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More cool gadgets on the horizon (via Slashdot) - Seagate has announced the DAVE (Digital Audio Video Experience) which is a small, portable hard drive which uses WiFi and Bluetooth to transfer data to your devices.

DAVE will come in the form of a slim, Motorola RAZR-sized drive enclosure that appears to be aimed heavily at the mobile phone market. Seagate states that DAVE will be "the answer" for providing more storage to mobile phones without having to bump the cost or size of handsets themselves, in addition to allowing service providers to increase music and video services without as much concern about available storage space. DAVE will also allow two-way communication from various devices, meaning that users will also be able to navigate the contents of the drive from their cell phones and laptops. Seagate expects DAVE's battery life to be able to handle about 14 days of standby and 10 hours of media streaming performance.

The capacities are pretty small at the moment - between 10 - 20GB, but I was thinking that it would be very handy indeed if cameras with built in wifi or bluetooth (there are a handful at the moment) could make use of this technology to download photos on the go.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070201-8753.html