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I’ve seen some strange novelty flash drives before in my relatively short time span spent on this planet so far. But I think the title of “world’s weirdest” or “world’s most disturbing” flash drive has been one-upped by the Taxidermy Flash Drive Mouse w/ light up LED eyes. Yes, you read that right, an actual mouse carcass all hardened up and stuffed chock full of wonderful flash storage and light up LED eyes to boot.
I have to ask, at what point does the cool or funny aspect of a novelty flash drive cross into weird, gross, or downright disturbing? One thing’s for sure — If you have a knack for going all out on Halloween, this flash drive is definitely up your alley. As for me, I’m not really grossed out by stuffed animal bodies. Though, used in this fashion is admittingly, slightly odd.
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Are you a fan of Steampunk’d gadgetry? I’m kind of on the fence personally. While it is cool to see custom electronics and one-offs, a couple months back there was a huge explosions of steampunk material that frankly, burned me out.
A few months out of the public eye however will do wonders for your interest. Not to mention, if done well, Steampunk gadgets are a sight to behold. Take for instance this Steampunk’d USB flash drive/Hunley (old classic submarine) replica. The drive itself is your run of the mill 16GB flash drive, which I might add is a fair amount larger than many novelty/custom flash drives. Even better however is the obvious attention to detail the creator “WillRockWell” of Etsy put into this little digital wonder.
If you’re feeling all nostalgic (and have a healthy, fat wallet) why not make this flash drive part of your collection? It’s mighty shiny…don’t let the $800 price tag blind you.
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Now I’m a big supporter of convenience and ease of use, however, there comes a time when even the most simple minded have to sit back and really question just how much all of that convenience is worth. Enter the world of 256GB Kingston flash drives. The latest from the King is sure to make the less technically knowledgeable individual gape in pure and utter astonishment by the sheer size and amount this miniature device can hold. While the size is massive, drives of this magnitude usually suffer horrendously slow transfer times — something that isn’t very appealing when you’re talking about 10 Mbps transfer speeds on a device capable of housing 1/4 TB. Moving on to a brighter light, the Kingston 256GB flash drive will allow the 1 and 0 hoarder to stow away more than 40,000 songs just to give you an idea. Naturally, such size and sophistication comes at a price…and hefty a price it is: $900 according to several tech sites more familiar with the device. $900 is mighty steep for a flash drive regardless of features or size.
So what is a mere mortal to do? Obviously buy a small hard drive is the first step. Again, remember that transfer times are key, don’t let the shock of the big storage number cloud your judgement. There are much cheaper alternatives that while not as small, are just as useful and efficient. Then again, if you’ve never had that good of a relationship with say one of your kidneys, now may be the time to kill two birds with one stone….
Source: Technabob
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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Source: Geeky-Gadgets
While many “novelty” flash drives often come off looking stupid, this penguin flash drive will “different”, has a good cause to back it up. When you purchase a WWF Penguin Flash Drive, a part of the proceeds are donated to the World Wildlife Fund – a rather noble cause, considering how much animal ecosystem we humans are destroying with each passing day. Other than the good cause, the drive is pretty simple by flash drive standards. With a simple “cap” design, you remove the head to expose the USB innards which then get jammed into a USB port. It truly is quite the site when looking at someone using the Penguin flash drive as half a penguin body juts out from what computer you have it plugged in to. If you’re worried about capacity options (as novelty flash drives are often pretty sparse in this regard), you will be pleasantly surprised as the WWF Penguin Flash Drive comes in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB. Amazon is the reseller of choice for this little bird with prices starting at $12.95. Saving the planet can now be cool. A couple more WWF Penguin pics are inside.
Lately we have been seeing a slew of very unique and creative USB flash drives that take on various different forms in order to cater to the vast areas of the market. Sure, a standard rectangular with rounded edges flash drive will work, but that is so business boring. Why not spice things up a bit and make life more enjoyable? Thankfully you now have another way of doing so thanks to the Panda USB drive. Obviously the drive is modeled after a Panda bear. However the way that the drive separates is at least to me slightly amusing. The drive pulls apart in two equal halves giving you robo panda. Give your little Johnny or Susie the Panda USB drive and watch them gleefully rip a panda to pieces. As far as “cutsie” customized flash drives go, these actually have some decent storage capacities as they come in 2GB, 8GB, and 16GB sizes with price tags starting at a low $12.95 and climbing up to a rather reasonable for 16GB $42.95. While capacity is one thing, speed is a whole different issue. I’m pretty sure these won’t be your fastest flash drives as more “expressive” flash drives aren’t exactly light on their feet. But, that isn’t what the Panda USB drive’s owner is looking for anyway. Right? Panda lovers can get their groove on courtesy of Amazon.
Source: Geeky-Gadgets, Craziest Gadgets, Slippery Brick
