We’ve seen more than our fair share of USB displays as of late, and on the whole they’re usually tiny — say, around 7-inches. Sure, they’re well-suited for someone who wants to get that Tweetdeck or their IRC window off of their main desktop, but that’s about it. It looks like Samsung’s poised to take the whole affair to the next level with its new 18.5-inch LCD display. By “improving the transmittance of the panel and the luminance efficiency of the backlight,” Tech-on! notes, the company was able to keep power consumption down to 6.3W — low enough that a forked USB 2.0 cable is sufficient to power the thing as well as supply data. The only drawback? Apparently the device uses an edge-lit backlight that limits the device’s lifetime to 30,000 hours compared to 50,000 for existing LCD monitors). According to the company, you can look forward to seeing these things hit store shelves sometime in 2011.

While we’ve got no way to confirm at the moment, here’s some proverbial food for thought. A friendly reader last night published in our comment thread for the two rumored Verizon-bound Motorola devices with the above picture (subtitles added by us), claiming the bottom image is the Droid 2′s upgraded QWERTY keyboard. The story goes that his friend had one but no other information is currently available — the font on the keys is identical, and the mic icon on the bottom left is distinctively Android. If it’s legit, we gotta say we’re hopeful; the keys look to have a more protruding center à la the CLIQ, which should make typing on the little guy much easier than before. And if it’s not the Droid successor, well, it’s still something we haven’t seen. Could this be the updated QWERTY-fied Android Read the rest of this entry »

While there’s certainly plenty to love about HTC’s EVO 4G, that 4G in the title is certainly one of the major draws. We’re guessing it’ll be a little easier to sell the things if customers can experience the wonders of WiMAX for themselves, so that’s probably why RadioShack is (according to our tipster) installing these Read the rest of this entry »

SanDisk has rolled out the Xbox 360 USB flash drive for the Xbox 360 console. The device allows you to save games, download content as well as access multimedia files without the need for a hard drive. Read the rest of this entry »

Power Quotient International (PQI) hits back with a new range of USB 3.0 flash drives called the Cool Drive U368. Coming in capacities ranging from 8GB to 128GB, these drives Read the rest of this entry »

Designer Wu Jiang has creatively created the U+ USB Hub and Disk Scanner that works in tandem with popular virus protecting software to safeguard your hardware. Read the rest of this entry »