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Peripherals
Lightning Review: Griffin Simplifi iPod-iPhone Dock/Card Reader/USB Hub
8:00AM John Mahoney | The Gadget: Griffin’s Simplifi dock for iPod or iPhone, which aims to de-clutter your desk by tossing in a reader for CF, SD, XD and Memory Stick Pro cards and a two-port powered USB 2.0 hub. The right kind of convergence. galleryPost('simplifidock', 3, ''); More »
Regulars
Giz Explains: An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Memory Card You Need
4:00AM Matt Buchanan | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/An_Illustrated_Guide_to_Every_Stupid_Memory_Card_You_Need'; High on the list of gadget annoyances that make me want to scab my eyes out with a spork—just below cables and batteries—is the unfettered proliferation of memory cards. Even though they all fundamentally do the same thing—store data for handheld devices—they come in a million different sizes and shapes from almost as many companies, giving birth to retarded but necessary accessories. Anyone looking for proof of this can stop at the 80-in-1 card reader. Unfortunately, many of these dumb pieces of silicon and plastic aren’t going extinct. As a consolation prize, here’s an illustrated guide to all the ones you actually need to know. More »
Peripherals
A-DATA Turbo Series CF 350X Is the World’s Fastest Compact Flash Card
7:30AM Jason Chen | A-DATA’s Turbo Series CF card is 350X, which gets you a 52MB/sec read and 47MB/sec write, and comes in 8 and 16GB sizes. It’s the fastest Compact Flash card in the world, which is made out of Single-Level-Cell (SLC) flash memory, and has dual-channel support. [A-Data] More »
Peripherals
Microdia to Release (”FIRST!”) 64GB CompactFlash Card
10:45PM Mark Wilson | While several companies are working on a 64GB CompactFlash card, Microdia will be the first to actually bring the technology to store shelves (in Australia) this month. Dubbed the Microdia 64GB XTRA ELITE CF, the card features super fast 45MB/second read and write speeds and promises to hold somewhere around 19,000 high resolution JPEGs from a 20MP camera. No word on price yet. Read on for the full press release. More »
Peripherals
Century DIY SSD Now Goes Up to 2TB (in Theory)
8:09PM Gizmodo US Edition | While both Intel and Samsung are promising big drops in SSD prices by the year’s end for now they still cost plenty. Unless you want to take the DIY route, and use this nifty gizmo from Century which uses compact flash cards for storage. The new version now accepts CF 3x cards and can create drives between 2GB and a crazy (and impossible, for now) 2TB in size. So you could buy a pair of 32GB CF cards for around US$270, add in US$192.57 for the DIY drive and you’d have a 64GB SATA SSD for about US$460— less than half the cost of the 64GB MacBook Air’s drive. Not bad, eh? Available from May 1st. [GeekStuff4U via Akihabaranews] More »
Cameras
Delkin ImageRouters Can Dump 8 CF Cards At Once
2:30AM Matt Buchanan | Delkin’s ImageRouter is for photographers who are in need of some serious dumpage, and fast. The basic unit lets you unload four Compact Flash cards simultaneously. The thing takes up about as much room as the Xbox 360’s power brick, though fortunately it doesn’t weigh a metric tonne. If you want to get stupid ridiculous, you can daisy-chain two blocks together onto the powered USB port to handle a total of eight CF cards. Unfortunately the software doesn’t work for Macs yet, so if you plugged it into one you’d just see four separate drives, killing the convenience factor of dumping about a million photos at once. It’s US$149 w/o software, jumping to $249 with the Windows-only utility. [Product Page] More »
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SanDisk CompactFlash Goes Gold
4:20AM Seamus Byrne | You won’t care much about storage space if you’re lucky enough to win one of these cards. They’re the grand prize in SanDisk’s Hong Kong contest. All you gotta do is buy the real deal, scratch off some numbers on the packaging, and if you win, you get these little nuggets of gold. So how much will they fetch you? About five grand US currency. Not enough to retire, but enough to make me wish I lived in Hong Kong. – Louis Ramirez SanDisk Gives Gold Memory Cards Away in Contest [Everything USB] More »
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