File Transfer with USB DataGadget

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Laptopical's Ian Bandy takes a look at a gadget from the chaps and chapettes over at Thinkgeek. This USB device can be utilized to connect two notebooks together, allowing the user to drag and drop their files from one computer to the other.

WithValentines Day just around the corner our thoughts turn tosharing more time with our precious loved ones - That's right ourlaptops :)

We do live in a connected age, there is little doubt about that.With only a humble network card installed I'm writing this frommy laptop in the middle of a wirelesscoffee shop with the full features of the internet and e-mailat my disposal, while enjoying a warming Soya Latte and listeningto the latest Joe Jackson album over head. Certainly a pleasantchange from the office.

So with all this Wi-Ficonnectivity, quite literally, flying through the air, why dopeople still insist on using small USB flash drives to transfertheir important data from laptop to PC and vice versa? These notonly wear out the shoe leather to get data from one place toanother, but they are getting increasingly tiny, and easy tomisplace.

If you need to regularly transfer data from one laptop toanother then a home or office network is the ideal answer, butlet's face it, it's a tricky task for almost everyone out there,and although every subsequent version of Windows make's iteasier, it's never going to be easy for noobs.

What to do then? Well obviously the boys at Thinkgeek.com havehad a similar thought and have come up with the "USB DataTransfer Device". Now this isn't exactly the snappiest name for aproduct that I've ever heard, and true it will win no styleawards, but what this little baby can do is just the ticket.

Take one USB cable from the device insert it into a PC orLaptop, take the other USB Cable and plug it into another PC andbingo, like love and marriage the two computers are as one.Instantly a nifty little pop up appears, and you can transfer files from one PC toanother to your hearts content.

Of course this box of tricks is USB2.0 for zippy transfers of 25mb per second, and its cablesstretch to 4 feet. When you're not using these cables they fitsnugly back into the roughly 4 inch square box.

Oh and I almost forgot there is a calming blue indicator lightthat will blink to let you know all is well with the filetransfer.

All in all, if you want to share data between your PCs and laptops then you can't go wrong with this great little piece of kit. Andthe price I hear you ask? A wallet friendly $49.99. More about the "USB Data Transfer Device" at Thinkgeek.com

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