HSTi Wireless Media Stick nixes the need for dedicated storage drives

The banners aren't even officially up in Vegas yet, and already we're catching a drift of what all will be unveiled in the days to come. Take this Wireless Media Stick for example, which is HSTi's way of telling you that a dedicated storage drive beside your Blu-ray player or media player is completely unnecessary. Put simply, this device (and the accompanying software, we presume) plugs directly into any USB-enabled disc player or media streamer that's connected to your television; from there, you can easily stream media that's already shacked up within your main PC to your TV-connected device(s), which cures the problem of having your media fragmented between varying drives. We're still waiting to hear exactly what kind of technology this thing relies on (we're guessing 2.4GHz), but hopefully we'll find out more (along with a price and ship date) real soon.

[Josh123 Posted Jan 4th 2010 7:16AM]

STi, lol

[Oli D Posted Jan 4th 2010 7:44AM]

Good won?

[Jeff P Posted Jan 4th 2010 9:31AM]

@Oli D
Good Jaun!

[Alex Posted Jan 4th 2010 8:02AM]

Good 1.

[hq Posted Jan 4th 2010 8:08AM]

And it resembles the engadget logo too! AWESOME!

[hq Posted Jan 4th 2010 8:09AM]

@hq: *part of the engadget logo

[jcpb Posted Jan 4th 2010 9:03AM]

Gud 1.

[Billy Posted Jan 4th 2010 9:12AM]

Good fingernails.

[Oli D Posted Jan 4th 2010 9:44AM]

Good yawn

[pmckinnon Posted Jan 4th 2010 10:18AM]

This is so obvious I can't believe nobody thought of it before...

[jcrash Posted Jan 4th 2010 11:34AM]

Some devices reformat the external storage for encryption. I doubt this is gonna work with my Dish Network EHD.

[HektikLyfe Posted Jan 4th 2010 1:45PM]

Please help keep hand models employed. Dang.

[hellfroze Posted Jan 4th 2010 1:50PM]

What the hell? This sounds pretty magical to me! If it really works as advertised (acts as a virtual USB drive, bridging network shares???) then my mind is boggling at potential uses...

[kojo87 Posted Jan 4th 2010 2:14PM]

if this can plug into my WD HDTV and stream videos from my desktop i will have to seriously look into this.