I actually though that someone mispronounced ‘External Hard Drive’ with ‘External Recycle Bin’ when I first heard about this. I mean I had heard about External hard drives many times but External Recycle Bin was a novel thing to hear about. Tempo’s new 250GB external hard drive which is enclosed in a trashcan-shaped box is an old concept with a new look if I have to say. When you delete a file on your PC that file is stored in the Tempo drive. The look of your desktop’s recycle bin to a hard drive is a pretty fine idea. And the unique thing with it is that it’s blue LED lights fills up the dark black area as more and more files are thrown into this external recycle bin. It is connected to your PC wirelessly via Bluetooth, so no tensions of any cables and all other stuffs. I look nice and I personally would prefer to have it in my PC. Let’s see if Tempo comes up with some more bright ideas
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needs a button so the janitor can empty it every evening
this is the dumbest shit ever. there is no way that you could fit a 250gig platter inside something that small let alone power it from batter AND light up all an LCD screen. oh you say they are leds? no they are way to small even to be 3mm leds. also bluetooth is slow as balls and would take forever and a half to transfer over end a 100m file
in reply to the dumbass before..
1. It's not dumb, it looks decent.
2. Laptop hard drives are 2.5" and would therefore fit.
3. Laptops put out a lot of power so they can run external and internal devices at the same time, most laptop batteries have over at least a 4 hour battery life these days.
4. The LED's look ok to me... Maybe because it's a small image and you're blind?
5. What century are you living in? Bluetooth has sped up a hell of a lot over the past few years.. A 100MB file isn't a lot any way..
6. Please get a life or get out more, you really need to see all the great technology we have these days, rather than putting it down on the internet before actually seeing it in real life.
Oh, another thing "to" is spelt "TOO" in "are way to small"
Anyway, great product and I'd like to see some more ingenious ideas like it in the future bringing some fun into the home/workplace/travel.
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In reply to the anon. above.
1. I do agree that the design is pleasant to look at, so no argument there.
2. A 2.5" laptop drive, however, is 2.5" wide and just under 4" long. Comparing the visual to the Sony laptop it's next to, the bin appears to be wide enough at the top, but not the bottom and it is significantly less than those required four inches (not including the extra couple of millimeters needed for the cables).Flash memory could fit the bill for power and size but despite how the prices have been coming down, it would still be quite expensive for 250gb.
3. The technology to transfer power over bluetooth or other low power radio signals is non-existent and since laptop hard drives use 5 volts and usually greater than 400mw. the battery that would be required to run that for any significant amount of time would require the majority of space in the unit leaving an insufficiency of space for a hard drive.
4. I can't comment on the leds, there are ways to spread light from an internally located LED/LED bank to make it look smoothly spread.
5. Bluetooth revision 2.1 (the latest) maxes out at 3 megabits per second. That means theoretical maximum throughput would be around 375Kilobytes per second and realistic is about 2 megabits or 250 Kilobytes a second. allowing for traffic overhead takes another chunk out of your speed. That 100mb file you where talking about deleting would, under ideal conditions take you almost seven minutes. Hardly what i would call fast.
6. I won't comment on, since it is a personal comment speaking poorly about someone you don't know simply because you disagree with him.
On the other hand, I do agree that the idea is cool and innovation is always to be encouraged.
Have a wonderful and enlightened day.
I completely agree with Anonymous
but why would you want to keep 250 gigabytes of garbage??
Just delete it after its in the bin on your pc like once a month or so
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I have to say, this is a terrible concept. The device serves no real function. If you are deleting files that size, just use the shift key so you permanently delete them.
If this were simply an external hard drive that had some other means of connecting to a host PC, in addition to the bluetooth, it might be useful. As it stands, this has very little purpose.
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