Here's Seagate's D.A.V.E. (digital audio-video experience), a hard drive with a tiny 3.5 x 4.7 x .47-inch form factor into which you can cram 20GB. It also gives you the ability to share stuff using its onboard Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. It's tiny, it cost less than $200 and is small enough to slide into that shirt pocket. Neat Stuff.
Welcome to Seagate's "D.A.V.E.": wireless portable storage [Scobleizer]












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Does Soble remind anyone else of Chris Farley's character from SNL where he'd interview people like Paul McCartney and say "hey, re-remember when you were in the Beatles? that was awesome!".
Talk about bad video taping, 2 minutes in the video and the still haven't shot the damn thing close up, just the Seagate guy waving it so you only get 1 second of viewing it. I give up.
OMG mrwolf710 I was going to reference the same exact Farley quote even before I read your comment! That's F-ing freaky man!
Scoble = Farley - Coke - Innate Sense of Humor
Georgi: the video player has a little bar that lets you scrub through the video (move forward through it). Click on that little bar and drag it forward. Stop when you see an image of the product.
There's a good shot at about 3:20 into the video with it next to a dollar bill.
Ok, other than the built-in peer-to-peer sharing, what's the big deal here (considering I'm already carrying around a 60GB iPod that looks to be about the same size)?
Sales pitch was WAY too long - couldn't watch it all - they need to learn that the market they are after also has a very short attention span for anything other than music, video and electronic social interaction.
This thing is perfect as iPhone companion, you can have it in your pocket and wifi or bluetooth connected with the phone to have all your pics and music there......
awesome
Scobleizer, that would be fine if I'm at home on my 15mbps connection but I'm at work on overloaded single T1 line; the only thing we can get out here other than dial up.
@ huygir
You don't see any value in a wireless portable HD in a small form factor?
The main issue is while its a cool little device, it will be obsolete as soon as all the next gen portable media devices start to do the same thing.
I'm no camera man...but put the GUY IN FRAME!
I would say this is hardly ground-breaking.
My Creative Zen Sleek has a 20GB hard drive and it only measures 2.3" x 3.9" 0.63"...
[Yeah, no BT or wifi, but hey, man, it's older, too, ya know...]
Remember when Intel (IIRC) was pushing their wireless Personal Area Networking (PAN)? This is just the (really small) fileserver for it.
Personally, I'd want something like this but with flash slots- say a CF and SD (SDHC) or two. That way I can have all my preferences around (bookmarks, Outlook folders, other documents, etc.) available on whatever computer I walk up to.
Yeah, data security becomes an issue...
This device is the same as Bluonyx by Agere Systems.
HAL: I'm sorry DAVE, you are neat but will be obsolete
Well, considering I can get a 16GB flash-based USB thumb-drive for just a hair over $200 on NewEgg, I think the hard drive in this is already pretty close to being obsolete. Flash drives seem to be getting bigger/cheaper faster than hard drives right now, so I'd imagine there'll be a $200 32GB flash-based thumb-drive sooner than a similar hard-drive based model.
Ummm...$200 ? And it has no video, no audio and it might go dead unless I recharge it?
No thanks, dudes. I've got an iPod with video, audio and 30Gb for a smidge more than DAVE.
Oh, and the one cool thing might be to be able to dump your camera onto it, but my CF is 4Gb and I also have a USB adapter for my iPod for more storage. So....why, why, why???
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