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The world’s fastest high-capacity CompactFlash card? Yes, please! SanDisk has just taken the CF game to an entirely new level, doubling the capacity of its current highest Extreme Pro offering by dishing out a 128GB model here at CES. The Extreme Pro is definitely the card of choice for the high-speed cameras here at Engadget HQ, and for those who’ve outgrown their twin 64GB setup within their D3S, you can soon pop in a pair of these bad boys for a nominal fee. The card touts performance as high as 100MB/sec (write), a Power Core controller and a UDMA-7 interface, perfectly suited for capturing hours of 1080p footage. Oh, and speaking of that nominal fee — it’s expected to hit retail “later this year” for $1499.99. Yeah, a grand and a half. But hey, you get what you pay for. In less enticing news, a pair of new flash drives are also being launched this evening, the SanDisk Ultra and Cruzer Edge. The Ultra offers transfer rates as high as 15MB/sec, ships in capacities ranging from 8GB to 32GB and will cost between $44.99 and $109.99. The Cruzer Edge reaches from 2GB to 16GB and will set you back between $12.99 and $79.99. Check out the full releases after the break, and though we shouldn’t need to advise you, we’d recommend you start pinching those pennies dimes soon.

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SanDisk reveals $1500 128GB Extreme Pro CF card, Ultra / Cruzer Edge USB drives originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Who says you have to wait until NAMM for new audio gear? Blue Microphones is on-hand here in Vegas to introduce its newest and Yeti-est USB condenser microphone to date: the Yeti Pro. Picking up where the original Yeti left off, this professionalized version offers a 24-bit / 129kHz digital recording resolution, analog XLR output and a proprietary triple capsule array. We got a chance to fondle a unit a little early and, as expected, it feels decidedly top shelf. Knobs turn smoothly and with just the right resistance, stand is heavy and secure. It’ll ship later this month for $249, and you can catch the entire release just after the break.

Continue reading Yeti Pro USB condenser microphone touts 24-bit / 192 kHz digital recording, XLR output, we go hands-on

Yeti Pro USB condenser microphone touts 24-bit / 192 kHz digital recording, XLR output, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One-touch backup? Pssh. That’s so 2010. Lexar is revealing its second CES introduction this morning with the uncovering of its Echo MX and ZX high-speed backup devices. Both units provide ‘no-touch backup’ along with 128-bit AES encryption, with the MX offering an always-on capacity meter, built-in Echo backup software and speeds of up to 28MB/s (read) and 10MB/s (write). It’ll play nice with both Mac and PC platforms and will ship later this quarter in capacities of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB (priced from $44.99 to $499.99). Taking things down a notch (from a volumetric perspective, anyway), the ZX USB nub is designed to remain plugged into your system at all times, continually backing things up in the event of an all-too-sudden disaster. This guy should ship prior to the summertime in capacities of 8GB, 16GB and 32GB, with prices ranging from $44.99 to $139.99. The full release is after the break.

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Lexar reveals Echo MX and ZX USB ‘no-touch’ backup drives originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s not iPad nano watch money — seriously, what is? — but with hours to go before the final bell, USB sniffer OpenVizsla has exceeded its initial funding goal by more than 400 percent. That’s over $70,000 as of this writing, with about 510 backers including Stephen Fry, who was pretty vocal about his support (that must help). If you’ll recall, the project — from iPhone dev team and Twiizers virtuosos pytey and bushing — aims to make a cheap USB analyzer that can help decode proprietary devices, the popular anecdote being it’s the same concept used in the Kinect hack how-to. It’s not too late to pledge, of course, and doing so will get you some special goodies. Need more convincing? We’re gonna embed Alma the dog’s video debut after the break.

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OpenVizsla USB sniffer meets its funding goal, and then some originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sleep. It’s where some get to relax, some get to be comfortable, and some get to be a Viking. But, for others, that overnight period can be a stressful time, full of tossing and turning and mornings highlighted only by ground beans and hot showers. For those unhappy souls there are ever more dreamtime gadgets working to help the situation and turn morning monsters into drowsy-eyed angels, devices like the FitBit, and latest among them is WakeMate, a $60 accelerometer-having wristband that charts your nocturnal sleep patterns. Sadly, we’ve found it can also be responsible for some early morning spikes to our blood pressure.

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WakeMate review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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