The iTwin lets you transfer files over the internet with ease, if you don’t already know how to do so
We’re all home networking gurus here… or, at the very least, know how to email files to ourselves or can dig up an old USB disk drive. But some of our elderly, gummy, toothless relatives are more Ludditical… and let’s face it, some of our parents, brothers, sisters and roommates as well. How to make transferring files between their computers easy as well?
The iTwin is a device that will benefit few except those who don’t know how to set up a home network or the frequent family PC troubleshooter, but it’s still pretty neat. Essentially a double-thumbed dongle, the iTwin — as its name suggests — splits apart in the middle. You plug one half into one computer, the other into a second computer, and without any networking or internet skills at all, you can easily transfer files between the two machines, no matter how far apart they are.
It’s a device for the utter novice, and probably not useful to anyone else. For anyone who knows computers, it seems strangely feature deficient: wouldn’t a built-in remote terminal application make this a lot more useful to the Luddite and the pro alike? Sure it would.
Still, the iTwin might be a good troubleshooting device… or, at least, an easy way to transfer movies over to your parent’s machine. No price or availability information just yet, but in the meantime, at least be assured that the iTwin looks pretty, and very Mac like.
– By John Brownlee | geek
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