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hi I'm Steve Smith from Cult of maac.com
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if you haven't guessed it already I love
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my iPhone but there's never enough
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storage for films and all of my photos
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when I want to travel well a recent
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Kickstarter is here to help the I stick
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from hyper the company behind the
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batteries and hard drives for MacBooks
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have created a USB stick which is Apple
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certified both with a USB connection and
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a lightning connection to work with both
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your iOS devices and I've been lucky
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enough to get my hands on an early model
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so here is my I stick I've got the 32
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gig version of it so thanks a lot to the
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guys over at hyper for sending this over
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for me to test out as you can see it's a
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very minimal design you can get this in
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a couple of colors including white black
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silver gold and a space gray all
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depending on how much you've donated
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onto Kickstarter the kickstarter was
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originally looking for $100,000 which
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currently at $900,000 trying to reach
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one of its stretch goals of 1 million as
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you can see at one end it has the
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lightning connection then using the
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simple slider on the top you can slide
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it across to reveal the USB connection
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now this is only USB 2 as when it was
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certified by Apple this is what it
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included and it would take a lot longer
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for them to put in a USB 3 but it might
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future and as you can see the design is
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reminiscent of the old iMac controllers
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once connected to the iPhone this green
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LED indicates that it's connected and it
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opens up the I stick app so you can back
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up some of your photos and videos from
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iPhone also you can saw videos pictures
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music and documents onto the I stick
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itself as you can see I put a few images
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and videos on there just to test it
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out takes a couple seconds to load up
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but as I said this is coming from the I
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stick and not on the native hard drive
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once I'm there the videos play very
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nicely as you can see there's no issues
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so Apple finally previewed their latest
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update to the Mac operating system 10
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your C there's a little bit of a lag
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when you Skip Along the
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video but I'm sure it's nothing they
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couldn't improve in the future as I said
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this is a development
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model with pictures again it does take a
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second or two to open them up but this
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is from one of my dslrs so it is a big
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image file as you can see you can zoom
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right in see all the all the fine
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one of the nice features that I liked is
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the fact that you can back up your
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contacts so if you're in an area that
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doesn't have any internet availability
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and you can't get to your iCloud you can
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contacts you can also share pictures via
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message mail or even airdrop along with
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copying connecting the I stick to your
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laptop or computer is as easy as any
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other USB stick just insert it into the
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computer computer and it'll open up like
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a usual USB drive and you can copy
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videos photos documents and music
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over now to the negatives I did have a
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few issues when skipping movies along so
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say I wanted to watch a video from
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halfway through every now and then the
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audio would go out of sync which was a
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little bit frustrating but again I think
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this may be fixed by the time it comes
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to release also it would have been nice
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to get a USB 3 again this may be
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something they do in the future but
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overall a very nice product and one you
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should definitely give a try when it's
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released well that's it for today but
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make sure to check out the kickstarter
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link below there's just over a week left
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to get your hands on one of these Nifty
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little gadgets so what do you think of
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the I sck will you be picking one up at
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release or maybe you pledged already to
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get one of the early discounted models
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