If you travel a lot, portable chargers are very useful, even necessary. Everyone loves to have their USB devices charged on the go, without the need of having an electrical outlet available. Just hook up you smartphone, laptop or GPS, put it in your bag and go. But the problem appears when you need to […]
Thanks to the new Corning’s optical cables, USB 3.0 connections are advancing to light speed transfers and, none the less, longer distances. With stretches of up to 10 meters, the USB 3.0 optical cable has transfer data speeds much higher than the standard copper ones. Plus, unlike the standard cable, which could only run for […]
For almost two decades computer users’ difficulties regarding trying and failing to plug-in the USB connectors will come to an end. The new Type-C USB connector model is going to be both symmetrical and reversible. The ends of the cable will the same at both ends and it will no longer matter which way the […]
Even thou the first glimpse at the product was at the Long Beach Convention Center during the April 1-3 Space Tech Expo, the TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. or TCS, one of the world leaders in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology announced this year, on April 8, the new radiation-tolerant NAND flash memory device. NAND […]
At IDF 2014, in China, Intel released more details about the new revision of the USB technology, the version 3.1. The update was announced in 2013 by the USB Promoter Group and it may be formally approved in the next few months. The USB 3.1 The USB 3.1 comes with a new connector named USB […]
In this article, we will give you a little review about the SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive. This device is a quite new addition from the flash memory maker and it offers, basically, all the features that are found in other similar existing Wi-Fi devices. But its major advantage is it size, the SanDisk Connect […]
If you need a new computer or a laptop with a built-in serial port, you are in trouble, especially when it comes to mobile computers. In almost all home or office environments, the old serial protocol was replaced by the Universal Serial Bus, the USB, so PC manufacturers stopped providing them as standard hardware. But […]
The need of faster data transmission between external devices and host computer is higher and higher and mostly because of this, the global sales of USB 3.0 devices are projected to reach at least 3 billion units by 2018. As we all know, today, the USB standard has become a need for most electronic devices […]
We are all curious about the designs of some customised USB flash drives and almost all of them are provoking interest, mostly because of their unique nature. This applies even to a USB drive stuck inside a Lego brick or one with its electrical parts just wrapped in electrical tape. But in this article we […]
Most all computer users still have some USB sticks that are not used anymore, just sitting around, waiting to be useful again. But why not put them to good use once more? Imagine that you’re at your home or work computer, you have a dozen tabs opened in your browser window and you’re writing or […]
Part 2 – USB 3.0 versus Firewire, eSATA and ExpressCard 2.0 Just as before, in the Part 1 of our comparison, we’ll try to be as brief as possible in comparing the USB 3.0 with the other popular computer interfaces, to present you just the facts and a few impressions. USB 3.0 versus Firewire The […]
Part 1 – USB 3.0 versus USB 2.0 and Thunderbolt We’ll try to be as brief as possible in comparing the USB 3.0 with other popular computer interfaces. Today, we’ll compare it with Thunderbolt and USB 2.0, unbiased facts and impressions, so you can make the best decision for your devices, gadgets and mobile or […]
