Share your files using Leyio

The Leyio is a strange object.

It has 16GB of memory that you can use to store photos and other documents.

It’s a USB host device which means that you can plug in a camera or a USB memory key, using the socket on the side, and copy documents and files to or from the device. It has a fingerprint reader for security, so you have to record your fingerprint and swipe it to access the files.

It also has a separate 2GB USB memory key built in so that you can share documents from the Leyio more easily.

So what is it, then? Well, we’re still not sure.

Essentially, you can use it to carry around all sorts of personal information in the knowledge that it can’t be accessed by anyone else unless they have access to your fingers.

You can also use it as a backup for your digital camera, although in these days of multi-megapixel cameras and large memory cards, 16GB isn’t going to last very long.
One important feature, though, is that you can use it to easily share those files. If you want to give a file or a photo to someone, they can plug in a USB key and you can easily copy the files across to that.

Or if you’re near a friend’s computer, copy the files to the Leyio’s 2GB storage, pull that out and plug it into the PC. When you plug it back into the Leyio it’ll wipe itself, but not before first copying anything new that your friend has put on it.

Finally, and most interestingly, you can connect to another Leyio wirelessly. When you meet someone else with a Leyio, the two devices will link up, if you want them to, and you can copy files from one to the other with – literally – a flick of the wrist: select a file on your device, flick your wrist and it’ll copy to the other one.

The interface is clear, colourful and fairly easy to use, and as a 16GB storage device it’s interesting and looks good. Our main concern is that we won’t run into anyone else with a Leyio to whom we want to transfer our files, which makes it less worth the £160 asking price.