Backup

Anker's latest offering is the first-ever smart hybrid backup system for your entire house, powering it for days. The company claims its sophisticated equipment makes it simple for homeowners to finally stop worrying about blackouts and outages.

If you lose your smartphone, you definitely don't want to lose all the photos and other files stored on it. That's why it's so important to perform backups, and the PhotoCube PD+ offers a particularly simple means of doing so.

External charging solutions are finding their way into everything from dedicated credit card-like devices to the countertop at your local Starbucks. Now a writing pen with a backup battery packed inside can be added to the list.

There are plenty of options for storing your photos and videos with an online storage provider, such as Google or Dropbox. A private, home-based cloud can provide more control, security and home-integration options, though. EzeeCube is a new home cloud hub that aims to do just that.

Backing up your data can save important documents, digital purchases and years of memories. But even if you never have to restore a single file, backups can still give you peace of mind. Join Gizmag, as we review Backblaze, a simple and affordable service that backs up your entire PC.

Connected Data has launched the Transporter Sync, a device that turns ordinary external hard-drives into private cloud storage. Users can access their documents, photos, videos and music from computers on their home network, online or via Android, iPhone and iPad apps.

With the Voltmaker, providing your smartphone with enough juice to make a quick phone call is just a flick of the wrist away.

Powerocks releases what might be the world's thinnest battery back-up.

The Transporter is a device that allows people to back up their files off-site, on the hard drives of people whom they know and trust.

With Mountain Lion set for a July release, Gizmag offers some tips on backing up, cleaning up and optimizing your Mac to make the upgrade process go as smoothly as can be.

A new optical disc company based in Salt Lake City called Millenniata is set to deliver a new type of optical disc that can be read on standard DVD drives but will safely store data for up to 1,000 years.

Apple's iCould service will provide 5GB of free cloud-based storage and automatically sync media, documents, calendars and more between users' various mobile iOS devices and a Mac or PC wirelessly.