Memory Cards at Universal Gadgets

Computers have massively changed our lives over the past half century. These amazing machines have evolved from amazingly complicated and rare devices to an item that is so common that most people don’t realise how many surround them – an average home has around four PC’s, two games consoles and five mobile phones. Plus most household entertainment devices (iPods, digital photo frames, DVD players and Stereos) will feature a dedicated computer, so that’s another 3 right there and your car will have at least 3 computers (stereo, comfort control and engine management) , 4 if you use a standalone GPS unit. The revolution that gave the computer its ability to dominate our lives was not the internet, was not 3d graphics and certainly not even the keyboard. That innovation was memory. The ability to store information and retain data turned the computer from a labour saving device into a library. Just like a library the ability to save data to external memory formats and take it to another computer to be combined with other data, or copied to that computer enabled the data revolution more than any other innovation.

Today we use this storage ability far more than any other computing, saving video game data to memory cards, photos saved out from your camera and music is swapped from device to device at will and that’s before you even get to deal with the files you need for work! Such prevalent data culture requires the best formats for data transfer and UniversalGadgets.co.uk have every kind of memory card, card reader and USB Flash Drive that you could possibly need to fuel your need to save, copy and share your data.

Micro SD cards were designed by Sandisk to be the ultimate card format for small electronic devices. The SD format has gone through several sizes of form factor with the Micro being the smallest. The micro is also the most versatile as it can be used with the larger formats through adaptors. Despite its tiny size (11mm x15mm x 1mm) these cards can hold up to a whopping 32Gb of data, that’s over 3 DVD’s worth in a card the size of your fingernail!

Sony devices often use the electronics giant’s own card formats. These formats are used in mobile phones, video games and in their cameras and laptops. The M2 is fingernail sized and available with an adaptor to take it to the Memory Stick Pro Duo card size, the Pro Duo being the common card used in larger devices and in the Sony PSP handheld games console. Sony maintain support for their older devices with adaptors from Stick Pro Duo card up to the original Sony Memory Stick format.

Universal Gadgets are the experts in portable memory. As well as Memory Cards we supply USB flash drives and card readers. We also have a range of great gifts, gadgets and screen protectors for mobile phones and other devices.