Just about every geek out there spent his formative years building things with simple nubby plastic building bricks. They may later graduate to Erector sets, but then they branch out - carpentry, metal working, advanced nanorobotics using photolithography or positional diamondoid molecular manufacturing… but they almost always start with these venerable old bricks.
Even so-called grown-ups, though, never give up on their love of these little blocks. Something about the bright primary colors, or the satisfying snap they give when piecing them together. You can build almost anything with a complete set of bricks, but now we've extended their capabilities beyond just building cool yet blocky robots, cars, planes and houses.
Now, with these USB Memory Brick Thumbdrives, we've taken a regular brick and inserted a 4 Gigabyte piece of USB flash memory. Now you can store millions of pages of text, thousands of images, hundreds of songs, or 10 hours of movies. Then, when you're done with your file storage, build it into your robot, and watch as he stomps Tokyo! Rrraaarrrr!!! Ok, maybe not so much with the Tokyo stompage, but still! How cool!
No choice but to buy this Lego USB proprietary item to work with my LED HDTV. For it to work flawlessly, it needs actual (as opposed to advertised speed) broadband speed of at least 3 Mbps. Otherwise, it will cause a lot of freezes for HD viewing. There should be some sort of buffer or intelligence in the linkstick to soften the wireless transmission impact. As suggested in other web sites, I am buying a 6 ft male-to-female USB extension table to see if it improves the reception.
I was skeptical in purchasing this device because of a few reviews I read but I decided to try it for myself and I am so glad I did. This device connected to my network instantly and has not disconnected since (5 days so far) STREAMS HD/ HDX programs as FAST as any other device I won. GREAT PRODUCT!!
I would have rated the features five stars, but had to give it a 'little' knock for being a bit stubborn to connect to my new Cisco Linksys wireless router (high end e3000). I thought it would be a 'plug and play' but it took about a half hour of fiddling...to be completeley forthright, part of the issue was probably the Linksys router. When first hooked up, I was overjoyed to see that it found the router immediately, showing the name that I'd assigned when setting up the router. But it said it couldn't connect. Entered the password I'd created, still nothing. Then tried the auto connect push a button on the Blu-ray player setup screen and press the button on the rounter within two minutes. That connected, but said not completely. Went back to the rounter thru the computer and got the NEW password that was generated (not sure why it did that). Typed it in on the players network setup screen, and BINGO!, it was connected, and I was hooked to Netflix within a couple of minutes. Like I said, baybe it was the router. Works great now!
