Belkin Home Base Wants to Be Your Peripherals Wireless Hang Out

September 16, 2009 · Posted in Gadgets

Ah Belkin, you want to be the Cheers for home peripherals, don’t ya? The new Home Base connects up to four USB devices —printers, external hard drives, etc. — and makes them wirelessly accessible from any computer.

Just plug an Ethernet cord into the Home Base and when you plug any USB device, including gaming consoles, into those nicely aligned ports on the back it will automatically become wireless. You can access an external hard drive over the air and even make a non-wireless printer wireless. It will also work the opposite way: you can back up files from your computer wirelessly to a hard drive that is plugged into the Home Base.

You’ve been looking for it, we’ve been looking for it — heck, displaced Martians have been looking for it. We’re talking about that mythical, magical box that adds all sorts of connectivity to any networked PC…
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