SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)

I prefer CompactFlash cards to SD, despite the bulk, for speed and durability. (Also, I shoot with big cameras that take big cards.) SD card version 4.0 fixes the speed issue, with transfer speeds of up to 300MB a second. More »

Hahahaha! Blockbuster Renting Movies on SD Cards! Hahahahaha! From Kiosks!

Oh, I hope whatever exec came up with this idea scores a huge bonus. Blockbuster is piloting a new program that will load a DRM'd movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. The future! More »

Nintendo Opens SDHC to Bootable DLC

Nintendo's decision to eschew a standalone Wii hard drive for the support of SDHC was a good one, as users can buy tiny and cheap 32GB SDHC cards to expand storage. But what just you could store was in question. More »

Wi-Fi MicroSD Card Makes Eye-Fi Look Obese

Japanese phone king KDDI is showing off a MicroSD card with built-in Wi-Fi, sorta like those photo-uploading Eye-Fi cards everyone loves so much. Actually, they're exactly like that, except, well, much smaller. More »

Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four microSDs In RAID

The new CompactFlash adapter from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once. More »

SanDisk Claims Title of World's Fastest 32GB SDHC Card

The new Extreme SDHC card from SanDisk comes in 4/8/16/32GB capacities and boasts speeds of up to 30MB/s, which SanDisk claims as the world's fastest. More »

New MacBook Pros Can Boot From Their Internal SD Slot

Aside from photo transfers and straight up storage expansion, the SD card slot in the new MacBook Pros has a single, extremely cool trick up its sleeve (slot?): it's bootable. More »

LaCie Data/Share SD Reader Callously Mocks the Sacred Taoist Concepts and Yin and Yang

USB flash media readers aren't exactly ripe for innovation, so it's rare that they surprise us in a way that doesn't inspire laughter. But 69ing two readers into one compact, featureless lump? That's kinda genius. More »

Rubik's Cube Card Reader Will Only Make You Look Smarter

Of course, it's not an officially licensed real Rubik's Cube (unless you're looking at the easiest Rubik's Cube in history), but Brando's "270˘X x 270 X Card Reader" comes close enough. More »

Motorola Sends Teeny Ear Clips In Huge Cardboard Box

Giz reader Thomas just received two 2-inch Bluetooth earhooks from Motorola—in a 320-cubic-inch box. As he puts it, "the package was filled with about 99% air." Haven't they heard of envelopes? More pics: More »

First SDXC Card Is The World's Fastest, Only Holds 32GB

SDXC, the new memory card spec announced at CES, promised exciting things, storage-wise. Pretec demonstrated the first card that'll support the standard, and at a mere 32GB and 50MB/s, well, it's a step. More »

Pen Reads Four SD Cards While Looking a Bit Like a Rocket

Thanko's 4-slot SD card reader/pen, but we're waiting for the 8-slot, double X-Wing version. No word on retail price, but we're sure it'll be available soon at various online import vendors. [Akihibara News]

Eye-Fi Doubles Storage and Adds Video Support

Our beloved Eye-Fis (SD cards that add Wi-Fi to any digital camera) have finally gotten the bump from their 2GB standard. Now Eye-Fi cards hold 4GB of photos and upload videos to YouTube/Flickr. More »

USB Cable Features Clever Inline SD Card Reader

Here's a simple, fantastic idea. This otherwise standard USB cable adorns its wire with an inline SD card reader, creating a 2-in-1 SD reader/USB cable. More »

RCA Small Wonder EZ209HD: $120 MicroSD High Def Recording

While RCA debuted their Small Wonder camcorders at CES 2008, the model they are showing off just a year later looks vastly improved. More »

New SDXC Memory Card Spec Supports 2TB Capacities

The SD Association has announced a new card spec dubbed SDXC (eXtended Capacity) that can support memory capacities up to 2TB with read/write speeds to 104MB per second. More »

World's First Single-Sided Blu-ray/DVD Hybrid Disc Unveiled

Infinity Storage Media has a hybrid disc with both Blu-ray and DVD data layers. This means that it'll play on your ancient budget DVD player but it'll also play in high-def in a Blu-ray player.

OCZ CrossOver Flash Drive Features microSD Expansion

If we looked between the couch cushions, we could probably find 20GB or so in various roaming flash media. Yet it all goes unused whenever we pull out the trusty USB stick.

Elecom Waterproof SDHC Cards Keep Wet Memories Dry

While they won't do much to salvage that fancy camera, Elecom is trusting that some of us will benefit from their waterproof SDHC cards.

Toshiba Pops Out 16GB microSD Card, Ultra-Fast 8GB and 16GB SD Cards

Sandisk may have a 16GB microSDHC card already a little sneakily on the scene, but now Toshiba's announced it's joining the game with one of its own. The card is compliant with SD memory standard version 2.00, as are the other two cards Tosh is making: The 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards with a maximum write speed of a speedy 20MB/s. All of these tiny memory units are due for production and sale over the next two to three months, so you'll be slipping them into your cellphones and cameras from early '09. [Toshiba]

Eye-Fi Anniversary Edition, 4GB Card for $100

There's really nothing wrong with the semi-perfect Eye-Fi, other than maybe that we could use more than a piddly 2GB of SD storage when we're away from our Wi-Fi network. To celebrate keeping the doors open for a year, Eye-Fi has announced the Eye-Fi Anniversary Edition card. It's a limited edition version of their classic Eye-Fi, doubled in size (features like geotagging can be purchased at an additional cost). You can pick up the Anniversary Edition at Costco for $100 or on their site for $130. We'll let you decide if that Costco card is worth it or not. [Eye-Fi]

Easy Hack Circumvents the Wii's 2GB SD Card Limit

If you've loaded your Wii with homebrew, or even just wanted to take advantage of one of your huge SD cards in the system, you've butted heads with the Wii's 2GB SD card limit. The console won't recognize anything more than 2GB, even if you've got a 4GB+ card loaded. But if you format that card with SDFormatter and load it with 2GB of dummy files, the Wii will recognize a 2GB card...which can then be cleared of of its contents and used as a 4GB card. Make sense? Don't worry, the link has a very clear tutorial. [CAG via Lifehacker]

Reggie and Miyamoto: Wii Storage Solution Coming, More Betterer Than a Hard Drive

The storage situation on the Wii is sorta abysmal, especially if you're an avid Virtual Console or WiiWare fan and have lots of games. Don't worry, Nintendo knows it. According to a translated interview with Latin American pub Club Nintendo, Reggie and Miyamoto say that you can expect an announcement about storage goodness in the future, since they're working on a number of technologies, but it won't be a hard drive. More »

Adapter Uses Six SDHC Cards For Voltron-Like DIY SSD Drive

We've seen them for CF cards—now, there's an SSD enclosure that will take up to six of the SDHC cards you have lying around and tie them into a single 2.5-inch SATA SSD. While it won't match speeds of dedicated SSDs (especially if the cards you're using aren't near the high end), the boys at Impress managed 111.4 MB/s read and 55.2 MB/s write times using six 8GB cards—not too shabby for a DIY solution that will save you some money (the adapter is $90 in Japan), especially if you're already swimming in big SDHC cards. [Impress]

SanDisk WORM Write-Once SD Cards Can't Be Altered, Last 100 Years

SanDisk has created the first write-once SD memory card after over a year of talking about it. The WORM (Write Once Read Many) cards cannot be altered or deleted and are designed for information that must be kept intact, such as electronic voting records and police work. They are only 128MB for now, but bigger sizes will likely show by the end of the year. SanDisk claims that the stored information will last 100 years, so if McCain is elected president, you'll have something to send your great grandchildren in Iraq. Pricing available upon request—yikes!—press release down below. More »

3.5-Inch Digital Photo Frame from HP Small but Chic

There's been a slew of Hewlett Packard products over the past few days and, although this digital picture frame is probably the smallest of the bunch, it's pretty damn cute. Available in Europe at the moment, the frame has QGVA resolution, is SD-, SDHC- and MMC-compatible, can hold up to 45 pictures, and costs $76. Like I said, cute. [CNET Asia]

Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card Helps Catch Dumb Thieves

That Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD memory card isn't just useful for uploading pictures automatically whenever there's a hotspot in range, it's also useful for catching thieves. Not all thieves, however, just ones stupid enough to take pictures of themselves using a camera they stole that has an Eye-Fi inserted. This brilliant guy made off with $1000+ worth of Alison's camera equipment while she was on vacation, only to be caught when Alison saw her pictures—plus some that didn't belong to her—being uploaded onto her machine. Thankfully none of those pictures were of the thief "using" her toothbrush, if you know what we mean. And we think you do.

Pocket Projector Shares Pocket Media

For those who are always looking for the most technologically advanced ways to make others fawn over their children, this mini projector may be just small enough to fit in a large pocket or small purse. Running on AA batteries and displaying all of your SD card-based media (unfortunately there's no codec list), we wouldn't recommend it for a home cinema projector, but it looks like a pretty fun novelty for $200. [product via shinyshiny]

Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card Autopsied

We're not entirely sure why you'd wanna go about pulling apart the Eye-Fi wireless SD card—it's pretty obvious you're gonna find a flash chip, and hey, a Wi-Fi chip, too. But someone did anyway! The NAND flash is from Sammy, while Atheros supplied the Wi-Fi module, its 802.11b/g AR6001GL radio on a chip. For more teeny-tiny teardown porn, hit up Ikontools. [Ikontools, Thanks Mitchel]

"Noise Killer" Panasonic D-Snap SV-SD870N Runs 100 Hours Per Charge

Panasonic's latest D-Snap audio player, the SV-SD870N, is debuting (in Japan at least) with a trio of cool features, though no Bluetooth: More »

Panasonic 32GB SDHC Card Fastest Yet

Panasonic's 32GB SDHC isn't the first one, but at class 6 (meaning it writes at least 6MB/s) it's the fastest 32GB card yet. [Market Wire]

SanDisk's 8GB Ultra II SDHC Doesn't Even Need a Reader

Making flash memory USB compatible without a card reader seems to be the hot thing to do nowdays, and SanDisk is following up on the craze with their Ultra II SD card with USB interface. It's 8GB, has a $99 MSRP, and can fold in half to reveal the USB connector that you can easily shove into the USB slot on your machine. Because if we have to carry around one more thing in our bags when making the mad dash to grab a seat at Macworld, we may just collapse halfway in and have to blog prone on our stomachs in the aisle. [BusinessWire via jkontherun]

Deskscape Card Reader Has Curious Bulges

This may not be the smallest or most advanced card reader out there, but the Deskscape sure has the weirdest look. Outside of that, its reading abilities are limited to memory sticks, MMC and SD cards, and it clocks in at $30.77. If you think the unusual design and multiple color options are worth that much cash, knock yourself out. I'll stick with smaller readers with more functionality— thank you very much. [GeekStuff4U via OhGizmo]