USB Swiss Army Knife For Legacy Interfaces
If you find yourself working on old machines and peripherals or simply like cobbling together your own kit you often need to use connections which have always been, or slowly become, relatively…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 13, 2020 | General Tech | 0
If you find yourself working on old machines and peripherals or simply like cobbling together your own kit you often need to use connections which have always been, or slowly become, relatively…
Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Mar 25, 2019 | General Tech | 1
HyperX has released the Quadcast USB microphone today and we had a chance to test it out early for this launch-day review. Introduced at CES...
Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Feb 27, 2019 | Editorial | 18
There was a time when USB simply meant Universal Serial Bus, and we watched as devices that had previously relied on serial and parallel (etc.) ports moved to the new, more convenient standard; and in the…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Dec 20, 2018 | Storage | 0
DeepSpar is the big name in data recovery, making all sorts of data recovery hardware used by many of the big data recovery warehouses. They've recently ventured into getting their recovery...
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Aug 17, 2018 | General Tech | 3
Recently, we got the opportunity to take a look at an interesting video capture device from a company called Pengo. While we had never heard of this company before, the promises of…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | May 29, 2018 | General Tech | 7
Synopsys has just published a video on YouTube where they connect two bonded lanes over a standard Type-C cable. This was accomplished with a host USB 3.2 controller embodied by an FPGA…
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Oct 3, 2017 | General Tech | 9
The USB Implementers Forum recently published and made official the specifications for the USB 3.2 standard first introduced in near-final form by the USB 3.0 Promoters Group back in July. The…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jan 3, 2017 | Storage | 4
Kicking off the storage announcements at CES 2017, Kingston announced a 2TB thumb drive: Ok, well it's a bit big for a thumb drive, but it is definitely a high capacity portable SSD…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jun 21, 2016 | Storage | 10
Introduction Western Digital launched their My Passport Wireless nearly two years ago. It was a nifty device that could back up or offload SD cards without the need...
Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Sep 24, 2015 | Mobile | 1
Qualcomm has announced Quick Charge 3.0, the latest iteration of their fast battery charging technology. The new version is said to not only further improve battery charging times, but also better maintain…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 8, 2015 | General Tech | 5
Bask in the glory that is this hacked together 33 port USB charger, created in the Netherlands as a workaround to connet the charges to the three rounded prongs used in…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Jul 8, 2015 | General Tech | 26
Logitech has been around seemingly forever. The Swiss based company is ubiquitous in the peripherals market, providing products ranging from keyboards and mice, to speakers and headsets. There…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jun 30, 2015 | General Tech, Storage | 2
Lexar is Micron’s brand covering SD Cards, microSD Cards, USB flash drives, and card readers. Their card readers are known for being able to push high in...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jun 23, 2015 | General Tech, Storage | 4
Inateck sent along a small group of connectivity devices for us to evaluate. One such item was their HB7003 7 port USB 3.0...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Apr 15, 2015 | Storage | 2
Introduction The other day we took a look at the ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB996SP-6SB and ICYBento MB559U3S-1S. Today we'll move onto a couple of larger products in their lineup: To...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Apr 6, 2015 | Storage | 7
Introduction Today we're taking a quick look at a pair of drive enclosures sent to us by ICY DOCK. To the left is the ToughArmor MB996SP-6SB, which is a 5.25"...
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Mar 25, 2015 | Motherboards | 13
Last week, MSI launched a slew of new USB 3.1 equipped motherboards. Today, the company is releasing more details on one of the AMD-based products: the MSI 970A SLI Krait...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 12, 2015 | General Tech | 6
It is not easy to kill something via USB as the plugs deal with all sorts of devices that are off spec but it can be done. If you short ground and…
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