14 DAY TRIAL // Wireless technologies have been made for almost every consumer device out there, but there are always extra costs associated with them, something that IOGEAR tried to solve by making it so that only one wireless device need be purchased.
Some changes come as a shock or surprise, while other just creep up on the IT market, but the ultimate result is an eventual shift in perspective.
One of the latest such shifts is the fact that a significant part of consumers from around the world have begun to seriously favor wireless devices.
Nonetheless, buying a wireless version of every possible gadgets can become too costly quite quickly.
Knowing this, IOGEAR decided to create something that can grant wireless support to multiple things at once.
Thus is was that the Wireless 4-port USB Sharing Station came into being, able to link USB webcams, flash drives, card readers and external drives, plus multi-function printers, to a home's wireless network.
In other words, multiple users will be able to access them from around the household without having to move the items about each and every time.
One USB 2.0 port exists at the front, as do three more at the back of the electronic, meaning that many gadgets will work with it (it is backwards compatible with USB 1.1).
One might raise an eyebrow at the lack of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 support, but WiFi rates wouldn't exactly be able to do the 5 Gbps rates justice regardless.
Of course, the centralized functionality does not come without a cost, the words being used literally in this instance.
Then again, even though the $100 mark does qualify as fairly steep, it is still a fair bit lower than the amount users would have to spend on individually wireless gadgets.