Travelling Terabyte Project: Digital Care Package

Here's something for the books: A hacker known in the community as "Deviant Ollam" had a couple of spare hard drive and decided to put it to a better use -- fill it up with digial media files (music, movies and pictures) and send it over to American troops stationed overseas. Tgdaily.com reports that initially, the drives had a 50/50 ratio of educational and entertainment content but as the project becomes popular, people donates more and more entertainment contents.

The "digital care package" is not meant to stay in one place. Deviant Ollam encourages its recipients to add their own content to the package and then send it over to other camps.

Cool idea huh?

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Kingston FlashDrive + Card Reader

I hope my favorite local store carries this:


The Kingston Data Traveller Reader. At around $20 for the 2GB variant and $ 35 for 4Gb, it is a practical way to bring your data and applications on-the-go.

Saint B: For the Music Loving Vampire Slayers

One look at this concept MP3 player from MWD and one would already guess the target market of the Saint B MP3 Player -- the Vampire Slayers.

Its sleek black face with shiny metallic chrome side and back is reminiscent of a certain iMP3 player.

Chewie Chewbacca USB Flashdrive!

Hot on the heels of the Darth Vader FlashDrive comes the Chewbacca FlashDrives from Mimobot!

These buggers will be available starting January 2007 and here's the price

1GB - $79.95 (approx. Php 4,000)
2GB - $119.95 (approx. Php 6,000)
3GB - $169.95 (approx. Php 8,500)

Can't wait which Star Wars character will come out next.

Easy Vinyl-to-CD with TEAC

I can't believe my eyes when I saw this on the Akihabara news website: a TEAC-branded turntable + CD Recorder + AM/FM Radio which BTW is on sale at a store in Park Square 1 Makati!

This is a godsend to those who have an extensive LP collection that are now gathering dust somewhere because owners can now convert these LPs into audio CDs.

Flashdrives for the Paranoid and the Packrat

Today, I saw two very interesting flashdrives.

One is Verbatim's "Store 'n Go" Secure USB Drive. This flashdrive has capacity ranging from 256 MB to 4 GB. Their "General Consumer" model may or may not use the built-in security features but the high-end "Corporate" model requires mandatory password protection. It also uses a 128bit AES encryption algorithm which is hashed using the SHA-1 standard. The Corporate model will automatically wipe its contents after 10 failed password entries.

The next one on our plate is Toshiba's new "TransMemory^TM" flashdrives. Nothing too spectacular about this except that they will release a "limited edition" 16 GB(!) variant. Now, that's really impressive considering that the first computer I used had a whopping 20 MB of hard disk space. These TransMemory flashdrives are U3-compliant so users may install U3-compatible programs directly into it and run those programs wherever they may need them.