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Besides greater capacities, faster transfer speeds, and novel designs, there hasn’t been much recent innovation with USB flash drives. Which is why the Paketta from King Jim is such a welcome break. With built-in Wi-Fi B, G, N hardware it can wirelessly broadcast its contents to PCs and mobile devices.
There are a few caveats, though. The wireless hardware needs power, and since there’s no battery on board, the Packetta needs to be connected to a USB port to broadcast. It also requires a special piece of software for any devices that want to access it wirelessly. And for the time being it’s limited to Windows 7 and iOS devices. But Windows 8 and OS X versions of the app should be available next year.
The other unfortunate feature is its price point. The relatively small 8GB version runs around £70, while the 16GB is about £105. Ouch. Apparently the moral of the story here is that if you want to save yourself £70+, learn to live with wires. [Packetta via Akihabara News]
So what’s the selling point meant to be, here? You have to plug it in like a normal USB stick anyway, and if you’re just using it to beam files you can do it for £150 less with google documents or dropbox. How did they convince people this would be a commercially viable idea?
this seems like the most pointless product ever when you consider that you can buy a 500gb wifi hard drive like the seagate goflex for just double the price which has a battery and 62 times as much storage.
This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen hahahahaahahahahahaaaaaaaaa
Everybody, guess what! I’ve invented the hover boards, but it needs wheels that are touching the ground to work!
A wireless drive that need wires and costs 105 quid for 16GB? Genius!
I’ll skip past the battery-powered Seagate Satellite WiFi 500GB for 125 quid (at Amazon) and buy 31 of these at ~£3300 plus a laptop to keep it powered on the go.
Hmm… I’d be interested to know the actual use for this aswell. Is it really achieving any more than a shared drive on a network?
My usb drive is plugged into my pc and shared on the local network already. It relies on the pc being on, just as this drive will do. Pointless.