- September 14, 2010 6:46 pm
As consumers tote around ever growing digital libraries, finding places to stuff said libraries is starting to wear thin. Ok, maybe it’s not that big of a crisis. But tech junkies and business professionals may have encountered at one time or another, a flash drive that had run out of room or was god-awfully slow. Thus far, there’s been a few USB 3 options that have come onto the market. Well folks, add another contender to your lists. Kingston has officially arrived.
The Data Traveler Ultimate 3.0 as the name suggests, adds in USB 3 support and promises some pretty substantial speed improvements over USB 2.0-only products. According to Kingston, their handy work present in the DTP 3.0 is good for 80MBps read and 60MBps writes. Blistering? Meh, for a flash drive it’s pretty awesome. Compared to higher end hard disk drives and SSD’s, however, shows that flash drives in particular have quite a ways to go.
You can pick up the Data Traveler Ultimate 3.0 in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB sizes for $89/$138/$270 respectively. Anyone going to bite?
If you happen to have an old Mac keyboard or two sitting around the house, why not get crafty and USB-ify it? Stuffing USB flash drive internals into mundane objects is the latest rage. But you know what, I love it. Many years from now, geeks will compare their flash drive collection as a sort of “right of passage”. No joke, I want this.
If DIY isn’t your cup of tea, thesleekgeek (Etsy) will happily do the grunt work for you, $60 donation provided of course. So what do you say: DIY or pre-built?
We’ve highlighted plenty of game cartridge/console mods in the past. I’m sure we’ve even done some similar to the Game Boy cartridge flash drive you see above. Though, if I can be brutally honest, I’ve got the memory of a gold fish. No joke. So if it’s managed to slip my memory, forgive me.
Either way, forgotten or not, the Game Boy Cartridge Flash Drive is right up there with the NES controller flash drive in terms of coolness. Although, the Teddy Bear Flash Drive is another runner up if we move past gaming peripherals altogether.
Meh, I’ll leave the deciding up to you. All you need now is the $30 price tag for the 4GB flash drive above and the link — Game Boy Cartridge Flash Drive | Etsy
I’m honestly at a loss for words here. Food will probably taste better, odors smell more distinct, and colors more vibrant now that I have seen this Teddy Drive. Of course, the poor bear won’t ever taste, smell, or see anything again. But that’s besides the point.
I really don’t see how this can be topped. I have a sort of sick, twisted humor that finds headless bears crammed into computers funny. Forgive me if that offends you. Though I really don’t care. That’s just good stuff right there. Anyone else have a good rofl at this bear’s expense?
- February 24, 2010 2:30 pm
“Lightsaber flash drives” you say with abated breath and a racing heart. Yes, your very own futuristic death sword retired and sent back into the working world as a lowly flash drive. The storage size is a bit puny as far as modern flash drives go — only 1GB — but that shouldn’t stop the most obsessed Star Wars fans. The icing on the cake comes in the form of exterior illumination when plugged in.
For only $20 at ThinkGeek, why not?
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- December 15, 2009 6:36 am
Have you heard the old saying “You’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached?” I can be pretty forgetful. In fact, I’d venture on to say that I have the memory resembling that of a goldfish — simple, quick, and short. Hell, notes I write to remember things either get forgotten themselves or lost in the shuffle of the daily grind we call life. Yet somehow I still manage.
You see, my head is still attached so I couldn’t ever possibly get too lost. Though my little surgeon friend here won’t fare as well should his cranium ever come up missing. Not only will he lose his face and the most dashingly good feature of his upper region, but the protective powers of his plasticized skull will leave the really important bits — the USB plug itself — exposed to the elements good and bad.
So next time you’re feeling like your memory isn’t quite up to snuff and getting down on yourself, just remember that it could always be worse. You my friend don’t have to keep track of where you last sat down your head…
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