With charging and hosting, this powered hub arrives with a dedicated power adapter to ensure reliability when connecting multiple accessories and devices. One of the key features of the hub is the per ...

This four-port USB hub cube from Brando almost makes sense. You see, the top two ports have on / off switches which, if you use USB to charge things, may be a useful feature. But then we gotta wonder ...

The Sabrent 7-Port Hub with Switches (HB-3A4C) is just like our popular and convenient 4-port switchable hubs but with even more ports. This one has three 5Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen 1×1) USB-A ports, capable ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

[Befi] wanted to add a second stage backup disk to his ODROID embedded-board server, which typically draws ~1.5W at idle. After adding the disk, he saw power consumption increase by 2W when the new ...

A device that allows one or more USB peripherals to be connected to multiple computers, one computer at a time. For example, a USB switch allows sharing a printer or external storage drive with two or ...

Vampires don't just inhabit the night and your AC power strips. They come in USB flavors, too, and so far only Buffalo seems to be doing anything about them and their wasteful ways, introducing the ...

As both desktop and laptops continue the race to get thinner and sleeker, there has been a victim watching from the sidelines: the USB port. Whether it’s having fewer ports on the computer or ...

The USB ports in a computer are used to connect different devices via a USB cable. These devices can be mice, keyboards, printers, etc. Desktop computers and laptops have a limited number of USB ports ...

Think of this valuable little gadget as a traffic controller for your tech, restoring functionality and making sure signals go where they’re needed. As new tech shrinks each year, essential ports like ...