What’s Yoostar? In a nutshell, it lets you live your hollywood dream, in front of your PC. Yoostar is a kit comprising of a special USB webcam, a portable greenscreen and software that can insert your image into your favorite movies. From the video demo, we could see the host replacing Glover from Sesame Street, and then he tried follow the original conversations with Elmo.
You’ll get 14 classic scenes each of which is between 1 and 2 minutes long when Yoostar hits retail next month. The company has already secured rights to content from Paramount, Universal, MGM, Liongate and Warner Brothers. Don’t expect user-contributed scenes as they are a copyright no-no. Before Yoostar can upload new movie scenes, this could get old fast, but in the long run, social community will be created where other users can upload their clips, comment on them, share tips, and possibly compete in talent contests. Due to copyright restrictions, Yoostart ($169) will only be available in the States initially although plans to roll out this internationally is well underway. Video demo after the jump.
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We never saw this coming. If this isn’t some 2010 April Fool’s joke leaked too early, the i.Saw Chainsaw possibly opens a whole new category of USB weaponry tools. The i.Saw is reportedly no larger than the size of a regular keyboard, and it is built with touch plastic and lightweight alloy to reduce the weight for the chainsaw for office use(?).
The company almost has everything listed on their
website from dimensions to weight, guide bar length and different safety features. The only and most important thing left to answer is how they figured out feeding enough juice from a 5W USB 2.0 port to move those sharp chains at a speed that can cut through different woods. Unfortunately, the folks behind i.Saw hid their website’s WHOIS record so we couldn’t check if the same group of people has previously tried to pull hoax on the blog community. The device is listed for merely $59.95. You could sign up for pre-order, and wait to see if the i.Saw USB chainsaw will actually materialize in September – the estimated shipping month.
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Recently, Everything USB had a chance to sit down with Greg Morris, President & CEO of Nexcopy to chat about their latest flash memory duplicators. Nexcopy is readying their new 40- and 60-port USB duplicators, and we thought it a good idea to get some additional information. In the Skype interview, Greg discussed with us the scalability and strength of their thumbdrive duplicators, and he also offered insights into this mass niche market. Full transcript after the jump.
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