Storage
Creative Might Face Huge Class-Action Payments Due To Hard-Drive Capacity Manipulations
If you purchased a Creative Labs MP3 player between May 5th 2001 and April 30th 2008 you might be privileged to a class-action settlement, concerning false quoted hard-drive capacity, allegedly made by Creative during this period of time. According to sources, the company has apparently deceived the customers by adding 7% more storage capacity to its media players, as real data proved different. Although Creative has never submitted an admission, it seems the company is urging for an agreement that will grant anyone who apply for the payout, to get either a 50% discount on a 1GB player or 20% off on any Creative product from their online store. Mind you, claim forms need to be submitted by August 7th, at the latest, so if you bought a player between those dates, it’s your chance to get a fair discount.
Update: Creative has lost. The company will be forced to offer the plaintiff 50% discount on a 1GB ZEN Stone mp3 player or 20% off on any Creative product from their online store.
[via anythingbutipod]
Mvix Introduces The New MV-2500U Portable Multimedia Center
Mvix announces the release of the MV-2500U, a new 2.5-inc HDD multimedia player, coming with out LCD display but with other strong capabilities, including big drive capacity, ranged from 80GB up to 250GB, 480p/720p/1080i compatibility, numerous video formats support like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, DivX® 3.11, 4x, 5x, XVID, DVD(IFO,VOB), VCD, audio files as AC3, MP2, MP3, DTS pass through, WMA, or OGG and JPEG image files. The MV-2500U houses video outputs such as Component (Y-Pb-Pr), RCA L/R, Coaxial, Optical(5.1ch), S-Video, to access the player interface on your TV and watch your favorite movies on the big screen. It has sleek and stylish black aluminum design that can easily slip into your pockets with a small size, standing at 7.5 x 6 x 2.5 inches. The player is available for $149, so if you prefer having HDD-based multimedia player, minus screen display, it might be your next choice.
[via Mvix]
Bonanza USB Flash Drive Boasts a Banana Look And 8GB Of Storage
Chinese company, Hantat, presents a new refreshing fruity design for its latest USB flash drive lineup, on China Sourcing Fairs at the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong. The new Bonanza banana drive features a rubbery coat from head to toe and 8GB storage capacity, that will impress all your friends at first sight. Regretfully, there’s no word on price or availability, but with a tasty look and a unique shape you have to admit it worth buying.
[via Aving]
Zip Zip USB Drive comes With a LEGO Flavor
This new LEGO USB drive from Australian Zip Zip presents a clean refreshing look and brings a nice juvenile touch to the existing dull flash drives assortment, and although this are not real LEGO bricks they still look very similar. The LEGO drive comes with a wrist strap to hook to your keychain and different size capacities, ranged from 1GB ($49 USD) to 4GB ($85 USD). You can choose one out of 5 colors, including red, yellow blue, green or black, so if you’re a real LEGO fan you can start building your own castle with your USB drive.
Western Digital My Passport Essential Drives Get New Colors
Western Digital has officially released a new My Passport Essential lineup, coming with 10 stunning glossy colors that join the already exist dull black portable drive. The new series features a luxurious soft-touch finish and shiny vivid colors, including brilliant orange, super sunny yellow, raindrop blue, arctic white, deep viola, cherry red, ultra mint, real red, intense blue, and vibrant pink. Sized at 15 x 126.15 x 79.5mm, each of the drives is available in 120GB, 160GB, 250GB or 320GB capacities, so you can pickup your favorite color with prices ranged from $119.99 to $179.99, respectively.
[WesternDigital via I4U]
PNY Brings The Chic To The Storage Stick
PNY unveils the new Attache’ flash drive, coming with a stunning slick design and a nice fashionable flowery flavor. It has no special technical advantages but it’s built in a special configuration to protect the USB dongle, once you close the external shell. The Attache’ USB2.0 stick houses 2GB or 4GB capacity to store all your files, documents, photos and music, safely. Price should be around $60 for the 4GB version, no details regarding release date.
Western Digital Introduces The New My Passport Elite Lineup
Western Digital has officially released the new My Passport Elite portable drive series, coming with stunning glossy colors and a Capacity Gauge to tell you how much space is available on your drive, whenever you want. The new Elite lineup features a luxurious soft-touch finish and shiny vivid colors, including bronze, titanium, westminster blue and cherry red. Likewise, you can find the good old automatic backup software and a secured 128-bit encryption, to protect all your data. Sized at 15 x 126.15 x 79.5mm, the new My Passport Elite drives are available in 250GB ($170) or 320GB ($200) storage capacity, so you can pickup your favorite color immediately, mine is the blue.
[via engadget]
SanDisk To Distribute Music On microSD Cards
SanDisk plans to launch Sansa Sessions, a new initiative to distribute music and movies on microSD cards. Their first steps will probably take place with the purchase of a new 8GB Sansa Fuze player, as SanDisk intend to give the buyers a free microSD card, loaded with 55 DRM-free tracks from more than 50 new artists, including All Time Low, Ladytron, Magnet, Nada Surf, Of Montreal and The Coup. The cause is twofold, first reason is to attract music junkies to buy the new Fuze and second, is for promotional sake. In any case, we get 512MB microSD card, free of charge, and novice artists earn free exposure.
[ via engadget]
USB Bomb Drive Can Be Really Intimidating In Public
Do me a favor, don’t hang out with this USB bomb drive in your bag, once it goes live. Designed by Joel Escalona, the threatening device might be a nice decoration on your desk but very suspicious on the go. Judging its size, it can host like 500GB of storage or a ton of gunpowder but as we already implied, it is only a prototype, thank god.
[via technabob]
USBee Flash Drive Concept Looks Surprisingly Like a Bee
This new USBee flash drive concept won the first prize at the MS Industrial USB Competition. It features a bending neck (whatever it means), a ventilation cooling system to provide chilled air around the circuit board (redundant), and a detachable cap that hooks at the back. No word on storage capacity or production, but i think i’m starting to like this “Bee-stick” design, only from the outside, nothing else.
[via yankodesign]
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Asus MS71 Combines a Mouse And a Flash Drive In a Small Stick
This new gadget from Asus integrates between a USB flash drive and a mouse, yes a MOUSE. Though i’m doubtful it will fit ergonomically the palm of your hand, the Asus MS71 features a wireless mouse with left & right buttons and a scroll wheel in between. In addition, it serves as a flash drive to store uncertain amount of files to carry on the go. No word on price or availability but if you’re really running out of place in your lappy bag, consider having one.
[via engadget]
A-DATA Presents a Mickey Mouse Flash Drive With Image Holder
To those of you who collect Mickey Mouse artefacts, A-DATA provides its share, introducing the T703 Mickey Flash Drive with a place to slide your favorite image, after all, it suppose to sit in your keyring. The USB connector was design as part of the left ear, while the right one holds your keychain. The drive features 1GB to 8GB storage size and price range starts from 20$. No word on availability.
[via gizmodo]
Princeton Introduces The XiaoClef2 - A New USB Drive With Fingerprints Reader
Japanese company, Princeton, unveils a new flash memory stick with a fingerprint reader, to secure your data and prevent easy access to protected files. The new XiaoClef2 comes with 512MB, 1GB, 2GB and 4GB storage size, it is compatible with Windows Vista and sports USB2.0 connection. The security relies on MANYUSHA matching system, providing high-performance semiconductor sensors for a full and accurate fingerprint image certification. Price and availability are missing.
[via akihabaranews]
Fujitsu Introduces a 2.5″ Laptop Drive With 500GB Storage Size
Storage capacity is the name of the game in the extensive world of multimedia and global data. When movies, songs and tons of pictures are choking our laptops’ drive, we want more. To comply with our growing needs, Fujitsu has created the MHZ2 BT, a new hard drive with half terabyte storage size, that’s 500GB in a 2.5-inch HDD and a 12.5mm height. Mind you, it is not the ordinary size and I’m not sure it will fit your notebook, but it is a positive mark for us. Price details are not available but you should be able to buy one around May.
[via i4u]
Transcend StoreJet 25 Stores Your Data Safely
Transcend released the StoreJet 25, a small portable drive with a powered USB 2.0 bus connection (No separate power needed), easy one-touch sync and a silicone case, complying with US military standards. The external drive is equipped with an anti-shock functionality, so you can be sure your data will be kept safely in the 160Gb or the 250GB models. It is compatible with Windows vista or Mac OS 0.9 and you can get yours for $135 / $196, respectively.
[via slashgear]
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