IO Data Device has announced the suitably named “USB-USB,” a sort of one-touch backup device that…backs up. You plug a USB device, such as digital camera or whatnot into one end, and another USB memory device, such as a CD-RW or, again, whatnot, into the other end, press the button, and boom. No PC needed.
Though memory card backup devices like this have existed for years in the photography world, IO Data’s new unit can accept virtually any writable USB device to the “output” end – excluding DVD writers, for some reason. Mac users are also out of luck as well, because sadly there is no Mac hard drive support.
Read – Press Release (Japanese) [IO Data via Impress Watch]
Everything USB’s Ian Chiu deftly points out that this unit is the same one sold in the States as a Delkin (not buh; duh) model.
Read – Delkin Connects USB Devices Without PC [EverythingUSB]
