Hercules XPS 35 2.0 USB Speakers Desktop Sound for Road Warriors
Hercules makes a decent line of desktop speakers for the budget or image conscious. Today, they extend their range with some very affordable travel friendly speakers, the Hercules XPS 2.0 35. These portable speakers are sleek and shiny and can almost hide in a laptop bag. They are a bit bigger speakers than what would fit comfortably in every laptop, but at the same time, they bring quality sound and volume in exchange for their slightly extra heft.
The speakers also have VoIP capabilities. The front of the slim speakers bear a volume control and microphone jack. Plug in a microphone and you can chat via Skype or any other VoIP sessions. The speakers are USB powered and don't require any drivers at all. Once you're done with them just unplug the USB cable and pack them up. The best feature of all is that these little guys are retailing for only $20. At this rate, you can afford to have a couple of them and get rid of a bunch cables and power supplies. Hercules should have XPS 2.0 35 speakers in stores in June of this year.
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Shockproof LaCie Rugged HDD Goes SuperSpeed USB
LaCie Rugged already has the looks and now, the speed. Resembling an inflated life raft, the Neil Poulton-designed external USB 3.0 hard drive beats all other variants of the same series, including ones with eSATA and FireWire 800. The Rugged's rubber bumpers surrounding aluminum drive provides cushion that makes the drive drop resistant up to 2.2m. The Rugged comes with orange sleeve as standard, but you can swap with green-grey, blue-grey or black at $19.99 apiece.
Being a mobile USB 3.0 hard drive, the LaCie Rugged tops at 110MB/s, at which speed is mostly handicapped by the 7,200-rpm 500GB drive. On the back of the drive, there's a familiar auxiliary jack for powering the Rugged should it connect to a USB 2.0 port, and there's also the new micro-USB 3.0. The software bundle isn't anything to write home about, in contrast to Seagate USB 3.0 BlackArmor. Last but not least, LaCie includes 10GB Wuala cloud storage 1-year subscription along with 2-year warranty.
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