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USB/HDMI Connector for iPhone 4 / iPad Revealed by Hanwa

It really seems that there are plenty of iPhone or iPad users out there who're quite keen on adding USB and HDMI connectivity options to their iOS devices, and in order to cater to the needs of this particular user category, the Japanese company Hanwa has recently released their UMA-iOSHDMI adapter. According...

28 March 2011
07:16 GMT

Gefen Debuts Dual Link DVI to Mini DisplayPort Converter

Since the number of DisplayPort-enabled PC monitors out there is increasing (slowly, but steadily), Gefen has decided to come up with a solution that will help out those users who wish to view DVI dual link video via the Mini DisplayPort interface.The GefenTV Dual Link DVI to Mini DP Converter can also prove to be qu...

3 March 2011
06:51 GMT

Mitsubishi Retrofits Your Older 3D Ready HDTV for Modern 3D Signals

We're not sure just how many of you can still remember the earliest 3D-capable TVs, born before this trend actually took the whole market by storm back in 2010, but the truth of the matter is that quite a few HDTV manufacturers have come up with such products, most of which are unfortunately incompatible with cu...

31 January 2011
04:48 GMT

New eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter Introduced by NewerTech

Given the fact that the eSATA and USB 3.0 are currently some of the fastest data transfer interfaces available, the people over at NewerTech have decided that creating an adapter to “bridge” the two would be quite a logical idea, and thus released the eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter.So, what the NewerTech eSATA ...

28 January 2011
08:29 GMT

Connect a Logitech G25/G27 Racing Steering Wheel to Your Xbox 360 Slim

Unfortunately, there are quite a few gaming accessories out there that have been specifically designed in order to work just with certain gaming platforms (either PCs, Xbox consoles or PS3s), and that's exactly the case with Logitech's G27 and G25 racing wheels, but it seems that connectivity solutions'...

26 January 2011
05:19 GMT

Ouput 720p Video From Your iPhone 4 or iPad to a HDTV

Although most iPhone 4 and/or iPad owners are quite content with the desktop space provided by their smartphone or tablet, others are always looking for wider displays, and for this reason, Japanese company Sanwa has come up with a special adapter that will allow the owners of the aforementioned products from Apple t...

29 December 2010
06:39 GMT

Planex Helps You Share Your SD Card, Flash Drive Across a Network

Creating a cost-effective home or office computer network is a very important topic nowadays, and for this reason, Japanese company Planex has come up with a couple of devices that will enable network administrators to cut costs by enabling multiple users on a network to share the same USB ports and SD memory card re...

20 December 2010
14:31 GMT

5-in-1 Dock Connector for iPad Has it All

Ever since its launch, many people have been sort of disappointed by the relatively small number of connectivity options provided by Apple's tablet, but it would seem that all the third party accessories that have made their way onto the market lately are starting to sort out this problem, one of the latest (and...

20 December 2010
10:16 GMT

Hook Up Any Computer to an HDTV via the Sewell HDdeck USB to HDMI Adapter

While there are a few wireless connectivity solutions out there for hooking up a notebook to an HDTV, none of them delivers a good-enough level of performance in order to beat wired interfaces, such as the one you'll read about as follows, namely the Sewell HDdeck USB to HDMI display adapter.As the manufacturer ...

7 December 2010
05:06 GMT

How To Enable USB 3.0 Connectivity on Any Storage Drive

While the number of USB 3.0-enabled flash drives and HDDs is slowly, but surely increasing, things aren't looking very good for older drives and storage solutions, and in order to breathe some new life into these “antiquated” pieces of gear, NewerTech has recently introduced the USB 3.0 Universal Dri...

22 November 2010
05:40 GMT

Apple LED Cinema Display Getting Adapters for Older Macs from Kanex

One of the problems brought along by constant innovation is the fact that devices that are only one or two generations old become obsolete, the only way of extending their functioning life involving the use of various adapters, and this exact situation is currently affecting the owners of slightly older Macs who want...

22 October 2010
03:31 GMT

Sony Recalls About 69,000 Vaio Adapters

It's a known fact that Sony has had a series of mishaps with a number of its laptop batteries in the past, with the company being forced to issue recalls for those affected models. Just last year, Sony batteries powering systems from the likes of HP, Dell and Toshiba were recalled, with 19 reports of batteries o...

29 October 2009
06:24 GMT

Uber-Pricey Gefen's A/V Scaler Pro Upscales Your Video, Audio

Everyone's talking about upscaling nowadays as if it were the new “Mesiah” of consumer electronics. While the truth is that, albeit good, upscaling will never achieve the same level of image quality as “genuine” HD content (such as the one provided by Blu-ray discs), quite a lot of compan...

11 November 2008
14:21 GMT

IOGEAR GCS1784 KVMP Switch Connects Pretty Much Everything

Although for most of us, one monitor, one keyboard, one mouse and one desktop unit are quite enough, there are certain fields of activity where users have to control several computers at the same time. For this reason, the IOGEAR company has launched the GCS1784 4-Port Dual Link DVI KVMP Switch with 7.1 Audio, a devi...

5 November 2008
13:51 GMT

Extend Your HDMI Cable to 100 Meters

The problem with most HDMI cables available on the market is that they're either too expensive, too short, or both. There are several ways in which one can extend the length of a USB cable, and one of the simplest and easiest of them has just been presented by Gefen, in the form of their GefenTV Repeater for HDM...

5 November 2008
13:31 GMT

Turn Your CompactFlash Card into a Wireless One – Eye-Fi for CFs

Have you been reading about those very innovative Eye-Fi cards and wishing that the manufacturers had come up with a CompactFlash (CF) version as well? Something like...CF-Fi? Well, even if, for the time being, Eye-Fi cards are restricted to the SD format, there's also a workaround available, namely the CFMulti ...

20 October 2008
06:30 GMT

Monster's Latest Powerstrip Charges Even Your USB Devices

Whenever you leave your home for a business trip, a laptop (or notebook) is a mandatory accessory. However, most users also pack other devices as well, such as a portable MP3 player, portable printer or projector, or any other accessory that's powered via USB. So, how to accommodate all of these things when you&...

9 July 2008
04:21 GMT

How to Add an Extra Monitor to Your System via USB

Let's say that you've got a lot of files to work with on a daily basis and you need a lot of extra-desktop space (actually, a secondary desktop altogether). A second monitor would be the perfect solution to your problems, but, sometimes, installing such a device can prove to be pretty tricky, especially whe...

4 June 2008
07:16 GMT

The Adapter to Link Them All And Under USB Bind Them

The amount of data we've got to work with almost on a daily basis has reached GB levels, and this is the reason why most computer users go for increasingly larger HDDs. However, transferring data from an old storage unit to a new one can prove to be a rather tricky process sometimes, and this is exactly the reas...

15 January 2008
02:29 GMT

Control Up to Four (4) Computers Using a Single Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor

KVM switches can prove to be quite useful devices, especially for those users who want to control multiple computers from a single "station" (namely, by using a single set of peripherals). And this is exactly the reason why the Avocent company has just rolled out the SwitchView 100 family of desktop KVM switches for ...

18 December 2007
08:06 GMT

The Princeton PTM-UBT3S - Japan's (and Probably the World's) Tiniest Bluetooth USB Adapter

Bluetooth technology has virtually changed the world of communications as we know it, considering the fact that it has provided a much easier and more accessible data and voice transfer method even between previously completely incompatible devices. Bluetooth is used everywhere these days, and the adapters used for t...

24 August 2007
14:21 GMT

Multiple Connectivity, the IOGEAR Style: Two Computers, One of Everything Else

KVM switches have really proved their worth over time, as they allow users to share certain peripherals (keyboards, mice, monitors, etc.) between two computing systems in a very fast and reliable manner, without carrying out any "extreme" re-wiring operations. And one very interesting device of this type is IOGEAR�...

14 August 2007
09:36 GMT

SuperBoost Your USB Connection up to 45 Meters (150 Feet)

Most peripherals launched on the market nowadays use the Universal Serial Bus in order to connect to a computing system. However, in certain situations and for various reasons, technical problems make such a connection impossible and this is exactly the reason why the USB SuperBooster Wall Plate that has just been ma...

20 July 2007
03:16 GMT

The iWay Of Loading Photos onto the iPod

The iPod is by far the most popular portable digital audio player on the market, and it's no wonder that just about everyone is trying to come up with all sorts of accessories for Apple's player, each capable of carrying out certain more or less useful functions. And one such device is the iWay presented by...

4 June 2007
08:24 GMT


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