http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
Indeed! A very interesting concept. Hopefully clients are released for Linux and MacOSX, as this makes sharing data a snap.]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
Sweet. Give it support for OSX and I'm in.]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
I know right, I didn't know Fat Joe and Terror Squad was this big in the tech industry.]]>Jun 29th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
Probably pointless for the XBox. But there are probably other devices that support USB mass storage devices, but don't support network streaming. This would probably be useful for them. I know the original WDTV box didn't have network support.

Although I think the pairing is pretty silly. I'd rather see a wireless/wired usb network adaptor that automatically scans and converts a SMB network into a file system. That would seem to be more useful (and system agnostic).]]>Jun 29th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Shame it relies on an internet conection though.

A stand alone connection (of whatever kind) between host pc and the client would be better in my opinion, even if it required two dongles.

I'd rather be able to do this where I don't have an interent connection, as well as where I do.

Best example: At school, WiFi is locked down. Only accessible by school PC's, however much you beg and bribe IT staff. I would love to be able to transfer files between my netbook and school account, but obvioulsy don't have the connection needed to do it with this device..]]>Jun 29th 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/i dont think it does .. when the USB is powered up ( by what ever machine you plug it into) It simply creates a connection ( via WiFi probably) to it's "Home" device.
A virtual cable between devices without the set up hassle ..

I would like to see this working 'remotely' !!]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
So if you're not in range of a Wifi signal...no data? The point of this?]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
To stream media photos, music and video back an forth to the access point but, have it appear as a USB. It's for the people that can't figure out how to use WMP, Tversity and all the other streaming methods out there. It's the kind "throw money at it" solution...]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
From the video I would say this is simply creating an ad hoc connection from the laptop's wifi to the Infinitec UIM. As long as your laptop is close enough to the UIM, you will be in range. The "pairing" is nothing more than the ad hoc network setup happening under the Infinitec software. The software then sets a shared folder for the UIM to look at. Nothing spectacular here. I could see the UIM being hacked to simply connect to your house wifi and have access to all the shared folders on your network. I need to look at their website a little.]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/think! oh right you dont have to write to a usb drive which takes longer than just streaming some content you will be temporarily using]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
It has to be driven by some sort of communication ie: Bluetooth, or Wifi, or hard wired..

It uses some sort of pairing to the host controller.. like Bluetooth.

but transfers like wired speed...its like... iSCSI / hamachi style VPN / dropbox / security key...thingy...



]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/]]>Jun 29th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/ Thats funny is entered twicw]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
As far as you know the pictures are on the usb drive...

Sorry not convinced.]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/I agree. I cannot understand why the tv's input switches after they select a video to play.
After the trailer ends, we don't see a transition back to the Xbox interface, instead there's a cut scene.
Also, if you pay attention to the laptop with which he initially pairs this device, you can tell that the internet connection is not enabled: the taskbar network icon shows that it is not connected to an access point and if it had an ethernet connection, there would be a relevant icon reflecting that (unless that specific icon is set to 'always hide' in the taskbar preferences). Of course this doesn't really mean anything definite. Merely speculating.]]>Jun 29th 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
I'm not familiar with the XBox in particular, but on some TVs when you switch resolutions the input screens/labels pop up briefly. IF the Xbox interface was in 720p and the video was in 1080p (or vice versa), starting the video may cause the TV to display the input/resolution information.]]>Jun 29th 2010 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/We didn't show the music as wanted to keep the demo short. We will make more movies showing more of the features and functionality over the next couple of weeks and post them to YouTube.]]>Jun 29th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/It does seem a little fishy that wi-fi was turned off on the laptop, but the usb stick could have been communicating over bluetooth. Also, I noticed that the lights actually aren't turning on but they were always on, the camera is adjusting for brightness and the lights appear to come on when the screen goes black. You can see after a few seconds into the video the lights appear to dim again when the screen brightens.]]>Jun 29th 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
We cut the avatar clip short as wanted to video to only be a couple of minutes long.

Regarding the Pairing Process, This is done over USB which is why the IUM needs to be connected at this point. WiFi is not required at that point.]]>Jun 29th 2010 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
Music, Pictures, Video etc from any pc to the xbox

Also a usb device is limited to 16gb how is that unlimited?]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/]]>Jun 29th 2010 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.36387]]>Jun 29th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
Man, I love DX.

Nice catch, man. ]]>Jun 29th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
It's a bit nifty but what if you don't have wifi? And you can't take the drive out of range of the laptop, unless there is some kind of network streaming involved.

And being a pedant, how is this infinite? Does the laptop have infinite storage? If so, I want one of those laptops that doesn't exist.]]>Jun 29th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
I can see the benefit, but surely the setup is more complicated than demonstrated? How do you setup the wifi connection?

BTW is it two way? Meaning can the Xbox install games and saves etc?]]>Jun 29th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
Regarding the XBOX saves, we are still investigating if we can support the requirements for storing save games etc as very specific implementation. It will not be there for launch however hopefully something we can provide later. ]]>Jun 29th 2010 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
I'm being overly pedantic now but one could argue that this is a zero memory stick as it doesn't actually add any storage at all - it's a wireless USB pass through to other storage devices!

I'm simplifying now and being a tad unfair I know as this has no bearing on the quality or function of the product but the name isn't strictly accurate :D

(BTW can I have a free one please :D)]]>Jun 29th 2010 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/
I can get a couple of USB terabyte drives for that, and have the advatange of storing a whole load of files that I can access via any networked machine, or take it with me without needing a wifi connection or a laptop!]]>Jun 29th 2010 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/infinitecs-infinite-usb-memory-drive-delayed-until-august-sh/Jun 29th 2010 2:47PM