The growing trend in technological advancement these days is either going green or going secure. With the BlackArmor USB Hard Drive, Maxtor steered its path towards the latter.

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Protecting the data on your pocket USB drive with a password, using an encryption program just didn’t seem good enough for the CHDT Corporation, so they decided to protect them with a PIN code too. It has advanced security features such as military-grade encryption, safekeeping of passwords and other informations and a feature that covers its tracks to be sure no one will be able to trace its presence after it is removed from a system.

Above all these top-securing abilities, the drive has a PIN pad, to protect, once more, the entire package of data with a password of 4 to 10 characters long. The Personal Pocket Safe™ is described by its manufacturers as “the world’s first encrypted, epoxy coated, pin-protected USB device”.

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 Mvix has just released a HD media streamer with quite usual features nowadays, like a HDD slot, Ethernet and 802.11b/g/n WiFi, along with a lot of supported file formats. The MX-780HD can play DivX, XviD, AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, AAC, OGG, AC3, MP3, WMA, JPEG and much more, it sports coaxial / optical audio ports and a front LCD display. It’s price isn’t that high and it seems to be worth $299.99.

How small do you think world’s smallest TV Tuner is ? Just look at the picture above to view Sharp’s latest, that’s even smaller than a ¥1 coin. The VA3A5JZ922 is 35% smaller than it’s competitors, with 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 mm. Also the 1seg tuner isn’t extremely pricy, at $185, but you have to wait a bit until mass production is September.

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It was the time for Paramount and Universal to publish their movies on a HD disk drive and now it seems they took action. Well, now it’s obvious what formate they have chosen once with HD DVD’s death. Yes, you guessed, Blu-ray is the winner.

Craig Kornblau, Universal’s President made a statement: “While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and catalog titles on Blu-ray,” so it’s official.

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