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From the makers of the Swiss Knife that all outdoors men love, Victorinox has released their Slim and Slim DUO. So what do you expect from a knife maker in terms of a usb gadget? Well it is topped by their logo and it slides out of it’s protective shell as if it were a knife blade. The nifty thing is the DUO version which actually has two usb drives in one package so you get two for the price of one.
You don’t need to worry about it much for it is made with the same robustness as their knives. For frequent travelers, don’t fret for the drives are TSA approved so no security teams surrounding you and your baggage at the airport. The SLIM has a capacity ranging from 4 to 64 Gigabytes with the DUO at a max of 128 Gigabytes.

The days of the old USB 2.0 standard are numbered with motherboard manufacturers and other PC related hardware makers starting to adopt the USB 3.0 standard. It does everything that a version 2.0 device/port can do except for one single fact, it can offer up to 100 watts of power on the port.

More juice allows faster charging for usb gadgets and more power for other peripherals you attach to your PC. This has been a major problem for USB gadgets like external drives that do need a lot of power when you plug it in. To get them going, you need a separate USB hub with it’s own adapter but the new standard would eliminate that. You may have to lessen your tinkering a bit with those USB gadgets for 100 watts can be a whopper indeed.

Hailed as genius, the design combines one of the most common office tool/implement, the paper clip and a USB drive. It is simple yet so revolutionary that other manufacturers were scratching their heads why they didn’t think of the idea.

One nifty advantage of having a paper clip attached to that drive is that you can clip on your drive on the notepads you need for your presentation. Simple yet very elegant, you’d never think it was a thumb drive till you see your office mates plugging in. Talk about combining the old paper office with the greener paperless one, marriage made in heaven

It is expensive and wasteful to hire humans to answer or guide callers. This is when the beauty of automated natural sounding text-to-speech software is realized. Text-to-speech conversion with high-quality, natural sounding voices for hand-held, desktop, and server applications adds a lot of value to business telephony with Asterisk PBX.

Text-to-Speech voices are available in 6 languages and 18 different characters including “Allison” the standard Asterisk voice. These voices are sizable and can range from 4 MB for embedded applications, to 100 MB for server-based installations. Text-to-Speech voices are tested on all major telephony platform operating systems including: Windows Server, Windows XP, Linux (32 & 64 bit), Solaris (Sparc and x86), and Mac (PowerPC and Intel). Read the rest of this entry »

When is Vista Sideshow not Vista Sideshow? When it does the same thing as Sideshow—display little widgets on an external device—but doesn’t use Vista’s Gadgets. The USB Gadget Display does look like a little 2-inch LCD display, which shows clocks and various other things like CPU and RAM usage outside of your machine, but it works with Windows XP, something Sideshow can’t claim.

We’ve seen awesome Tesla coil art many times before, and the latest addition to the catalog is no exception. With Christmas decorations, a vehicle anti-theft device and allied soldiers all getting the Tesla treatment, it was only a matter of time before the humble laptop entered into the realms of electrical greatness.

Egoman’s latest PMP, the MP810RSTD-43 bears an impressive, 4.3-inch touchscreen, which supports 16.7 million colours, and that just about sets it apart from the other iPod touch clones sitting it out in PMP purgatory. The device will playback WVI and RMVB at 30 fps, is just 7.2mm thick and will happily playback MP3, WMA, ADPCM, WAV, APC and FLAC files

Ever wish you could have an aquarium and not actually worry about taking care of the fish? Well now you can have the aquarium aspect without actually having the real fish side to it with the new Brando USB Interactive Aquarium. Leave it to Brando to come up with yet another zany USB product. This one’s a funny one if you ask me.

Produced in conjunction with open source Linux startup, Good OS, Everex’s new limited edition MyMiniPC is designed especially for the MySpace-obsessed, featuring a special version of gOS Linux chalk full of social network goodness, including a slew of new MySpace apps created in the wake of the site’s recent open-API launch.

We’ve seen awesome Tesla coil art many times before, and the latest addition to the catalog is no exception. With Christmas decorations, a vehicle anti-theft device and allied soldiers all getting the Tesla treatment, it was only a matter of time before the humble laptop entered into the realms of electrical greatness. Accordion-style USB drive actually solves a problem.