Nov 05
A new drive called Transporter Sync provides the convenience of cloud storage without the subscription fees, or the yucky government spying.
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Sep 14
Star Trek Into Darkness is now available on Blinkbox’s UK-based video streaming service. How did they announce it? In an awesome way of course. They hired illusionist Scott Penrose to fool a crowd in a mall into believing they were seeing a working transporter, straight from the Starship Enterprise.
The trick made it look like random people were being beamed straight across the room. Some of the bystanders were truly stunned by the illusion. It’s amazing what some people will believe. Everyone knows that you need a pad full of circles to teleport. That and a Scottish engineer. That’s the only way you can really transport stuff. Seriously, it’s a fun illusion, even if it is very obvious how they pulled it off.
They do some pretty great marketing at BlinkBox, don’t you think?
Sep 11
Teleportation is perhaps the dreamiest sci-fi invention ever imagined so it’s no surprise that when a Star Trek-style Transporter pops up in a middle of a mall and promises real life teleportation, a crowd forms to ooh and ahh and secretly hope that it’s real (no matter how unreal it is). Illusionist Scott Penrose created this teleportation prank that had people believing in all things Trekkie.
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Aug 06
Get ready for a five year canine mission that mostly involves your dog’s lazy butt sleeping on this Star Trek dog transporter bed. Because to dogs, sleep is the final frontier and they love to explore it.
How cool would it be to indoctrinate your pet into a love of Star Trek by buying them this transporter pad dog bed? Of course, you would have a constant fear of them just beaming elsewhere, and violating the Prime Directive, but you could always sabotage the transporter like in many episodes. At least it’s less work than dressing Fido like this…
This sweet dog bed will cost you $69.99(USD). Beam on over to Entertainment Earth and pre-order yours now. Fido will thank you for it.
[via Geekalerts]
May 29
Connected Data announces Transporter v2.0, focuses on user experience and mobile apps
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It’s been an exciting couple days for the folks at Connected Data. After entering into a merger agreement with Drobo yesterday, the company’s just announced Transporter v2.0 — the latest software for its cloud-aware NAS. To jog your memory, Transporter is a device that lets you share data online, Dropbox-style, without a subscription fee. It was launched on Kickstarter last year and priced at $199 for the basic hardware (BYO hard drive), $299 for 1TB and $399 for 2TB. Version 2.0 brings major user experience improvements on Mac and PC thanks to better integration with Finder and Windows Explorer, including right-click and drag-and-drop functionality. Users can now easily share links to their files and choose how their folders are synced (locally or remotely). The update includes new mobile apps which provide remote Transporter access and management from any iOS or Android device. Connected Data also made firewall support more robust for users regardless of their network environment. Transporter v2.0 will launch sometime in June — hit the break for the full PR.
May 28
Connected Data to merge with Drobo, bring Transporter features to Drobo products
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Connected Data, maker of Transporter, just announced that it’s entered into a merger agreement with Drobo. As a refresher, Transporter is a cloud-based file sharing appliance that provides Dropbox-like functionality without the recurring subscription costs. Drobo’s best known for its Ethernet, Thunderbolt, FireWire and USB-based multi-drive storage devices which offer seamless expandability. Presumably we’ll start seeing some of Connected Data’s file sharing features in upcoming Drobo products. The two companies have 30 days to finalize the merger process and perhaps even come up with a clever new brand — we vote for DroboPorter ourselves. PR after the break.
Feb 14
This Foldable Boat Is Great for Saving Space, Probably Less Great for Staying Alive
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For the casual seafarer with space constraints, Better Outdoors has come up with a creative, if perhaps terrifying, solution to a problem most of us never knew we had in the first place. Say hello to the Transporter: a box-like boat that conveniently folds into a box-like box for your space-saving, travel needs. More »
Jan 31
Late last year Connected Data’s Transporter, a private peer-to-peer storage solution, was revealed to the world through a Kickstarter campaign. Shortly thereafter we got to see the thing in person, and today those who funded Transporter will be happy to know that the company has begun fulfilling those orders. Not only that, folks who didn’t go the Kickstarter route can pre-order a Transporter (or two) from Adorama and Datavision currently, an you’ll be able to get one from Amazon, B&H Photo, J&R or PC Mall in the very near future. Interested? Prices start at $199 should you wish to supply your own 2.5-inch HDD, but those who don’t want to go the BYOD route can get a 1TB drive thrown in for 100 bucks more, and a 2TB version can be had for $399.
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Jan 10
[CES 2013] We are always reminded to back up our data from time to time, but most of us throw caution to the wind, adopting a “it will never happen to me” attitude. In fact, just this morning, my faithful USB flash drive died on me, and I regret not having a more recent backup of it. Having said that, your data storage options when it comes to backups are rather limited – place them on the cloud, or on a physical device. Both have their pros and cons, which could be why the Transporter was thought up of.
Basically, the Transporter will enable you to stash your files off-site, meaning that they will be placed on the hard drives of folks whom you are more familiar with than the back of your hand, and trust (maybe even with your life). How does it work? The Transporter will carry a standard hard drive within in 1TB or 2TB capacities, where it will “talk” wirelessly with your computer, letting you perform backups as though it was a standard issue portable hard drive.
When you save files onto the Transporter, those files will also be saved automatically onto the Internet to the Transporters of others whom you have selected. This way, you are able to retrieve files directly off your own Transporter, and know that there are backups stored on other Transporters by folks you know and trust. [Kickstarter Page]
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Dec 07
You may have missed Transporter’s unveiling on Kickstarter earlier today, so let us provide a quick refresher — it’s a device that, when used in tandem with one or more other Transporters, enables simple and secure peer-to-peer file sharing. Unlike many Kickstarter projects, however, Transporter’s already in the beta testing stage of development and the hardware is ready for prime time. We had a chance to see the thing in person this evening, so we figured we’d open it up and give you a glimpse of what lies beneath its onyx exterior. Join us after the break for our impressions.
Gallery: Transporter hands-on
Continue reading Hands-on with Transporter, the peer-to-peer social storage solution
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Source: Transporter (Kickstarter)
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