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Though USB Type-C aims to alleviate society’s USB-related pains — namely, getting the connector to fit into the port on the first try — the transition of all devices to Type-C will take a while. [...] 
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The USB Promoter Group has announced that the greatest invention in the known universe -- the reversible Type-C USB connector -- is finally ready for mass production. The USB Implementers Forum will now take the Type-C spec and start building devices, cables, and adapters that support the new reversible connector. We could begin seeing Type-C USB devices over the next few months, but it may take a little while for Type-C to reach critical mass.
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August 12, 2014 7:11 PM
No more getting the USB cable the wrong way 50% of the time or worse - if you need a flashlight to get to the back of the computer, like I do.
As the desktop world gets more wireless, the USB 3.1 might become the last cable to keep around the desk. Connecting your smart desk to your smart monitor, or something like that. It is a power cable that can do 'extra stuff'.
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Gone are the days when we carelessly throw away our batteries only to buy new ones. These USB rechargeable batteries are the ultimate solution.
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With an inexpensive USB OTG adapter, you can connect things like keyboards, USB hard drives, and even gaming controllers to your Android phone or tablet. Read this blog post by Sharon Vaknin on How To.
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December 28th, 2011 by: Technabob Filling electronic gadgets with liquid just looks like a poor notion.
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We’re not sure why anyone would want to own the “smallest USB stick in the world”, but if you wouldn’t mind owning one even if purely for novelty purposes, you might want to check out Deonet’s offering.
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USB 3.0 should become widely available next year as Intel builds support for the standard into its chips. Read this blog post by Brooke Crothers on Nanotech - The Circuits Blog.
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Somehow, even if we think we know which direction that USB cable is supposed to plug in, you always second guess yourself when it doesn't go in the first time.
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After more than a decade of fighting with USB's relentlessly superpositioning cables, a new cable standard is finally coming to market.
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Our long worldwide nightmare is almost over. The next USB plug will finally be reversible just like Apple's Lightning connector. No more blindly jamming the..
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December 8, 2013 10:49 PM
(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables) Oh thank the engineering gods for this one, or was it an engineer who simply innovated this solution because they were tired of the crappy status quo design? I'm thinking it was the latter.
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USB Flash drives are a great way of backing up, storing and carrying our data around. The need for USB flash drives can never be over emphasized, I won’t really have to go into that in this article.
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USB 3.0 solution specifically built to improve the performance of handheld mobile devices.The new West Bridge Benicia peripheral controller is a data transfer offload engine, optimised to enable mobile devices to double the I/O operations per second...
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I had to do a double take when I saw the iPad USB Flash Drive because 1st of all, the iPad doesn’t have any USB slots.
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One of the drawbacks to owning an older car is that it probably does not come with the latest entertainment system with syncing of smartphones and what not.
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If you’re in the market for a new USB 3.0 flash drive, Toshiba may have something for you in the form of the TransMemory-EX, a new USB 3.0 developed by the Japanese company with read and write speeds of up [...]...
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USB 3.0 offers data transfer speeds that are five times faster than USB 2.0, so why hasn't it caught on?
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