DigiMate III: USB Card Reader on Steroids
- September 18th, 2006
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USB card readers are handy, handy gadgets. You’ve got your cellphone, Treo, who-knows-how-many digital cameras (Five for yours truly), and they all take different types of removable media. Reading and writing data to these little silicon wafers is the job of your multi-card reader, but that’s about all it does.
Enter the DigiMate III. It’s a USB-2 multi-card reader (SD, MMC, MiniSD, Memory Stick, CF, Microdrive, XD), but it’s also got a touch screen for previewing and manipulating your data, as well as support for a 2.5″ laptop harddrive, and a battery pack, so you can back your stuff up on the go. It’s not just an interface, it’s a data manager, and looks pretty slick to boot.
The DigiMate III costs less than $50 from USB Geek, and works with your various flavors of Windows and Mac OS.
DigiMate Touch Screen Version [USB Geek]
Wow, for $50, it sounds like a pretty useful device.
This’ll be useful for getting my cellphone pics and videos off of that tiny card.
It’s not a real touchscreen. And the display is like an old-school LCD, but I suspect OLED or similar (colour).
Backing up stuff to a HD sounds awesome, and at 50 bucks, it’s downright cheap… Great idea, hopfeully great execution :-)
Not all that clear on this one. It looks like it reads the card independant of the computer, but you don’t mention a hard drive (and the price is too low to have one). Does it connect to a computer through a USB cable? Or does it just allow you to move things around on a card?
You put your own 2.5″ hdd in it
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pretty neato