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my-Ditto: Back Up Flash Drive with My-Ditto Key – CES 2012

If you have a USB drive, you might also have data on the drive. However, just like hard drives, USB Thumb drives also can stop working. You could lose all your data in an instant. But what if you could save your flash drive to the cloud? That is the idea behind my-Ditto Key. You register […]

June 30, 2009

16 Tech Innovations that didn’t quite stick

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You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself – “Hey, whatever happened to…” Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn’t made right, or design errors brought it down. Maybe it was just […]