Kensington PowerBolt Duo Car USB Charger is iPad & iPhone Ready
As the iPad gains in popularity, one of its biggest annoyances is readily addressed by Kensington. The aptly-named PowerBolt Duo car charger has two USB ports for charging 2 devices, one full power 2.1A port and one 1A port. The iPad is currently the only device we're aware of that requires the 2 amp power in order to charge. iPad users will certainly be delighted that they can charge both their iPad and iPhone or iPod at the same time.
The iPad is certainly gaining popularity, and the second coming of the tablet is just around the corner. While the power consumption of the iPad was initially seen as excessive, the new larger multifunction devices will require more power or will not be able to charge with USB. Requiring more power from our sources is a actually a small sacrifice for the survival of all of the micro-USB charging cables and connection accessories. Perhaps the slew of larger more power hungry devices will shepherd the adoption of the USB 3.0 standard as it generally has plenty of power to handle the more mature devices we see arriving. The Kensington PowerBolt Duo car charger fits snugly in your car cigarette lighter socket and the $29.99 asking price should fit snugly within anyone's budget. Get yours ordered now from their online store.
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Android-powered Archos 32 Serves Froyo Media Player on the Cheap
Archos, maker of tablet based multimedia players, has added a new unbelievably affordable version of its audio/video players. The Archos 32 Internet Tablet is built around their usual touchscreen handheld hardware with an Android 2.2 OS core. Their media playing software dominates the devices providing playback of all the favorite mobile formats of audio and most of the choice video varieties as well on its 400x240 screen. Comparing well with the rest of their lineup, the Archos 32 boasts 44 hours of audio playback and about 10 of video on a full charge. The Archos 32 also has many of the fun options of Android life like Internet access, email and some social media apps. Archos has a scaled down version of the App Market with mostly Archos apps, but that may change over time. If you have ever considered a video player outside of an iPod touch, then you are already familiar with Archos. Unfortunately until today, all video players were well beyond what most folks were willing to pay, easily passing $400 at the minimum. Besides being a very enticing media player, at $149 this is likely the cheapest you can get your hands on an Android device. We can see throngs of mobile app developers clamoring to get their hands on them. At this price point, the underground development community is likely to embrace this handheld. That being said, you shouldn't have to wait very long for some home brew applications to arrive and enhance these wonderful gadgets without having to sell your soul to Apple.
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Jargy Uses SuperSpeed Juice to Make a Mobile Bus-powered USB 3.0 RAID
Besides the increased bandwidth, USB 3.0 brings an extra helping of power to help manufacturers like Jargy provide us with great new mobile devices. The bus-powered USB 3.0 2.5" RAID Box is a great example of things to come. It's nothing new in that it's a RAID enclosure (like the recently announced LaCie 2Big) built for laptop class hard drives but it hass been cut loose of its shackles and can now run solely on USB 3.0 power. The opportunity for slick uses is exploding with the availability of SSD drives for speed and stability. You could make an ultra stable portable drive in the RAID-1 (mirror) configuration or a super fast RAID-0 (striped) drive. While the striped configuration is less durable, the addition of SSD shock resistance should more than cancel out the added risk of failure. This might make a great way to shuttle VHDs from home to work and vice-versa. This might also eliminate your need for a laptop altogether and let you reduce the load in your carry-on bag. Filling this up with Sandforce-enabled SSDs may also be the only way you will get to fully use the 5Gbps bandwidth of USB 3.0. Even the fastest SATA drives are only able to handle 'most' of the full pipe. Made in Taiwan, you will probably need to start checking sites like Brando for availability which is unknown at this time.
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