LaCie's Neil Poulton Novelty USB Box on the Cheap
Those who dig novelty storage design no longer have to bear the cost of the marked-up internal drive. LaCie recently debuted a aptly-named Box, a minimalist 3.5" SATA USB 2.0 drive enclosure featuring a cool blue LED strip on its underside. Even though the ambient LED glow doesn't do much, it has become the Neil Poulton's signature styling cues on a number of LaCie's external drives.
You also won't find any fans on the USB 2.0 Box which now relies on natural airflow to provide 'cooling' through vent holes on the bottom. For this reason, LaCie recommends using 5,400-rpm drives over 7,200-rpm counterparts. For a drive enclosure, it comes with a generous 2-year warranty with a host of software including Backup Assistant and USB Boost, promising to speed up performance by as much as 33%. The LaCie Box should be found on virtual retail shelves for $40 or below anytime now.
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Samsung TicToc Shakeable MP3 Player Suits your Orientation
No, don't worry there's nothing in Samsung's latest MP3 player that will "out" you. What you do in your own time is up to you, and whether you like show tunes or Korn this hip little player might just tickle your fancy. The TicToc player has an innovative way of making use of very little surface for buttons. The screen-less player -like the iPod shuffle - is about the size of the lid off of a tube of lipstick. There's a single button on one end and a headphone port on the other. Push the button to turn the power on. With the button facing up, hold the button to increase the volume. Turn it upside down, so that the button is facing the ground and hold, Voilà volume goes down.
Shake it like a Polaroid picture if you want to change tracks. Shake it slow, and it will queue up a slow song. Shake it quickly and it will load up a faster one. Not to be attempted in movie theaters, learn from Peewee's mistake. With the accelerometer built into the iPhone, it's a wonder Apple didn't come up with this. Many digital cameras already make use of the portrait/landscape orientation, but this is the first time we've seen it used to alter function. What will be next? Digital Cameras: Right side up is image mode, upside down is movie mode. Innovation like this is a good sign of a recovering economy; let's hope we see more of both.
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Massive S1Digital USB Carousel Gives You the 100 Disc Blu's(sic)
S1Digital has released a new 100-disc carousel disc changer for Blu-ray that is special tailored for media center PCs. This USB 2.0 Blu-ray player holds a up to 100 discs, and can pull each disc up from its cataloging software. As each disc is loaded into the carousel the software locates case art and media and downloads them into your library. This allows for a text, genre or cover art searching for the movie you want to watch. Movies can be played at will, but Blu-ray video almost maxes out USB 2.0 bandwidth, unless S1Digital moves up to USB 3.0.
Another ability this player brings is the ability to download the discs to a hard drive. Instead of leaving discs in the player, special software will rip the content to hard drive from which video can be played back. The best part is that the player can be loaded up, and told to rip your entire collection without intervention. That only works of course if your discs are DRM-less Blu-ray. Each disc can take up to an hour to load so you could fill and rip them all in about 4 days if you happen to have 3TB of storage handy. In 6 months that won't be much, but today that's still a little heavy. Also heavy is the price tag, $1500 to get this massive amount of Blu-ray content at hand.
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