USB X-Ray Reader for Dentists and Little Bones
UXSight has a new scanner that is finely tuned to work with pictures of your pearly whites. Working with X-ray films about 2 by 2 inches, this little unit, powered exclusively by USB can enlarge and capture images from standard X-rays. You can interact with them on the screen or just convert them to images for later review. Images can be viewed at up to 50x magnification without loss of fidelity.
This is a consumer class version of what your dentist has already. The effluence of this technology will make it easier to start carrying your own personal medical information with you or online. You'll likely want to couple this new ability with some serious encryption for privacy. So smile big for the dentist and get a few wallet sized prints of those choppers and put the rest on a flash drive to go. Amateur dentists and X-ray-tech hobbyists (do those exist?) can order one of these for $145 once they come off back order.
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SPHEREtouch Stainless Steel, Titanium & Platinum Mouse Looks Like a Pinball
Looking more like a pinball on a tether, the SPHEREtouch mouse isn't really designed for retro gaming nostalgia. This highly polished laser mouse ball is a unique sight to behold. Available in satin finished stainless steel, titanium and platinum, they are a little pricey, but definitely make a classy minimalist statement. OreObject's creation has mouse buttons that are part of the smooth form, complemented by its ceramic base which should make for a nearly frictionless contact with your desk.
The price is the only thing that is not so smooth here. Starting at $155 for stainless steel and up to $225 for the platinum plated finish, it's hard to justify for what is probably an uncomfortably small mouse. While there's no denying the slick polish and finish actual use would leave fingerprints all over it. They do include a micro-fiber cloth for cleaning it but it seems like you'll be doing that a lot if you really want to show it off. If you have a strong compulsion for this ball bearing mouse you can get it at their online store.
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Kingston Presses on with its Highest Security Flash Drive Yet
Unfettered by recent setbacks to certain drive models, Kingston puts out another line of secure flash drives, the Data Traveler 5000. Obtaining a FIPS 140-2 level 2 certification already, the drive's data has been secured and hardware encrypted to high government standards. The drives also manage to fold in anti-spyware software as well. The advanced functions of this drive are accomplished with a dual partition similar to that of U3. The first partition is read-only and loads the encryption software and, if successfully authenticated, mounts and decrypts the AES-256 encrypted data partition. One of the most overlooked problems with personal encryption standards is brute force password hacking. If someone gets a previous-gen drive, eventually a password can be guessed by simple scripting programs. This might take time but fast computers can make quick work of most passwords. Not true for the DataTraveler 5000 drives, 10 unsuccessful password attempts and the encryption key is destroyed and the data becomes almost completely unrecoverable.
The Data Traveler 5000 is also waiting to get its FIPS 140-2 level 3 certification, which rival IronKey S200 has already obtained earlier. It should be just a matter of testing time for the tamper evident features of the drive to receive passing marks. Special seals on the drives clearly show whether the drive has been altered while out of your sight. This sealing may also contribute to the fact that the drive is also waterproof. There's definitely a premium to be paid for this level of security. The drives range from $111 to $400 for drives only having 2 to 16GB of storage. This is about 10 times the price of normal drives but many companies are finding out that their secrets are worth many times more than that.
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iBin Protects Your Files on Flash Drives from Accidental Deletions
As many of us have sadly found out, the Recycle Bin, temp storage for deleted files, doesn't work for flash drives. Delete a file on a flash drive and decide you need it later and there's a good chance you are SOL. Standard Windows drives are protected, yet network and flash drives are not. iBin is an Autohotkey script that can be run off of your flash drive to protect any of the files from accidental deletion. Run this program and any files that are intentionally deleted are moved into a user configurable space on the flash drive and kept until the space is needed. This extra recycle bin can be managed from the application and emptied or expanded as you see fit. All deleted files stay on the drive even when moved from computer to computer.
There are other ways to recover some deleted files from flash drives, but most of those only work if the space doesn't get reused. Also note that this only protects files that you manually delete, files that get deleted by other programs or processes they won't be picked up. Check out the parent project AutoHotKey for a huge variety of programs. AutoHotkey and AutoIt are very handy scripting programs that have a very active user community turning out dozens of very handy script-lets like spell checking and a slick program launcher. Besides being free and open source, AutoHotkey is perfectly portable, easily running from a flash drive. Come up with a script you really like, the included compiler allows you to turn it into a stand-alone executable. Pick up iBin here and AutoHotkey for your own dabblings here.
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