Category: Peripherals
Thanko USB AM/FM radio – playback and record via your PC
For once, a USB device that’s of some use – the Thanko USB AM/FM radio.
Net Cowboy webcam – keep your house secure
There’s so many webcams around these days, you really need some kind of unique selling point to grab a share of the market. The Net Cowboy has two – it makes you look good and keeps your house secure.
The Snowcrash Netsurfer combined PC desk and bed
For when those Warcraft sessions really start to hurt.
The Snowcrash Netsurfer is a semi-reclined chair and desk combo, with the monitor placed high up at eye level. Like most monitors on desks are already, really. It has little pillows do distribute your body weight, which, if you’re buying a custom PC desk, is likely to be massive.
Olivetti launches Linea range of Jasper Morrison-designed printers
What’s that ugly box in the corner of the office? That will be your printer, the one item in the workplace that never gets a design makeover. Until now that is, with Olivetti launching the Linea range of printers designed by Jasper Morrison, one of the most influential industrial designers around today.
USB combination digital microscope, webcam and hub
Brando has come up with a device that can turn everyone into scientists. (No, not some kind of mind-ray – yet!) The USB Digital Microscope + Web Cam + USB2.0 Hub is a digital microscope that has a web cam and 2-port USB hub. (Surprise!) This combination allows you to view and capture high quality images and videos, display them on your computer, and show them… to the world! Yes, you’ll show them! No, seriously, it’s a webcam, you’ll show them. $200. [GT]
USB Digital Microscope + Web Cam + USB2.0 Hub
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Behringer Podcastudio – home broadcasting made easy
While there’s plenty of quality radio out there, one twist of the dial to the local stations shows that you don’t need a lot of talent to get on the airwaves. And with something like the Behringer Podcastudio, you don’t need a lot of technical expertise either.
USB virtual friends from Brando finally hit Europe
While it may be that you can pick your friends, with Brando’s USB virtual friends you can pick their very souls! (Maniacal laughter) With 100 preset catchphrases and a personality editor to allow you to fine tune exactly how your minions, er, friends, behave, they also have a little photo frame where their face should be, so you can paste in someone you love, or just want to dominate. We’ve been waiting eagerly since they were announced, and finally, they’re on sale! $17 each or $30 for the pair. [GT]
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Ultra Slim Bluetooth Dongle
Now here’s a USB device you’ve got room to slip in your loafer — since it’s barely bigger than a penny! The Ultra Slim Bluetooth Dongle is only 4.5mm thick and has a slide cover so there’s nothing, as it were, to lose. It imparts Bluetooth 1.2 connectivity with a 10m radius range. £20. [GT]
Ultra Slim Bluetooth Dongle (via Red Ferret Journal)
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LINDY launch two-port FireWire ExpressCard
LINDY Electronics has today announced the availability of its two-port FireWire ExpressCard, compatible with notebook computers that have this latest interface.
Nimzy ProtoKey: padlocks your files and makes them invisible to others
Widget UK has come out with a USB device for the security-conscious PC users who wants to protect their files.
Though it looks like a fairly standard memory stick, it isn’t. Instead, it allows users to encrypt and hide the personal and sensitive data on their PC hard drive, and any external storage devices attached to it, so that it effectively becomes invisible, secure, and untraceable, to anyone else who uses that PC.
