HSTi Puts your Wireless Network Media on a Flash Drive

Another evolution in peripheral development lands today with the WirelessMediaStick from HSTi. This is truly a novel device, which acts as a flash drive infinityGB storage. That's right, Infinity. This drive is detected as a normal mass storage thumb drive by whatever computer it is plugged into. The thumb drive size device, which only reports as a hard drive, is actually connecting to your wireless network and displaying folders and files that you have configured it to share. A little confusing, this allows the myriad devices which have expansion by USB drive only to get to your shared music, video or photos. This is a an easy network upgrade without having to have built in wireless network abilities.

This would work great for media players like the WDTV or the ViewSonic VMP70. These sub $100 players are fantastic slim additions to any system. Much easier than setting up a full HTPC with many of the same media playing abilities. The configuration of the shared folders is done through a web based utility. Once the folders are mapped, any new media added to those folders is automatically available to the player. No word on price or availability yet but more details should show up mid-week.