Now here's a simple and useful concept: a USB hub sold with a Y-cable. This makes it possible to run power-hungry gadgets that usually don't play well with unpowered hubs—think optical drives, scanners and 2.5" SATA drives—without mains power.
Product Page [Brando via Gizmodo]
To nerdilettantes, Century's triple CF card SATA adapter is Manna from Heaven, which is to say, from Asia. Jam three compact flash cards in, and there you go—an instant solid state disk drive. The problem is that it's $200, which is pure comedy, especially given the 20 MB/s throughput it'll provide.
On the other hand, real SSDs have even greater markups over CF, so if you're after size instead of speed, why not? Just don't think of those increasingly-cheap terabyte hard drives; remember, this is a holy war.
Product Page [GeekStuff4U via Gizmodo and Engadget]
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