Flipit and Forget it. USB Wall Charger that Needs No Wiring Skills
Recently we brought word to you on the what is easily one of the coolest USB charging devices available: the U-Socket. Unfortunately, as some of you pointed out, needing to mess around with wires and removing a plug can be a bit daunting. For anyone not up to the task of a simple electrical wiring job, comes news of another great alternative: the Flipit! USB Charger. The Flipit! USB Charger also allows you to charge darn near any of your USB devices without needing expensive or bulky wall adapters, but unlike the U-Socket this bad boy simply adapts an already in use plug to work as a converter. While this is certainly a heck of a lot easier (and most likely safer as the adapter looks to be insulated... but we do wonder) there are a couple major caveats worth pointing out on the Flipit! USB Charger. The biggest of this is you need to have a typical 120V device already plugged into the wall outlet for this to work as it leaches power off the plugs two prongs. This means you need a secondary device plugged in for this to work! This certainly is not a deal breaker, but what may just be one is the fact that the Flipit! USB Charger is only rated for a miserly 750mA (that is only 3.75W)! This is certainly not enough to charge high drain devices such as an iPad and really is kinda lame. If neither of these issues are deal breakers the Flipit! USB Charger is available for purchase now and goes for about $16.
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iodd USB Case Brings ISO Virtual Drives to the Masses
While external hard drives, external optical drives and even external enclosures are a dime a dozen the iodd 2501 Portable Virtual ROM is not just another external enclosure. The iodd 2501 Portable Virtual ROM is a 2.5-inch hard drive enclosure that emulates a CD/DVD drive! Yes, with this bad boy, there is no need to fire up Daemon Tools and mount a "virtual drive" as it does all the heavy lifting for you! This certainly will be great news for all you PC gamers who like to backup their disks to a drive and run the game via the hard drive for faster load times (as fast as ODDs are... hard drives are just simply faster) even if the draconian DRM makes you have the "disk" mounted all the time! To use the iodd 2501 Portable Virtual ROM, all you need do is install your own 2.5" hard drive into the enclosure, load the ISO files you want to use and then using the built in file section switch mount which every ISO you want. As far as your computer (and the DRM software) is concerned it's a "CD/DVD/Blu-Ray" drive that has the proper files on it! This really is brilliant and with an asking price of about only $65 it is sure to make a great gift for any hard core gamer that refuses to use STEAM or software solutions like Daemon Tools! Let’s just hope the company has plans to release a USB 3.0 version.
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LaCie Galet USB Silver Plated Drive is Chic for the Uptown Geek
We're often very pleased with LaCie's attempts to make technology into art. They have been known to go a little Andy Warhol from time to time but the Galet USB drive is sublime. Looking like a beach pebble and a fancy pocket watch gave birth, the Galet USB flash drive longs to be in your pockets. Plated in french silver and polished by hand, these special edition drives are the dream child of silver craftsmen Christofle. Gorgeous but not exactly practical, the flash memory that LaCie uses is above average but not super fast. Speed won't be much of a problem on the conspicuously small 4GB of storage. Granted that should be plenty of room for your apropos Silverchair or Tiffany MP3s but 4GB is pretty small by today's standards. The lack of size is most disturbing when looked at next to its $130 price tag, not exactly chump change. Finally, the shape of the drive may make it take up both USB slots on cramped computers. Nagging reality aside, this really is the most aesthetically please flash drive we've ever seen.
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