Electronista reports that Wearable began shipping their AirStash wireless flash drive today. Those concerned about the lack of an SD card slot now have a highly portable way of accessing media on SD/SDHC cards wirelessly.
The AirStash is effectively a portable WiFi access point with an SD slot. It has a pop-out USB plus for easily loading files from your computer to an SD card. Then carry the small unit with you and access it as a wireless network through the iPhone app. It has its own battery, so it doesn't add any extra drain on your iPhone. It connects at 802.11g rather than 802.11n, so don't be expecting 720p HD video on an iPad. But they claim a full 30 frames per second at 640x480.
The AirStash supports a wide variety of video, audio, and image formats, but surprisingly also claims support for web pages, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, PowerPoint, and Acrobat files. Since it acts as a WiFi access point, it should let you take extra documents with you on a trip and share them with every laptop in the meeting.
Don't have a DVD system in your car? Your kids in the back can watch movies on their iPod touches streamed from an AirStash as seen in the video below:
cemccon
March 17, 2010 at 5:26am
Or, you could buy a SPRINT Overdrive™ 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot by Sierra Wireless, which has a MicroSDHC slot built in. That way, you can surf the Web from your iPod / iPad, too, as well as access additional information stored on the MicroSDHC card. Of course, you'll have a monthly fee for this, which you don't with the Airstash...
FineTunes
March 16, 2010 at 11:33pm
If you read closely you would have seen that it is the trailer for Alice and not the entire movie. Shouldn't be a problem.
kevinmd63
March 16, 2010 at 9:00pm
A useful device and obviously another way for people to move files "illegally" from one device to another. Interesting that the video presentation showing off the devices ability is playing "Alice in Wonderland" a movie that is still in theatres and obviously months away from digital release in a "legally" obtainable fashion.
