sim Card Reader.

This simple USB Sim Card Reader can transfer all data on your mobile to your pc instantly. With this gadget you can easily edit or add contacts to the sim through the pc itself.

This ultra modern sim card reader allows you to back up several sim cards to one location. The back up process saves all information on the sim including passwords, address book and SMS messages.

This useful USB sim card reader comes along with a PC phonebook that helps you keep all the contact details perfectly. This amazing gadget works with any computer running on Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP that supports a USB 1.1 interface.

The CD that comes along contains all required software. The sim card reader spreads out to a dimension of 6 x 2.5 x 1.2cm and hence is quite handy. You can get this useful gadget by spending just $23.31.

Slim G4-Optical Mouse gets as thin as a business card

For those who would love to carry a mouse of your own to anywhere you go, here is a thin one that fits in your pocket. This business card sized mouse is quite handy and can be easily operated.

This extra ordinary optical mouse is from Evergreen and is just 5 mmm thick. These mice are available in 4 exciting colours viz- White, Silver, Blue and Pink. Which one is your choice?

Operating this mouse, Slim G4 is quite simple. You just need to pull the flap back and turn it upside down to mimic any other optical mouse with two buttons.

The Slim G4 is designed to fit well in a PCMIA slot where it can be stored. Isn’t that a damn cool mouse?

Ion USB Cassette Deck - New Life for Audio Cassettes

Finally here is some good news for the unattended audio cassettes lying somewhere in your rack. This USB Cassette Deck from Think Geek converts the old recordings to mp3 format. Surely this lets you enjoy the recorded voices of your childhood days in an easier way.

The Ion USB Cassette deck is the best available one to convert your old vinyl records to digital format. The conversion rate is quite fast and there is only negligible loss in clarity. The dual dubbing cassette deck can be easily connected to PC or Mac through the USB port to write it on a CD.

The features include:

• Quickly transfer music on your tapes to MP3 format on your computer
• Dual dubbing cassette deck
• LED Audio Level Indicators
• “A” Deck for cassette playback only. “B” Deck can play and record.
• Copy from one cassette to another at regular or high-speed
• Metal and CrO2 tape selector
• PC and Mac compatible
• Audacity (Mac and PC) and EZ Tape Converter (PC) recording software included
• Plug and Play USB compatibility with both Windows (XP, 2000, Vista) and Mac OS X
• Packaged with all necessary cables to interconnect with both a computer and stereo playback system

This USB cassette deck is on sale at Think Geek for $99.99. Enjoy the freedom to recreate recorded voices in the audio cassettes right at your own home.

USB Christmas Tree

Those who plan to decorate your office or home desk for this Christmas here is an idea - A blinking Christmas tree that could make you famous in the office.

This special decorative Christmas tree blinks every while, changing its colour to green, red, blue and purple. Boost up your festive mood by plugging this joyous Christmas tree into your computers USB port.

This bright desk decorator can be plugged into any computer (any Operating System also) having a spare USB port. The tiny Christmas tree weighs around 100g and has a dimension of 10×7x7 cms to fit any desk.

Make it a cheerful desk by adorning with this bright lively Christmas tree. This amazing desk decorator is on sale at the Gadget Shop for $14.

USB Multimedia Remote Controller

Haven’t you wished for a remote controller to move to next song in the playlist? It’s indeed irritating to get to your pc each time to adjust the singing volume. For those irritated folks, here is a remote controller which takes over all multimedia operations on your pc or laptop.

This multimedia remote controller is very similar to Front Row for Mac. This one for Windows PCs allows you to play songs, flip photos, present your power point slides and watch DVD from a distance of maximum 30 feet.

This USB media remote also features:

• Arrow, Enter, Back and Page keys to navigate Windows Media Center and give PowerPoint presentations.
• Volume Controls to crank the volume up and down in any Windows Program. E.g. PowerPoint, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Power DVD, Winamp…
• Media Controls to Play, Pause, Fast Forward and Rewind videos, DVD, live and recorded TV, even music.

This remote is never lost and is easily available as it is stored right inside your laptop in the PCMCIA slot. The design of the controller makes it protrude slightly from the slot making it easy to pull out.

This USB remote control offers support to Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and ME. You can even set the function of a key as one of your choice. The remote is powered by Lithium battery and comes with a dimension of 85.8×54.2×5.0mm. You can own this multimedia remote for $30 from USB Geek.

LaCie USB Hub

Haven’t you felt that the USB hub should look more stylish than contemporary designs? Especially one that goes well with your hi-end gadgets and at the same time adorns your pc!

LaCie provides you the best solution. The new model LaCie USB 2.0 is purely USB unlike the previous version that mixed up USB and FireWire ports. The new hub can accommodate almost all type of gadgets available now. The latest model includes four type A female, 2 type mini B male and a single type A male allowing in total of 7 USB connections.

The awesome design has a spherical base that permits a back and forth wobbling. LaCie owes the fashionable look to French designer Ora-Ïto. The mind blowing USB hub comes with a price list of $79. If you would like to go for USB/FireWire model then you need to spend an additional $10.

USB Lighter - Lights up Cigarette with out Flames

Now the popularity of USB extends to Cigar Lighters. You can light up your cigarette with Kool, the Flameless USB Lighter. Thanks to Nathan Gabriele who designed this USB powered lighter.

The speciality of this lighter is that it lights up cigarette by using resistance coils to create heat. Hence it is flameless and very handy unlike fluid filled lighters. The lighting up technology is already in use in car lighters.

Coming to the awesome design, one end of the gadget is a lighter and other end a USB port. The compact design demands to push down the lighter to get the USB port revealed for recharging the battery inside.

Apart from lighting up your cigars, this cool gadget can do data transfer with the internal flash memory. This multifunctional gadget lets you save money for any one of the product. Even if you are a non-smoker this amazing gadget should find a place in your gadget collection.

Thumb Drives of Terabyte Capacity

Arizona State University has developed a storage technology that could drive million chunks of data in to a single disk. This technology is Branded as Programmable Metallization Cell. According to the research head this technology is cheaper and more energy efficient than flash memory.

This new technology is expected to replace the Flash memory. Flash memory that features large current eventually degrades the cells making it non-writable. Unlike Flash memory, The Programmable Metallization Cell (PMC) has longer-life and also read/write process is almost reversible.

This new storage technology stands of its own as it is not built upon any existing one.