by , 10:00 AM EST, February 23rd, 2006

SmartDisk announced its new PhotoBank image storage device on Thursday. The PhotoBank is a handheld device can store up to 40GB of images from digital cameras. It offloads digital photos from flash memory cards and stores them until you are ready to download them to your computer via USB. The PhotoBank will be available in March from the SmartDisk Web site and retail stores. It is priced at US$179.99.

The SmartDisk PhotoBank

The SmartDisk Web site has not been updated with information about the new PhotoBank yet.