Keystone ECO Booster 2.0 Extends the Battery Life of Smart Phones On-the-Go
Concord Keystone Trading announced its anticipated Keystone ECO Booster 2.0, an ultra slim and lightweight 2000 mAh portable battery pack for Micro USB smart phones. The Keystone ECO Booster 2.0 can be seen at CES, LVCC, North Hall, iLounge, Booth 5508.
The Keystone ECO Booster 2.0 has a built-in retractable Micro USB charging cable so it recharges the smart phones without the need to bring another loose cable. The unit can be attached to the back of the phone using the adhesive gel pad concealed beneath a removable protective cover, which can be relocated to the back of the Booster 2.0 to be used as a horizontal or vertical viewing stand while charging. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: USB World
- Filed under: USB News
- Date: Jan 10,2012
This week at International CES 2012, Toshiba America Electronic Components, will be demonstrating the latest additions to its lineup of flash memory offerings – the TransMemory-EXseries of USB flash memory products.
The new drives are compliant with the new USB 3.0 standards – known as Super Speed USB. Initial storage capacities include a 32GB model and a 64GB model.
Utilizing Toshiba’s Double Data Rate (DDR) NAND , the new products offer maximum data transfer rates of 220 MB/sec for reading and 94 MB/sec for writing – or 22 times and 18 times faster transfer rates, respectively, when compared with Toshiba’s previous models. Additionally, Toshiba achieved this level of performance with low power consumption of 300 mA or less – one of the lowest in the industry. Toshiba’s new drives are fully backward-compatible with the USB 2.0 standard. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: USB World
- Filed under: USB News
- Date: Jan 9,2012
Samsung Electronics announced Optical SMART Hub, the SE-208BW optical disc drive (ODD) for backing up and accessing all your media files – pictures, movies, MP3s and data files.
The new Optical SMART Hub can be accessed from your tablet, smartphone, and Smart TV and up to four devices can access simultaneously. The Optical SMART Hub helps extend the storage on devices by acting as a personal cloud. The Optical SMART Hub allows CD and DVD writing function without ever turning on a desktop or notebook. With the addition of a Samsung application, users can enable their smartphone, tablet, and PC access to the Optical Smart Hub. The app for the Samsung smartphones and tablets are available now.
The new Optical SMART Hub allows users to:
- Build a Wi-Fi home cloud system
- Take advantage of Wireless, Ethernet, USB connectivity
- Support mobile devices, PC, Read/Write devices
- Establish scalable support for storage with external USB
The SE-208BW combines an external ODD with a wireless module to provide wider end-user benefits. Offering CD/DVD streaming and writing capabilities, the SE-208BW features Samsung’s APP to enable smartphone, tablet and PC users to wirelessly stream and play CDs and DVDs on their smart devices to listen to music or watch their favorite movies. Read the rest of this entry »
Building on the success of the award-winning Roku streaming players, Roku unveiled a new solution to make a better Smart TV. The new Roku Streaming Stick is a wireless device about the size of a standard USB flash drive that will plug into a TV to instantly transform it into a Smart TV.
The Roku Streaming Stick will feature built-in WiFi, processor, memory and software to deliver Roku’s growing collection of streaming entertainment. With these new Smart TVs, consumers will enjoy a fully integrated high-definition streaming experience. Read the rest of this entry »
Wisair, the leading vendor of UWB and Wireless USB single chip based solutions, announced today the availability of its latest 2 in 1 wireless adapter, offering both PC to TV and Video Chat on TV.
New products based on this solution have been launched by Warpia and EZAir Wireless.
The new slim universal wireless adapter that sits on top of the TV is connected to it via an HDMI port available in any flat screen TV. It incorporates a camera and the TV adapter, both connected wirelessly to a laptop PC.
The adapter is the perfect solution for those who wish to video chat with remotely located family members or friends and is agnostic to the remote side video gear (can be a Smartphone, PC or Tablet with webcam). Students in dorms, businesspeople on travel, grandparents and others, can now see and chat with their loved ones without the limitation of seeing them one at a time or forcing them to try and push themselves into the frame. They can all sit conveniently in the living room in front of the TV and participate in the call.
The adapter is also truly universal since users are not limited to a specific video call application and can use any application they prefer, such as Skype, Messenger, Google Talk, Facebook Video, Oovoo, Vidiyo, QQ and any new video application that will be available in the future. Read the rest of this entry »