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Can storage be sexy?

Posted February 15, 2012 - 5:59 am

The most quotidian of tech products might still have some design flair.
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8 strange places to find USB ports

Posted April 6, 2011 - 10:32 am

In the bad old days, device connectivity involved hassling with PS/2 ports, serial ports, parallel ports, IDE ports, and other primitive technologies. Now there are USB ports everywhere, and here are eight of the strangest places we have seen them.
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Ghoulish gadgets: cool Halloween tech

Posted October 11, 2010 - 8:00 am

Some would say that Halloween is not a techie-type holiday. To those people I, and the creative (read: demented) makers of these gadgets, say "Boo!"
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19 Weird but Real Gadgets and Gizmos

Posted March 4, 2010 - 12:51 pm

Take a walk on tech's wild side with some of the strangest, most original, and most bizarre gadgets you've ever seen. We've got vacuums for your lawn, swimwear that can charge your iPod, and grenades that don't explode but still go boom.
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20 Goofy USB Gadgets & Gizmos You'll Love

Posted December 4, 2009 - 12:23 am

We scoured the Web for the world's wackiest USB-powered gadgets to dress up and differentiate your desktop or cubicle - and annoy coworkers. These 20 gizmos, from cubicle stink-busters to toasters that print the morning news on your breakfast, could lower the stress quotient at even the highest-pressure offices.
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10 Totally Ridiculous Combo Gadgets

Posted November 30, 2009 - 5:55 pm

From a combo taser/MP3 player to a computer mouse/VoIP phone, these Frankengadgets never should have seen the light of day.
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Top 10 Non-Tech Gadgets IT Pros Can't Live Without

Posted November 30, 2009 - 5:36 pm

The Leatherman
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Holiday Gift Ideas: Storage

Posted November 19, 2009 - 3:03 pm

Network storage, hard drives, memory cards and everything in between.
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Slideshow: 10 Must-have gifts for your Geek

Posted October 2, 2009 - 2:54 pm

There's no time like the present to get those special, hard-to-find geeky gifts.
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Ought Thumb Drives Be Given the Thumbs Down?

Posted October 24, 2008 - 9:49 am

Todayâ€™s small, portable USB thumb drives can store significant amounts of data and be easily slipped into a pocket without anyone noticing. This makes it possible for someone to copy data from a network, walk out the company door, and transfer the same data onto another PC.
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Not all USB drives are created equal

Posted August 25, 2008 - 2:17 pm

Most USB 2.0 flash drives look the same, but that doesn't mean they perform the same. Differences in the type of memory and, to a lesser extent, the type of I/O controllers used by USB drives can make one device perform two or three times faster and (theoretically, at least) last 10 times longer than another, even if both sport the USB 2.0 logo.
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