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Battery-Powered USB Enclosure

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

An anonymous reader pointed us to a story about a battery-powered USB disk enclosure. It operates on AA batteries. It's aluminum, and is sorta meant to offload data from cameras. It's only 2.5 inches, so that's not totally unreasonable, but I'm still struggling a bit with the 'Why' part of the equation.

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  1. Re:iPod ? by bamf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    so what has this that the iPod hasn't ?

    The ability to connect it directly to a camera, and copy all the data across at the press of a button.

    Something that's very useful to people taking lots of pictures and storing them in Raw format.

  2. Good for Photos on the move by KiwiSurfer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are times when I want to go on holidays and just leave the laptop home (or in the hotel room) and just take lots of photos. This HDD would enable me to just copy the photos to a HDD whenever I max out my memory stick. I think this is a great idea, espcially for people who don't use computers when they are on holiday - which is the majority of the digital camera users I know.

  3. I get it by Ever+Dubious · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're out with a digital camera and without your laptop. And you've filled the camera memory, or exhausted all the removable storage (flash) you're carrying. Connect the camera (or the media adapter) to the disk drive and hit the "copy" button and you're ready to take more pictures.