Lovers of old things and old looking things rejoice. The Steampunk movement is alive and well. In particular, Steampunk-ified gadgets are quite the site. Taking something that is technologically advanced and then blending styling cues from the 1800′s is quite the combination. Such a sight can easily be seen with the Steampunk Flash drive above. It’s not the first nor will it be the last. But in there here and now, it’s certainly cool enough to stare...

Dog tags as a means of self identification for your four legged friend are sooooo 1890. Come on guys, let’s get with the program here. Shall we? The Pet ID Tag is the dog tag of the year 2010 and beyond. Essentially it’s just a rugged flash drive that can be affixed to your pooch’s collar giving whoever finds them in the unfortunate misplacing, a quick, clear, and easy way to get your lost mutt back to your happy, humble abode. It’s a great...

Transferring large files onto flash drives these days, with multi-GB sized files, can be painfully slow at best, agonizingly tragic at worst. This is all over USB mind you. Extremely portable solutions other than USB are pretty much non-existent. Granted, once USB 3.0 starts going mainstream, USB 3.0 flash drives will of course flood the market and make us consumers happy campers. But what do we do until then? Use the Active Media Products USB/eSATA flash drive...

If you ever found yourself on the wrong side of the law, just how far would you go in evading the 5-0? Would you run on foot, by scooter, car, or plane? Would you pull knife, gun, rocket launcher, plasma shifting uber weapon? All of these and more are thoughts that go through a persons head in the few seconds in which they transform from innocent, frightened civilian to hardened criminal. I’m sure that running on a scooter and shooting plasma beams at the police is...

After a brief 15-month hiatus, it looks like personal flash drives will once again be allowed inside the Department of Justice. Spurred by a rash of virus outbreaks and compromised computers, the DoD enacted the ban back in late 2008 to get a grip on the damaging and stubborn malware war path. Don’t go all hogwild just yet though, bringing in a bin of flash drives and relying on them for home and work use. The new decree strictly mentions “mission...