What is gearlog?
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008The Web abounds with gadget blogs. What makes this one different? Our posters are PC Magazine analysts and editors; we encounter an enormous amount of new products and announcements every day, and we know what you want to know about. Because Gearlog is the gadget blog written by geeks, for geeks.
CD Destroyer
Monday, June 16th, 2008A portable CD/DVD disposal unit that plugs into the USB port. That’s what CD Destroyer from Vubest of Taiwan is. At the touch of a button, the device scratches circular patterns on CD’s readable surface rendering its contents useless in six seconds. It’s not very clear how the company’s claims that this is the [...]
Slide and negative films go digital
Friday, June 13th, 2008Piles of slides and negatives can be quite costly to convert through an external service provider. Breathe new life into your old 35mm slides and film negatives by converting them into digital images with the Slide/Film Digital Converter, which connects to your Windows XP computer via USB 2.0 cable. One-touch scanning, three LED for backlighting [...]
Converting your old school music
Monday, June 9th, 2008Are your vinyl LPs and cassette tapes gathering dust on your music room shelf? Here are some USB powered solutions for converting your analog music into digital. ionAudio’s USB Cassette Archiver turns your audio tapes into CDs or MP3. It uses Audacity software and EZ Tape Converter, and is PC and Mac compatible. No drivers [...]
Olympic fever on USB
Friday, June 6th, 2008Did you know that the design of the Olympic torch came from the design team at Lenovo, which worked on it for ten months? The winning “Cloud of Promise” design is not only on the torch, but also on Lenovo laptops and USB drives, as the company is a worldwide sponsor of the Beijing 2008 [...]
USB for foodies
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Do you prefer American-style fast food or Japanese sushi? With these USB storage devices, you can feed your cravings. The USB drives in the form of a pizza, hotdog sandwich, burger, and bacon, lettuce and egg sandwich (we think) can store up to 1 GB of data, and cost $79 each.
The realistic sushi [...]
The World’s Most Secure Flash Drive
Friday, May 30th, 2008They may not look fancy, but IronKey calls its USB drives the world’s most secure. And they are certainly the most sophisticated ones out in the market today. Read speeds reach up to 30 MBps and write speeds up to 20 MBps. IronKey employs AES hardware encryption and secure online backup for password recovery. It [...]
A modem, a phone, an MP3 player
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008And on top of that, the Toshiba G450 is a USB drive for 160 MB of data, too. Talk about multi-tasking. This 3G phone functions as a 3.6Mbits-per-second modem on mobile broadband. Unusual in design and function, the G450 automatically charges when connected to a laptop via USB. Like a regular mobile phone, it can [...]
Do You Really Need These?
Monday, May 26th, 2008These USB gadgets are not exactly the most time-saving devices ever made. Whatever works for you, man.
Keep your desk spic and span with Mr. Gadget USB Vacuum Cleaner. The two attachments are ideal for cleaning your keyboard.
Something for a fresh-smelling workplace: the USB Ashtray and Deodorizer absorbs smoke through a fan that leads the air [...]
Useful or Not?
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Cast doubts on the usefulness and practicality of these USB gadgets if you will, but these might just make your soda cooler and your workspace a bit more colorful and literally full of life. The USB Mini Fridge comes in red and black and holds one soda can. Its cooling pad becomes 8.5 degrees cold [...]
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