Card Readers

Computers have shrunk from train-size to laptop-size, while storage and blank media have exploded from bits to bytes to gigabytes. It's only been a generation since the first real electronics hit homes and businesses, but it's been a generation of great ideas--like the Overstock.com computer store, where you save up to 70 percent off retail every day. What a concept!

Other great ideas among consumer electronics are memory cards and card readers. Digital memory cards are amazing; they come in a variety of sizes (all of which fit in your pocket) and capacities to meet every desktop computer or laptop computer need. Unfortunately, consumer electronics engineers dreamed up many different types--compact flash cards, memory sticks, multimedia cards, SD memory cards and so on--which are not interchangeable. Fortunately, those same engineering geniuses then created the memory card reader. It has a slot to fit several digital memory cards; some have slots for every type of memory card. It reminds you of Overstock.com, doesn't it--the place with online shopping tidbits for every type of business and consumer electronics. Yes, the brilliance just keeps on shining.

Memory card readers are plug-n-play devices that attach via USB cable to your computer, giving you access to all the data on any memory card you own. With all of the cards you're going to buy using money you keep saving at Overstock.com, this could add up to a lot of digital memory cards. Memory card readers are also being designed into newer models of many consumer electronics items. Computers and printers were the first. Arriving “ready to read”, these computers and peripherals can upload to or download from just about any digital memory card. Life is good in the electronics age.