Cool USB gizmos – little friends for your laptop
Alexandra | 6:10 pm | November 30, 2009 | USB Stuff
Tiny mouse
Those who like mobility and don’t want to carry extra load will certainly appreciate surprising compactness and ease of the Super Slim USB optical mouse. It measures just 45 x 64 x 14 mm, and its weight is 28 grams. The mouse easily fits in your hand, while having very high resolution (1800 dpi). It works on most of surfaces, providing precise positioning. You can choose one of two models – white or black one.
High-speed scanner
The Neatdesk Scanner developed by the Neat company allows to work with most of the documents. It has three loading trays for different paper formats. The smallest one is designed for business cards, the second tray accepts cheques, and the biggest one works with the A4 paper size.
You can download up to 10 cards and 10 cheques at the same time, just press the button, and then all the documents will be scanned one by one. If you have a pack of A4 documents, you can load up to 50 sheets and they will be scanned automatically thanks to the document feeder. The maximum resolution is 600 dpi. The data can be exported to Outlook and Excel.
Special Neatdesk software allows you to automate scanning process. Just put the scanner near your laptop and enjoy a new film while this useful gadget is doing its work.
Desktop Vacuum Cleaner
A USB-powered miniature vacuum cleaner was designed expressly for fans of funny USB-toys. Despite its tiny size, it can manage its task. Use it to clean up crumbs and dust from the surface of your desk and laptop keyboard. Surely, this little helper means more power consumption for your battery, but having a spotlessly clean desk may well be worth it. 
A warm touch of bamboo
You are certainly tired of plastic that surrounds you everywhere. Do you want something natural? So you should pay your attention to Micro Innovations’ USB wooden keyboard and mouse that were made of bamboo for those who like “real” things. Quite unconventional, yet full of character.
Pedal Charger – Use Laptop without Battery
Alexandra | 1:06 am | November 14, 2009 | Concept Laptops, Laptop News, USB Stuff
Sometimes technologies of the past help us to go in the future. Let’s take the first pedal powered machine for XO laptops as an example. Akmal Waak and Mike Dawson, technicians working for OLPC (the One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc.) in Afghanistan, have designed such a mechanism to charge XO laptops. Of course, it is made not just for fun or health improvement, this new prototype has noble mission, it allows to use OLPC gadgets in countryside and rural areas beyond the power grid.
Developers claim that their human power machine can be used without any difficulties even by children of 3rd and 4th graders. Users can run laptop and at the same time charge it, moreover it requires no additional batteries or special adapters.
Аbout 2,500 laptops were delivered in Kabul, Herat and Jalalabad schools. Now specialists of OLPC Afghanistan’s deployment analyze impact of these educational innovations and plan to create a new pedal charger of smaller size to provide more comfort and mobility.
Such mechanisms can be helpful not only in developing and least developed countries, but also in advanced economies. Why not? Among other kinds of energy given by sun’s rays or wind we can rely on simple pedal power. And some producers have already done it. So a company from China has put on the market its Рedal Powered LED Spotlight Combo Contraption, new charger for gadgets with a USB port.
USB Makes You Cool
sergey | 3:26 am | March 13, 2008 | USB Stuff
Besides usual USB suspects, such as keyboards, mice, digital cameras, flash-drives and more specific devices (such as external soundcards), from time to time we come across puzzling, shocking, cute and amusing stuff. For instance, USB powered temperature coolers.
Do you sit long hours at your computer desk without a chance to get up and grab a drink? Then Cool-it USB Beverage Chiller is a must-have accessory. Keep your bottles cool and stay at your laptop as long as you need. It takes only a few seconds for the USB powered coldplate to chill your beverage down to 7 degrees. You can plug it into any USB equipped console, even your Sony Vaio.
Another Japanese USB device helps you cope with sweat in an office on a hot day. A USB powered shirt features a couple of built-in fans (2*10 cm each) which draw light breeze towards your body, vaporizing sweat and lowering your body temperature.
If you find such a shirt way too experimental, there is a more traditional alternative to feel comfortable in the summer, a nice USB powered fan. The device produces an unexpectedly strong blast of wind, and it can be easily bent and set at almost any angle.
A Chicken In A Wallet
maksim | 4:59 am | December 16, 2007 | USB Stuff
Chopping things in halves, technology moves on. For an electronic device, being sleek and trendy is like being a fruit fly- you are dead before the time the sun sets. Piled up with brothers and sisters, you are not even given a chance to be forgotten after death- you are recycled the next morning, your plastic body having more value than your empty soul.
Fighting back, devices take shapes that fool human eyes. They aim for classic, well-known, timeless structures. Morph into things that people are familiar with, both in size and shape. Natural selection in a synthetic world.
A USB drive in shape of a business card that goes perfectly into a wallet is a perfect example. In the world of USB drives it is like being taken to a zoo if you are a chicken- the chances are you will still end up in a soup, but your life will be a warm and comfortable one.
Source: www.walletex.com
Camera To Laptop File Transfer – An Easy Way
maksim | 9:00 pm | December 6, 2007 | Laptop Accessories, USB Stuff
Simplicity is the new top dance tune of technology hit list today. From minimalist product design of Apple’s iPod, to one-click purchase process that we can see on Amazon, it is all about easiness and speed, whatever you do.
EyeFi Card takes a common and, it would seem, relatively easy everyday task of camera-to-laptop file transfer to a whole new level of simplicity. The files are transferred wirelessly to your laptop; the SD card does not have to be taken out of the camera. The camera can be of any type, as long as it accepts SD format.
The SD card has a built-in wireless module inside that communicates with the laptop via a USB card reader. The software that goes with the card can also upload the images to most Picasa/flickr style photo-sharing websites.
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