Samsung launches really, really good looking, yet tough, SD and microSD cards

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  • February 17, 2012 at 12:49 pm

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Samsung stylish brushed metal SD and microSD cards

When considering SD cards, which live mostly inside our devices, stylish design is pretty low on our list of priorities. Nevertheless, Samsung is on a mission to beautify its entire line of electronics, hence meet its new SD and microSD cards featuring a brushed metal exterior. But been being really, really good looking is not their only property, the new cards have some serious rugged credentials.

The seven new SD and microSD card models are waterproof, shockproof and magnet proof. Samsung guarantees the cards will survive up to 24 hours submerged in water, can withstand a 3,200 lbs force (you can drive a 1.6 ton vehicle over them) and even a magnetic field up to 10,000 gauss won’t be enough to screw up your data.
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Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 gives you SSD performance in a USB 3.0 flash drive

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  • November 19, 2011 at 8:27 am

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Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 flash drive 256GB

USB flash drives are loved as convenient forms of portable storage and loathed for their very slow speeds. Remember those spy flicks where you our lovely hero(ine) is risking capture while waiting for ages to transfer a bunch of state secrets on a USB stick. Well, Hollywood producers take note, a new kind of flash drive is in town.

Kingston, maker of all things memory, has unveiled the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0. It’s a USB 3.0 device and promises transfer speeds of up to 225MB/s read and 135MB/s write. These make it by far the fastest USB flash drive out there now. Speed is owed to an 8-channel architecture while the drive is also USB 2.0 backwards compatible but at much slower 30MB/s transfer speeds.

The HyperX brand had so far been reserved for the company’s enthusiast memory and more recently its SSD drive line. Kingston points out that USB 3.0 transfer speeds are good enough so that you can work on large files or launch applications directly from the drive. The drive also offers Windows ReadyBoost support to speed up Windows systems.
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Toshiba’s FlashAir SDHC memory card with embedded wireless LAN can transfer back and forth over thin air

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  • September 3, 2011 at 3:00 am

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Toshiba FlashAir SDHC Memory Card with Embedded Wireless LAN

We really like technology that makes things easier and frees us from arduous tasks. There is something extremely frustrating, after a hard day of shooting, to have to take your SD card out of the camera and plug it into your computer to upload your pictures, or god forbid fishing out a USB cable for your camera. That’s why we love the whole concept of Eye-Fi‘s wireless SD cards, which send photos directly from your camera over the air to your computer or Wi-Fi enabled devices.

Toshiba thought, well what happens if you actually want to send pictures or other files the other way around, and that’s how the creation of their FlashAir SDHC card came about. As Toshiba envisions it, this will enable two-way transfers between cards, and the devices hosting them, using embedded wireless LAN technology for tasks such as sharing photos between two cameras or pulling photos to your camera from photo sharing sites. Toshiba is also claiming, lower power consumption than other cards with similar functions.
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