The IoSafe Solo 1 TB Fireproof and Waterproof External Hard Drive took a brutal beating by Maximum PC magazine. The hard-drive claimes to be fireproof and waterproof, so they set it on fire and then dunked it in a bucket of water. After that, they took the drive back inside and plugged it in to their computer and all the files were completely intact.

The one they tested was USB 3.0, but I could only find USB 2.0 on Amazon at the time of this post…but still with the same fire/water claims, as well as a one or three-year data recovery service (where they claim that if you can’t get your data off the drive, they can).

At first it appears as if the casing provides the defense, but the guts are where the protection exists. It’s wrapped in what appears to be a fireproof/waterproof bag. Regardless, it works. I would, however, question my working environment if I needed a drive to be able to survive all of that :)

Vudu

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Excellent experience with Vudu tonight. It’s now a part of most blu-ray players and we just noticed it on our PS3. They gave us one free movie to watch and we watched a 1080p version of “The Fighter” with a perfect stream. I paused several times, stopped it to finish watching later, and a little bit of RW/FF…with no issues at all. Not sure if the PS3 streams better than the Xbox or if Vudu is better than Netflix and Hulu, but it was flawless.


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Cell Phone UV-Light Sanitizer

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someone’s watching way too much porn on their phone to need this. (i bought three.)

Video: Moshi The Talking Digital Clock Review

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A video of my experiences with the Moshi Talking Digital Clock.

Some observations:

  1. Worked extremely well (excellent product for blind people!)
  2. There can’t be an echo in the room or it has difficulty understanding your voice.
  3. It could hear/understand me from halfway across the room (I didn’t test different lengths or measure from my recliner to where it sits on my media center)
  4. Had trouble understanding my boyfriend, who has a very strong Georgia accent. After he enunciated, however, it understood his commands.
  5. Its listening port is in the front, so you can’t give it commands from the back of it.
  6. Has a function to fall asleep to ambient noises (like birds and water), but I didn’t test those out.
  7. Has a full-featured alarm system but, since I won’t be using those, I didn’t test them out. You can use voice commands to set the alarm functions, as well.
  8. You have to manually set the date, instead of voice commands. I believe you might be able to manually set the other stuff too, but I don’t recall. The voice commands function was all I cared about :)