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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    USB needs a host and a client. both an iPod and a camera operate in client mode.

    For this to work, you'd need an enclosure with a HD that can act as a host to talk to the camera.

    Or as both, so it can be connected to a computer later for uploading.

    A camera also does not automatically copy files to a USB host it is connected to. As an external drive this device is able to copy from other USB devices connected to it.

  2. When will people learn... by Stormwave0 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    When will posters/editors learn to use Coral P2P cache? Come on guys it's not that hard. All you have to do is add .nyud.net:8090 to the base URL. Look I'll even do it for you: http://www.techjapan.com.nyud.net/modules.php?op=m odload&name=News&file=article&sid=772

  3. Re:iPod ? by Quixote · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Could it be (and I'm stretching for the terms here) that this can act like a USB "master" (or host controller) and the iPod can't?

  4. Re:This is actually useful! by eno2001 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's damn smooth. :) Kind of like those laptops and PCs that will turn on just their DVD or CD players without having to boot the OS only cooler. MUCH cooler. But not as cool as the software defined radio peripherals mentioned (GNURadio) earlier today. Thanks for the clarification.

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  5. Re:AA is kinda low on power by rmarll · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The last AA powered hard drive based MP3 player I had ran about 7 hours under continuous use(spinning up every minute or so). I would suppose that if the drive were spinning continuously 1.5 - 2 hours would be reasonable figure.

  6. What about Bluetooth by SirLanse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can I get this and a camera with Bluetooth? Have it automatically download to the drive in my wife's purse or out in the car. (patent pending)