As our digital lives grow beyond the confines of our internal hard drives, more and more we turn to external solutions to carry the weight. A simple external hard drive is a convenient choice, but offers the risk of data loss if it incurs damage. To backup data entirely, twice the space would need to be purchased; RAID solves this problem elegantly by distributing the data across multiple disks, but requires dedicated hardware to accomplish the rapid and complicated process of distributing data and parity bits across multiple disks. Storing the disks in a clean, working, and elegant system is another common problem. As a university student, I eschewed this process and settled for a pile of hard drives on top of a Tupperware bin. While functional, enterprise users will be attracted to a product such as the TowerRaid, which is decidedly less “ghetto fabulous” than my solution.

For a long time now, Aliph’s Jawbone has been the front runner in background noise cancellation. Many have tried to beat the Jawbone only to fall short. Today we will be looking at Motorola’s newest headset, the Endeavor HX1, which takes a unique approach to background noise cancellation. While the Endeavor uses all the standard tricks, it is the first time I have seen bone conduction technology in a Bluetooth headset. Unlike the Jawbone, which places a sensor on your skin, the Endeavor’s bone conduction technology places a sensor right in the ear.