Here we are in 2013. It's an exciting time of year, a welcome opportunity to reflect and give ourselves a fresh start. I personally resolved not to make resolutions, but perhaps some of you will now be trying your best to get organized, lose some weight or save some money. These new devices may help you think about achieving your goals.

Over the holidays, you may have found yourself on vacation in some beautiful locale; and whether it was the gorgeous beach, your awesome tricks on the half-pipe or simply the great food you ate, you no doubt have tons of image and video files to share, back up and upload. The King Jim Packetta wireless LAN flash drive is a new advancement in portable storage that should help you manage your media. It comes with either 8GB (white) or 16GB (black) of storage space, and while it does need to be connected to a power source via USB to perform transfers, the convenience comes in when any device equipped with the free accompanying app is able to access files from it wirelessly. Gone are the days of passing around the thumb drive to either download or upload data. The Packetta was released late last year and can be picked up for ¥9,870 for the 8GB version or ¥14,700 for the 16GB.

www.kingjim.co.jp/sp/packetta