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NetBlender has BD Touch technology that will work directly with BD Live and allow your iPhone or iPod Touch to interact with your Blu-ray player.  BD Touch would utilize the geo location features of your iPhone, the 3D sensors and easy to use QWERTY keyboard to enhance your experience.  This opens doors for you to enjoy a large amount of data trading between your gadgets.

You could keep detailed lists of your Blu-ray collection and get movie suggestions that match your taste.  While the movie is playing, trivia and extra information about the movie can be displayed.  Games and other features could definitely enhance things for you as well.  All of these things can happen as the Blu-ray is playing.

Also, your iPhone can be morphed into a lovely remote control for your Blu-ray player and keep things easily controlled from afar as you enjoy your collection.  It works over a WiFi connection, so no matter where you are located, if you have that, you can enjoy BD Touch technology fairly easily.

For a large company or a home user, the Fire-Safe waterproof hard drive comes in a nice size of 160GB and is claimed to be the world’s first and only fire resistant and waterproof hard drive.

Connects via USB, as expected, and allows you to backup your important files and photos while staying encased safely keeping your information until you need it. The company, SentrySafe, offers a support program that promises the will attempt to recover your data in the event of a fire or water accident.

Comes with backup software, password protection and data encryption to keep your data safe when not at risk of fire or water damage, too. A definite forethought, not afterthought, for data protection.

With this Neoprene Charger Organizer Bag, your wire woes will be no worry. Are you wasting your precious time untangling cords to all your gadgets, headphones and chargers?

If you travel often on business or just carry your music and gadgets everywhere you go, you’ll love the features of this handy bag. It has six fleece lined pockets and you carry it via the handle on top. It’s made of wetsuit grade neoprene to keep your gadgets safe from the drizzly days and any light impacts.

Completely machine washable and sized at 10″ x 11.5″, you will look stylish and organized with this cute bag. Spend just $30 on the bag, or if you are planning to give it as a gift, add only $4.50 to your order total and the item will arrive all boxed and bowed up with a navy blue box, green grosgrain ribbon and light blue crinkled shred filler to match the product site colors.

Honestly, so many say that RAID is a must-have backup choice but just remember a few things about it, before making it your number one solution.

RAID 1 is certainly great for helping you retrieve your information if the main hard drive fails.  Using a mirrored RAID can be a great choice if that happens but what about other situations?  It will not prevent malicious software issues that come upon you and attack your system, like viruses.

Why is RAID 1 a bad choice during those times?  Because, the way it works is to copy each and every file from one hard drive to the mirrored backup drive.  If the virus or malicious code is on your main drive, you get it twice, because it copies directly to your backup drive.

Your best solution in these cases, if not just drive failure, which RAID 1 is perfect for…would be a third-party application like Pexagon Technologies has available on the Store-It Pro 2.5″ Portable Hard Drives because you are choosing when to backup your information (with the press of a button) and you can choose only the most valid information to be stored (photos, music, documents) in case of a system crash due to a virus.