If you find your digital camera gets into that sort of situation often, that’s probably quite an attractive feature, right? In addition to withstanding 1.6-ton of weight, these three new memory cards are shock, water and magnet proof.
Out of all the awesome prizes in the Lexar prize packs we’re giving away this week, I reckon the 16GB Firefly Jump Drive is the pick. And not just because it’s named after one of my favourite TV shows, either.
The world has changed. My first digital camera – a Cybershot P9 from Sony that shot 5MP stills and cost me $1,300 (right before the bottom fell out of the digital camera market) was state of the art for its time. Nowadays, both DSLRS and compacts are shooting HD video, 10MP stills and can chew through your memory faster than my old Cybershot chewed through its included 32MB memory stick. Fortunately, memory has also changed to adapt to the growing needs of the discerning photographer, with faster read and write speeds and higher capacities. And Giz AU has partnered with Lexar to offer readers the chance to win one of 10 high capacity storage prize packs.
MicroSD cards are so prolific nowadays that it’s about time for companies to differentiate their products using cutesy designs. If you’re a 15-year-old girl, these goth- and love-themed 2GB ought to thrill.
Whoa, these are card readers? Mundane but necessary gadgets deserve essentialised designs, and SanDisk’s new ImageMate All-in-One and Multi-card look a lot like Neil Poulton’s bare, black and glossy hard drives for LaCie.
While SanDisk has made no official announcements, their 16GB MicroSD cards are popping up for sale at various internet retailers (at various prices, we might add). Ranging from $US80 to $US220 (we’d go with the $US80), prices will settle with more availability. But we’re pretty excited to toss an iPhone’s worth of flash storage into any fancy smartphone we like. Plus, whenever we pop a tiny MicroSD card into one of our gadgets, it always feels like we’re in the future. [mymemory via internettabletalk Thanks tipsters!]
100GB CF cards…. holy moly that’s huge. Pretec’s saying it’s the world’s largest capacity CF, and I’m not going to argue. It’s a 233x speed card, capable of access rates at 35MB/s and it, along with its smaller sibling, is being shown at Photokina this week. Not satisfied with that though, Pretec’s also extending its range of ultra-fast cards (apparently the world’s fastest) with 333x speed and 50MB/s data rates in 32GB and 50GB capacities. The 333x 32GB and 233x 64GB are due to ship now, for $US630 and $US400, and the 233x 100GB and 333x 50GB by the end of the year. But Pretec’s being shy about pricing those, or indeed even showing a product pic. Press release below.
Sandisk’s slotMusic cards are not much more than tweaked 1GB microSD cards with a logo and a special USB-compatible sled: but the fact that they’ll carry albums from big names like BMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group makes them interesting. They’ll also be DRM free too, which is a pleasant surprise. It’s an attempt to change the way some people buy MP3s—you’ll get a card you can slot into your mobile phone or PC with high-quality MP3s (up to 320kbps), artwork, videos and such, which you can also reuse as a 1GB memory card later, and that’s kinda handy.
