Turning anything and everything into a USB flash drive is still all the rage. While I haven’t personally seen as many novelty flash drives flood my inbox, I do still see quite a lot out there by searching on my own. With that said, I’m a geek. You’re a geek. Many of us are geeks. What better way to show that than toting around your own custom flash drives? What would you do if you saw some special chap sit down next to your at the coffee shop and...
With the advent of flash technology came the realization that the old moving storage mediums that current flood the market are on the way out. Flash offers many advantages over it’s older, more mobile siblings with the most notable being lower energy consumption and eventual faster speeds. Flash storage based drives, or SSD’s as they’re now commonly called are increasing in market presence and dropping in price. Looking to join this wave of the future,...
If you’ve ever had the misfortune of losing your precious laptop only to realize all of the files that are now subject to foreign eyes, you no doubt know that rock in your gut feeling. Even worse, that rock-in-gut feeling will be the least of your worries if you work for some important company and you lost company secrets a long with your laptop. Now not only does your gut have a rock stowing away inside, but you’ll also be getting pretty familiar with the...
When 32GB of pictures just isn’t enough, Toshiba is there to save you. The SDXC cards will feature speeds of 35Mbps and 60 Mbps for write/read respectively. The first samples of said card are due to hit manufacturers’ secret labs this November with the general public getting graced sometime in spring of 2010. While I would much rather have several smaller cards (I cringe at the thought of losing 64 GB worth of data, especially pictures), some people just...
It seems the fad of cramming a USB drive into any and every object is not going away anytime soon folks. That realization is all to apparent after seeing the latest thing to get a piece of metal rammed inside: The Rocky Balboa Crunching USB Drive. This is not a joke. If you are soooo in love with the Rocky movies and want to express that love to the rest of the world through the art of USB displaying, by all means, buy this now. If Rocky himself wasn’t...
