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AT&T Lets You Pay-As-You-Go For Notebook DataConnect Coverage

Instead of signing up for a monthly plan on a notebook data card, AT&T now lets you pay for chunks of data beforehand. Unfortunately, it’s really expensive. You can get a day pass of 75MB for $15, a week pass of 250MB for $30, and a month pass of 500MB for $50. The prices aren’t…

Mixtape Generation Card Requires Obligatory “It Rocks” Headline

Koji Sueyoshi, you are a genius and your Mixtape Generation business card could only have been more perfect if it actually played a selection of 80s rock ballads and disco themes. [Direct Daily]

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. These cards are designed for HD video and are marketed with the new MacBook Pros in mind, since Apple’s new laptops finally (finally!) have SD card slots. 30MB/s is easily…

Crazy RFID-Enabled Poker Table Knows Every Card in the Deck

Australian Andrew Milner built a poker table equipped with RFID chips for every single card and HD cameras to track every movement. His setup can even tell where cards lie in a full, vertical deck. Tiny RFID cards are attached to each card, and movements are monitored with four separate HD cameras, all running into…

New NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 Has 2 Processors, 1GB Memory, Eats PS3 for Breakfast

The Skinny: NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800, launching in late Feb / early March, will be successor to the 8800 Ultra. With an estimated 30% performance increase over the aforementioned top end GPU, and apparent support for “Quad SLI,” it is certainly no slacker. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-goes-for-the-knockout-punch-with-new-geforce-880-257111 The Catch: Expect the 9800 GX2’s 1GB frame buffer, two 65nm GPUs…

16GB SDHC flash memory card spotted on German Amazon site [Amazon]

Pretec S-Diamond is the First miCARD Available

We too were groaning when the Multimedia Card Association approved yet another memory card standard dubbed the miCARD. But after seeing Pretec’s S-Diamond up close, we can kind of see why it’s useful. https://gizmodo.com/just-what-we-needed-another-memory-card-standard-265488 Similar in theory to the Kingston microSD bundles we looked at yesterday, the miCARD comes with its own USB adapter. In…

Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Notebook from Creative

Phew. Snappy name, eh? So snappy there’s no room on the headline for a bad pun. Lucky you, I say. Anyway, this is a new ExpressCard/54-compatible sound card that uses Creative’s X-Fi Crystallizer and 3CMSS-3D technology to give your laptop surround sound. There’s a 7.1-channel speaker docking module and all this creamy white goodness (which…

Kingston MobileLite 9-in-1 Card Reader is Small, Convenient

The main problem we’ve had with card readers over the years isn’t their performance—although the really cheap ones are quite lousy—but their size. Kingston’s solved that problem by making their MobileLite in the shape of a USB stick, which gives lets you easily take the thing around in your pocket or on your keychain. The…

Meizu M3 Music Card Preview

We’re actually fans of Meizu‘s players, despite (or maybe because of) their similarities to Apple’s offerings. Their latest, the Meizu M3 Music Card, has 8GB of storage, 1.5-inch display, FM radio, 20-hour battery life, and a $100 price point. You can get 2 and 4GB models for $65 and $80, which really makes this a…

Sony and SanDisk Reveal High-End SxS Storage Card

Although our gut reaction to seeing the words “new” and “memory card specification” in the same sentence is a hearty “WTF mate?!”, the SxS format seems to be different, and perhaps justified. Sony and SanDisk are teaming up to produce the SxS cards to be compatible with ExpressCard slots and be used in pro camcorders—like…

Meizu Minicard Details: 2/4/8GB and Cheap

You know that design winner of the Meizu’s design-your-own MP3 player contest? Here’s some actual details on it. The player has a 1.5-inch display at a 176×132 resolution, an FM radio, 20-hour battery life, and 2/4/8 GB versions. It definitely follows Meizu’s stance on having an iPod-like design but at a much lower price. It…

DS Lite Mini Card Holder

Essentially a Mini Me for your DS Lite, this Mini-DS holder holds your precious DS games so they don’t slip out of your pocket when you’re leaning over to snap your upskirt pics. As cute as having a little DS is, the fact that it can only hold two DS games makes this kinda iffy.…

512MB Xbox 360 Memory Cards Up For Preorder

Thanks to the fact that current Xbox 360 memory cards only hold 64MB and the Xbox Live Arcade game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night weighs in at 97MB, Microsoft had to do something. That something? Releasing a bigger memory card. Gamestop has it up for pre-order (ships 3/1) for $49.99. That’s $10 more than the…

Nintendo DS Motion Sensing Card

We’re not sure how useful this $25 third party motion sensing card would be, seeing as there aren’t any official DS games that support it. But if you’re a fan of homebrew games and swinging your DS around like a monkey with a Dickens’ novel, have at it. Perhaps if enough people buy this once…

Evergreen’s Memory Card Cleaner Wastes Your Green

Apparently both memory cards and memory card readers get dirty over time, as dust or liquids accumulate on the contacts, corroding the metal and affecting transfer speeds. Or so Evergreen wants you to believe. The reason? Their memory card reader pack. The set consists of a cloth and various sized “fake” memory cards with material…

Klingon Killer’s Gaming Network Card Gets The 10,000-Word Review (Verdict: Pricy, Effective)

If you read just one more sentence in this post, read the next one: This $300 network interface card is powered by a huge fucking “K” that lowers ping, so gamers can track their quarry across the ‘net more effectively. Gerry Block, the mohawked playboy of the IGN crew, whose blog has headlines like ”…

USB SIM and Multi-Format Card Reader

Not only can this transfer all your pictures off your digital camera onto your computer, you can use it to read your SIM card and back up your phone contacts as well. The card reader also comes with a free copy SIM Editor 3.0, software that lets you manage your contacts on your PC. As…

Fujifilm 2GB xD-Picture Card

Fujifilm’s announced a 2GB xD-Picture card for digital camera and camcorders—mostly Olympus and Fujifilm cameras, plus Olympus’s voice recorders. The press release says the 2GB card can store 1,640 5-megapixel pictures of sorority girls gone wild, or up to 58 minutes of drunkenly filmed 320×240 resolution movies. Add to that hours and hours of your…

Monopoly Replaces Cash With Debit Card

By replacing the cash in Monopoly with a Visa debit card in all future editions of Monopoly, Hasbro puts an end to almost a century of “Monopoly money” jokes and wasted minutes waiting for your sister to dole out $50 because she’s the chairman of the board. Instead of divvying up paper 500, 100s and…