| FBiDrive Scores High in Wired Gadget Lab |
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| Friday, 28 October 2005 | |
FBiDrive Scores High in Wired Gadget LabNEWPORT BEACH, CA, (NAMC) - Wired Magazine's Gadget Lab reviewed the FBiDrive as a part of its regular print and online column focused on the latest in computing and consumer electronics. The FBiDrive is a portable security product manufactured by Newport Scientific Research, LLC of Newport Beach, CA. The review by Nicole Lee, written in the column's traditional tongue and cheek fashion, highlights the product's secured storage, web password manager, and advanced biometric fingerprint sensor which she prefers "to one that can be fooled by Gummy Bear copies of my prints." The FBiDrive sensor is not susceptible to being fooled by copies of fingerprint images or gels such as "Gummy Bears" which have consistently defeated other sensor technologies such as the less expensive optical scanners. Lee comments about the FBiDrive unit reviewed, "With a name like FBi, I expected this 2-Gbyte USB flash drive to be as secure as Fort Knox. It comes close." The portable storage on the USB 2.0 unit varies with models ranging from 128 Megabytes to 4 Gigabytes. "As a bonus, it held my web logins and passwords," commented Lee regarding the FBiDrive's onboard software featuring an encrypted password storage and bookmark utility which makes logging into web sites as easy as a click and a fingerprint. The software built into the drive provides security as well as convenience, keeping data locked away and inaccessible without a fingerprint, and defeating the growing threat of keyboard loggers which capture passwords as users type them. The FBiDrive Wired review scored the product at 8 out of 10 and was published in several forms including the Gadget Lab subscription newsletter, Wired.com web site, and a special newsstand addition called Wired Test which presents many high tech product reviews just in time for holiday purchasing. About Newport Scientific Research LLC Newport Scientific Research is a technology development company based in the Tech Coast of Southern California. The company's flagship FBiDrive product is available worldwide through direct sales, distributors, and VARs. FBiDrive and the FBi Logo are trademarks of Newport Scientific Research. All other brand names and trademarks may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). Contact: |
