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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 whip out his GBA Super Mario Bros. cartridge flash drive? I’d be geeked, that’s for sure.
The drives come in many different game titles and range from 4GB – 8GB for $39.99 and $49.99 respectively. If you’re sold, take that attitude and the appropriate amount of cash over to 8BitMemory’s Etsy Page where they’ll be more than glad to fill your bag with their latest creations. How many are you getting?
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Geeky-Gadgets
- November 17, 2009 2:35 pm
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, OCZ has taken it upon themselves to formerly announce the Colossus 3.5″ HDD series.
This series will be OCZ’s main push in the SSD market and bring drives of various sizes — ranging from 120GB all the way up to 1TB — and featuring speeds hovering right around 260MB/s (peak) and 220MB/s (constant). Easing the transition to the solid state format, OCZ assures that these new Colossus drives will fit in traditional hard drive bays without a mounting kit. If the speeds aren’t exactly wowing you, remember that not everyone is as concerned with speed and capacity as geeks are. Therefore, the drives mentioned above, especially the lower capacity options, are a perfect fit. Those looking to pick up their own version can expect to drop $609 for the 120GB version and can pretty much write off feeding the kids for the rest of the year if you’re eying the 1TB monster. Said monster is a hefty $3,572. Ouch. Still interested?
Electronista
- September 2, 2009 11:38 am
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 unemployment line. Such accidents and problems shouldn’t worry you if you happened to pick up the Saint USB Fash Drive/Security Key.
This little nifty gadget will allow you to make as many partitions on your computer as you want in which you can hide your files. The partitions, folders, and files that your create and hide with the Saint will be inaccessible to those without the Saint. In the event that your computer does get stolen, even if the thieves manage to guess your password, without the Saint USB Drive/Key in their possession, there’s no chance that they are going to break in. It’s just like a car — without a key, you’re not going anywhere. Such peace of mind and high tech security often comes at large coporate prices, however, the Saint USB Drive/Key is actually affordable for the normal consumer. Just how affordable? Try a mere $12.69! So how many do you want?
A few features of the Saint:
- Physically hide file directories from unauthorized users.
- Support for multiple users each with exclusive partitions that are hidden from other users.
- Without the Saint, your files are hidden from review and unrecoverable.
- Small, lightweight, and affordable.
Thanks Venus: Gadgetsight
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 gotta have it all. Who are you?
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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 your favorite, you can also choose between Apollo, Creed, and Clubba Lang. Exciting indeed. Movie memorabilia doesn’t come cheap as these little wonders will set you back $29.99 each. Ouch. Step in for a gander at bigger, more visually appealing pictures of the three desperados.
Perhaps two of the worst things to experience in life are a massive case of data loss and hunger. While one will physically drain you to the point of eventual death, the other will simply make you wish that you were dead. Thankfully there is a higher power looking out for us in the form of a cute little droid. The R2-D2 Pez dispenser and USB flash drive combo will solve as mentoined previously, two of life’s most daunting testing. No longer do you have to suffer the loss of years of stored data nor go hungry. With everything in one package, you are sure to at least be well fed and a digital powerhouse. Mind you you will need to carry some backup pez candies as their is only so much that can be crammed in a tiny object such as a flash drive/pez dispenser – 3 pez candies and 2GB worth of data. Still, the dramatic claim of surviving hunger and data loss still holds. $25 too much?
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Maybe my mind is a tad in the gutter this fine Monday afternoon…so what. I call it as I see it. Childish humor aside, the Elephant USB drive does as most USB drives do, storing data, except with a small twist that not all drives offer – water protection. Housed inside a removable silicon jacket, the house of colors (available in black, blue, pink and brown) Elephant Flash Drive will give the youngsters a generous 4GB of storage. What do those youngin’s have that could fill that? Who knows. Whatever the case, if you want to be the coolest parent in the world (for the next 12 hours at least), you’ll spend the necessary $29.95.
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While traditional spinning hard drives are becoming more and more endangered as SSD’s drop in price while rising equally in reliability and storage space, even the standard 2.5″ SSD has a new competitor. Except this time, the competitor is one of its own. Shown off at Computex, the nano SSD drive looks to usher in a whole new range of possibilities for SSD’s and the devices that they are incorporated in. One look at the picture above shows you just how great a feat science has once again accomplished. The nano flash drives are no bigger than the face of a watch yet hold 128GB of data! While the write/read speeds of 160MB/s and 150MB/s respectively aren’t going to break any records, however, considering how tiny this little nano monster is, those numbers are nothing to scoff at by any means. Hopefully we’ll see these things popping up in devices before you know it! Another picture inside gives you a good grasp of the nano SSD’s real size compared to 2.5″ and 3.5″ drives.
While you may be looking at the picture above completely captivated and entranced, wondering when and where you can pick up your very own Memory Pill USB Flash Drive, may be experiencing a case of “blinded by the light” syndrome. That is, they are getting distracted by the pretty pictures. However, coming to find out that this super neat flash drive only has a laughable and seemingly worthless 64MB of actual storage capacity should snap anyone back to reality pretty damn quick. While $18 usually is a pretty good amount for an average sized USB drive, that same amount for 2002 storage sizes make this drive all but obsolete and sure not to sell from the get go. Why would someone make a flash drive with such a limited storage capacity? Usually I would say lowering the storage capacity would help lower the dollar amount. Although this time that ideology appears flawed. What’s your guess?
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