If you have a computer that has slow wireless networking connectivity, you can always change the card out, but for some people that isn’t the answer. A USB network adapter that supports the faster tech might be easier.

Trendnet is here to help and they have a new USB network adapter that is dual band and will work at 2.4GHz or 5GHz. That means that HD video and other bandwidth heavy things can use the 5GHz band. The adapter has WPS for easy setup and a MIMO antenna for the 450Mbps transfer speeds. It will cost you $90.

The Archos 7-inch Android tablet which first showed up in January is now shipping, so if you have been waiting, you won’t have to wait any longer. To refresh your memory, the Archos 7c features Android 2.1 and a 7-inch 800×400 capacitive touchscreen display as well as 8GB of RAM and it is expandable with a microSDHC slot.

The device supports 720p video playback at 30fps and supports video formats like .mpa, .mkv, .mov, and .flv. Audio support includes MP3, WMA, WAV3, APE, OGG, FLAC and AAC3. The USB port can also act as either a slave or host and incorporates Wi-Fi 802.11b/g.

It may not look like much, but this is the first USB 3.0 video card. And don’t worry, you don’t have to sacrifice image quality and frame rates with this device because USB 3.0 has enough bandwidth for even multiple HD monitors. Awesome. This USB 3.0 video card from Sunix has a GPU either from in-house or SMSC.

The adapter draws just 400mA current, helping with backwards compatibility. That means that the dongle will work when plugged into a USB 2.0 port. The max resolution the adapter can handle is 2048×1152 and the HDMI 1.2 connection.

If you are the paranoid type that needs to know what’s going on in every corner of the house, then check this out. The Wall Hook Camcorder is perfect for either catching your cheating spouse, or just for watching people put their coat on.

Hopefully no one covers the camera with a hat though. The device is charged via USB and records audio and takes VGA resolution color photos, it can also record video in the AVI format at 28 frames per second. All of the information is stored on a microSD memory card and the manufacturer has thrown in a universal charging adapter for you as well.

Viewsonic has been creeping into categories where it hasn’t traditionally played over the last months. The company now offers things like netbooks and notebooks and has unveiled its first network media player.

The device is called the VMP75 and it can stream just about every audio and video format around. The system can stream online content like Netflix, YouTube, Live3655, Flickr and more. You can also shoot media on your PC over the to the TV in the living room.

Today we were able to try out the Samsung BD-C6500 1080p Blu-ray player, one of Samsung’s latest line of players featuring high-definition video along with the Samsung Internet@TV. The new players do a good job of grasping onto the future of digital media by bring internet connectivity into the player and directly into your TV.

The BD-C6500 player features the ability to playback full Blu-ray 1080p HD video along with Dolby Digital sound and output it through HDMI, S-Video, Optical and 7.1 analog audio. What’s really interesting about this player however is it’s integration to the internet and online media.

Atlona is a major purveyor off just about any converter or adapter the average geek could need for a myriad of uses. The company is especially keen on helping geeks get their video and audio they crave from their laptops onto the HDTV in the living room

Atlona has unveiled a new VGA to HDMI scaler/converter called the AT-HDVieW. The adapter can take the audio and video from a notebook that has VGA only and turn it into an HDMI signal that can be sent to your HDTV.

Warpia has unveiled a handy USB audio/video adapter that allows you to hook up any PC to your TV using a USB PC adapter and a display base station that’s attached to your TV through VGA or HDMI. This is just what many of you have been looking for since the ports on your PC and TV probably don’t match.

The package comes with a wireless PC adapter and the display adapter and retails for $179.99. The adapter has about a 30-foot operating range, and supports video only up to 720p resolution, so you won’t be getting High Definition video.

It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a truly useful display adapter. Sewell’s latest will come in handy if you need to forcefully push high-def signals through USB. The Minideck USB-to-DVI / VGA / HDMI (video only) adapter uses the DisplayLink DL-195 chip, which gives you support for resolutions as high as 2,048 x 1,152, so 1080p and 1,920 x 1,200 LCD monitors are taken care of.

Pretty cool. And it doesn’t matter if your PC is new or old. Since it doesn’t require a newer Core i7 rig to operate, so your old laptop should be able to handle powering a 24-inch LCD via a standard USB socket.

Seagate’s latest FreeAgent Theater+ HD network media player will spice up your living room increasing the maximum resolution for video to 1080p, with support for DTS and Dolby Digital audio. If you have some RJ45 cables, you can connect the FreeAgent Theater+ HD to your home network via Ethernet, where it will stream content from different computers over the local network.

The optional 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter makes it handy to go wireless, occupying one of the three available USB 2.0 ports. The remaining ports can be connected to portable hard drives if you want additional storage. A driveless kit will cost you $150, while one with the 500GB FreeeAgent Go will retail for $290.

Running multiple monitors on a single computer is just plain cool. At least it is for us here at the ‘Brick, and the more the better. So, when we heard about HP’s USB graphics adapters which allow you to connect multiple monitors via USB, we had to try it out. HP says a single computer can run as many as six of them and we wanted to see just how well.

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Hot on the heels of their Zi8 HD camcorder, the company has also announced a new media-adapter, the Kodak Theatre HD Player. It’s designed to plug directly into your HDTV with your home network, via WiFi or ethernet.

The Theatre HD Player does what you might expect, it can display images, video, music and web content. It includes a “point and play” remote, a motion-sensitive controller that acts like a mouse but you won’t need a flat surface.

We first showed you the Beanzawave USB microwave last month. Well here’s the first hands on video of the Beanzawave in action. Sure,when it comes to power and size it’s lacking, but it makes up for those cons with portability and convenience.

It’s powered by onboard batteries that can be charged via USB or an AC adapter. Of course, it’s designed to work with Heinz’s very own single-serving cans of Chef Boyardee foods. We still don’t have any details on pricing or availability.

Apple may have dumped ExpressCard from their new MacBook Pro models, but the PCMCIA are going ahead with the official release of ExpressCard Standard 2.0. With 2.0, transfer speeds are reportedly boosted by up to 10-times compared to ExpressCard 1.2 and there’s also support for SuperSpeed USB 3.0.

The up to 5Gbps bandwidth will make ExpressCard 2.0 even more useful for adding eSATA ports and high-speed storage like the latest breed of SSDs. PCMCIA also sees it being useful for streaming video and audio adapters. ExpressCard 2.0 is also backward-compatible with previous cards, so existing accessories will all work in the new sockets.

Hong Kong gadgeteer Brando can sometimes score a rare hit. We offer this SATA HDD Multi-Media Player Adapter as proof. This small adapter lets you plug in any SATA hard disk, SDHC card, or external USB drive, and play back its media with no computer anywhere. How sweet is that?

You have to wonder about the interface presented to you when you plug it into your TV via HDMI, component, or composite inputs. But even if it’s horrible, you’ll be able to view all kinds of audio and video formats on your TV, including MPEG-4, DivX, and AVI, without a PC anywhere nearby. That’s pretty convenient.