Thoughts on NEXT
Dear Universal Labs community,
It has been a while since our last update. A lot of you have messaged or emailed us about what’s going on with Ubbey. Some of you questioned whether we stopped development and gave up on the project. I want to clarify this at first.
The team of Universal Labs is a group of people who share a similar vision. We want to push the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology and re-decentralize the internet by defining true data ownership! We either totally succeed or fail, but never give up!
The reason we didn’t provide regular updates is we don’t want to ruin this moment, the moment as opening presents on Christmas Morning. Good things are worth waiting for! We have been working on new products for almost 8 months. You don’t know how many times we struggled, should we disclose a little, a little bit about the development of new products to you. We decide to keep it as a secret until last minute. We are sorry for keeping you waiting so long! Thanks for every community member’s patience and trust!
Now, let me introduce our new product(s), Ubbey N-E-X-T!
Ubbey NEXT is the first decentralized modular intelligent data storage solution; stackable and secure, smart and distributed. Ideal for everyday users and experts alike, it’s designed for anyone to keep their data safe and manage conveniently. Ubbey NEXT aims to change the way people interact with their data today, resulting in true data ownership and AI-powered p2p sharing with incentives.
The design of Ubbey NEXT is inspired by the design of blockchain. It is built with blocks. With different stackable blocks, Ubbey NEXT can have more features. Different blocks have different names.
Ubbey N — The base module comes with 1 TB capacity. With only a base module, you can use most of Ubbey App’s features and participate into the Ubbey blockchain mining by contributing your unused storage.
Ubbey E — You can expand your base module’s storage by Ubbey E. One piece of Ubbey E contains up to 4TB capacity (1TB, 2TB, 3TB or 4TB). You can stack maximum 3 Ubbey Es on a base module. Each Ubbey E can be used as a mobile hard drive as well.
Ubbey T — Wifi module. Connect to your router wirelessly.
Ubbey X — X means infinite possibilities. For example, IP camera module let you to remotely monitor your home or office.
All modules are connected magnetically. It is super easy to stack different modules on a base module to create a personalized Ubbey NEXT. The unused storage can either be used for mining or trading with other users. This is also a p2p storage sharing network.
Tech Specs
- CPU：RTD1296 arm-v8 Cortex-A53 quad-core 1.4Ghz (Ubbey N)
- RAM：2GB DDR4 (Ubbey N)
- ROM：8GB (Ubbey N)
- Storage：1TB HDD (Ubbey N comes with 1TB, can get more space by adding Ubbey E)
- Color：Black/White
- Volume：123*123*50 mm（one block）
- Weight：400g（one block）
- Type-C USB port: transmission speed up to100M/S
- Ubbey App 2.0：remote access, download and share digital files (supports SMB, IPFS, DLNA, Plex protocols), decentralized application store, AI-powered content recommendation and p2p downloading
- Blockchain: mining by proof-of-storage consensus
- Up to 100MB/s read/write speed
- Hard disk encryption and RAID backup
- 1TB = 600 thousands HD photos/500 thousands 2M documents/35 thousands songs
“I believe the current model of internet is wrong. There are so many centralized digital giants. They want to control all data, even users’ personal data. Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web on a NeXT computer made by Steve Jobs.We want to follow the path of the two great pioneers and use our Ubbey NEXT to re-decentralize the internet.”
We think we still owe you some homework. In the coming weeks, we will provide detailed financial report and upcoming/completed milestones.
Cheers!
Keda Che
April, 2019
