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External USB hard drives provide a quick and easy way to add storage space to a computer without the need to ferret around in the case, with the added bonus that they’re easy to move from one computer to another. But the inherent problem with removable storage is that it can be far more easily lost or stolen than an internal hard drive. Losing data is bad enough – especially if you’ve misplaced photos or precious documents – but its potential use if it fell into the wrong hands hardly bears thinking about. At about the size of two packs of playing cards, the DiskGenie is a portable hard drive with a difference. The slightly rubberised casing features a number pad, which you use to enter a PIN in order to access the files within

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The Chumby Classic isn’t our favourite gadget of 2010. To begin with, its chunky shape and squishy leather casing make it feel like a Fisher Price toy: My First Web 2.0 Widget Device, perhaps. Its sheer purposelessness makes it seem like it was bought from a joke shop.

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The Apple iPad will be coming to the UK ‘late April’ according to Apple, with both versions of the device (Wi-Fi and 3G) shipping at the same time. The US will get the Apple iPad first, however, with Apple announcing it is coming in its 3G guise to America next month, with the official US release date 3 April. Apple has finally given specific details of a launch after its website teased for months that it would be out in ‘late March’.

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Everyone wants security and reliability in their flash drive, until that security and reliability become a problem. Stuck with a flash drive in his possession, possibly containing incriminating evidence, Florin Necula resorted to his only viable option: he swallowed it . According to a U.S.

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Samsung has been coy about the release of its H03 pico projector. TechRadar first locked eyes on the diminutive device back in CES 2010. Even though this was in January, the company didn’t disclose the name to us – instead just let us hold it and look at it in awe. At its European conference earlier this week, we finally found out that it’s called the Samsung H03 pico projector and it also comes in black. The Ho3 offers up 30 ANSI lumens of brightness and is equipped with a USB port and a microSD card slot

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  What it means is anybody’s guess, but Sony has applied for, and received provisional approval of, a “universal game console controller” . In traditional patent-ese the application describes the device as “a universal game console controller that has an LCD presenting, depending on what type of game console a user has input, a controller key layout for a first type of game console or a controller key layout for a second type of game console”.  And universal here means just what you think it does. Sony intends the device, if ever built, to emulate controllers produced by itself, Nintendo, Microsoft (Xbox), Amiga (CD-32), Atari (Jaguar), Gravis (Gamepad), Sega, and Turbographics. (It’s so universal it includes consoles no longer on the market! How cool is that?)

Don’t get your hopes up here. Infinitec’s Infinite USB Memory Device , or IUM for short, is neither infinite or memory. Rather, it’s a wireless USB device that allows Wi-Fi data streaming from a host computer, which relegates the terms infinite and memory to the host. And that’s fine, so long as you know what you’re getting. The IUM is paired to a single host computer, where its access to the host’s storage is managed through software dubbed “Infinite Portal”

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This year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona is shaping up to be the best yet. But with a rather mute response to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series announcement, it’s taken another company to blow us away in the mobile phone stakes. That company is HTC and below are some beautiful pictures of its latest handset range. HTC Legend The HTC Legend is the Hero on steroids.

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The HTC Hero has been around for a while, and we’re waiting for an upgrade. Well, here it is – the HTC Legend, squarely picking up where the Hero left off. HTC is trying to make out to us that the Legend is not the direct sequel to the Hero, but rather a continuation of the ‘baseline’ set by that successful handset. And indeed, the Legend certainly has some upgrades – the first thing you notice is the whole body is hewn from aluminium, giving it a very MacBook look. But we’d know that characteristic lip at the base of the phone anywhere, and if you delve below the hood as well, you’ll see that the Legend has some similar specs coupled with some nice upgrades

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HTC has finally unveiled a new phone to follow up the success of the Hero – the HTC Legend . Although the company protests otherwise, claiming the Hero set a ’successful baseline for our other Android handsets to follow’, the design is similar with a 3.2-inch screen and protruding lip at the bottom of the device. Hewn from a single block of aluminium, the HTC Legend looks more like a shrunken Macbook, dispensing with the Teflon coating for something a little more stylish. It’s rocking the latest version of Android – 2.1 – meaning living wallpapers and integrated social networking via Friendstream – a new way of seeing all your Twitter, Facebook and Flickr feeds in one place. While the 3.2-inch screen size has remained the same, the overall dimensions of the HTC Legend are smaller than the Hero thanks to being built from one piece of metal.

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