Mobile Entertainment

There is a seemingly never ending war between the size of data, storage capacity and the cost of storage. As compression gets better and file sizes get smaller, the display resolution capabilities increase, the file size jumps and the cutting edge, very expensive device that held your entire movie collection can now only contain your top 5 feature films and maybe one season of your favourite series.

External Drives are a great stop gap, but the inconvenience of them feels like a compromise rather than a solution. Which is why Wi Fi portable drives are so damn cool. Two options on the market are the Kingston Wi-Drive and the Seagate GoFlex Satellite. Both offer streaming to multiple devices, excellent battery life and easy to use functionality.

They bode well for the future when your supplementary storage will be able to nestle in your luggage and comfortably beam terrabytes of data to your entertainment device.

On the other hand, hopefully the future holds wireless data connectivity so fast and cheap that taking your data with you becomes a thing of the past and you simply stream it from an online source or connect to a storage device at home. In the interim, you could just get an iPad 2 and a year's free bandwidth, though that's probably the pusher equivalent of offering the first hit for free.