Two bracelets and a base station

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In case you forgot where you stored them.

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A concept USB drive could make an interesting glow stick.

Now this is a rather nifty way to store files: a USB stick with cool disco lights. Although the device won't throw specs of light across the room like a storm of rotating, glittering snow, the transparent USB stick does sport a variety of colors, depending on what's actually stored on the device.

When empty, the USB stick remains clear. However, stored images will spark a pink hue, and movies will cause the stick to glow green. Normal, non-multimedia files are symbolized by a blue hue. If the entire clear section is maxed out with all three lights, then the drive is actually full.

Right now the design is in its concept stage, with the prototype merely rendered in 3DS Max or some other modeling program. Still, the design is rather nifty, and would serve as great illumination while sitting behind the PC in the dark.

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Here comes a little device that combines three useful functions in one, which it works as a USB Direct Link cable, a USB NetLink and a USB card reader.

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Meet the Lightsaber USB flush drive, which is another gadget that is specially designed for the Star Wars fans. The LightSaber USB flash drive has a USB connector hidden inside the handle, offers very slim storage capacity of 1GB but is priced at $20, a price tag that is much more than the capacity deserves.

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Infinitec has announced their Infinite USB memory (IUM) stick which claims to allow any USB port-equipped devices or computers to share and stream contents via WiFi. As long as a device has a USB port, such as your Blu-Ray player, gaming consoles, HDTV, you can hook up the IUM stick to the device’s USB port to let it share content and stream media from other connected devices.

Infinitec also promises that the IUM stick works with all file formats and extensions or types. And it’s capable of streaming full HD content as well. The IUM stick is also compatible with various OSes including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Games consoles such as Xbbox 30, PS3 and Nintendo Wii are able to receive streamed content via the IUM too.

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For old desktop computers or laptops that have only VGA port, you’ll need a VGA to HDMI adapter/converter in order to connect them to a HDTV for playing back HD videos.

Atlona has announced a wired version of their VGA to HDMI adapters which can be powered by only a single USB port of your computer. This little USB powered adapter has no issue at all to deliver full HD content at a max resolution of 1920 x 1200 from your computer to the HD display.

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We’ve seen quite a number of USB 2.0 HDD docks. But we’ve now stepped into the USB 3.0 era when you need much higher speeds of data transfer, so it’s time to start eyeing for some USB 3.0 HDD docks in order to enjoy the 5Gbps of data transfer speeds. Here comes the Sharkon USB 3.0 SATA HDD dock that offers dual-drive docking which has two slots to fit for 2.5 and 3.5-inch SATA hard drives.

Each slot has its own power on/off switch, LED indicator, and there is an eject button for each which allows the ease of drive removal. This dual-drive docking station uses separate USB 3.0 interface for each drive, which should ensure more dedicated power and bandwidth for each drive.

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Don't forget your PIN for this USB flash drive.

Flash drives are great for toting around data, but they can also be easy to lose. While those worried about security can use a third-party encryption software to keep things locked down, Corsair makes it easier than ever with its Flash Padlock 2 USB flash drive.

The Flash Padlock 2 employs a user-definable PIN code that is entered using the integrated numeric keypad to unlock the drive and access the data. The data is secured by a 256-bit AES data encryption and cannot be compromised by disassembling the drive to gain access to the flash ICs.

The built-in nature of the keypad is handy for those who want to access the data without running external software. This could be useful when plugging the USB stick into a consumer device such as a TV or game console. If one should forget his or her password, there is software to completely reset the drive to a blank state.

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A USB flash drive larger than your console's hard disk drive.

Living in the U.S. and in search for a USB flash drive with massive capacity? Kingston is finally shipping its 256GB drive to the United States with data transfer rates of 25MB/sec. read and 12MB/sec. write.

The model known as the DataTraveler 310 replaces the 256GB DataTraveler 300, released in July 2009 to the Asia/Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.

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