$US10,000 USB Drive Makes Life More Difficult, Destitute

@os_2: I am a rich idiot?

I'd go for more of a Pandora's box idea. Load up the drive with every malware, virus, adware, rogueware, and any other malicious software you can find.

fate.evermore

Did anyone notice that this is just a black version of the tetris cube?

[www.gadgetshop.com]

IMHO I would rather buy a tetris cube, cut the small 1x2 piece in half and stuff my own flash drive in it. Just as "effective" and a heck of alot cheaper.

reluttr

@Axelph: Unfortunately... those are only redeemable on webkinz.com and expire after three months. You're welcome to try them here if you want, though!

@32ndnote: What about + Awesome points? I get a lot of those

@mocax: Someone call Brando!

@Shamoononon, Vampire Grater: no, the real puzzle is that we should never solve this at all..

@deanbmmv: You've clearly never spent much time on 4chan... People have so many internets over there that they'll throw out a "+1" or even the fabled "+2" just because they can.

(I saw a "+∞" on here once. It freaked me out so much I had to take a nap. In order to distribute that many internets, the commenter would have to be the internet.)

@Soyerzzz: No, MY cool! Mine!

closhedbb

Yugi oh?

@Skyman747:

What!? That's way too high.

Morgan Culp

have something super important on it, start a cult about it and then hand out pieces of this key to every Duke in your cult to be passed down through the generations

@dugpol: I was thinking about them too... but more along the: "I'd only pay that if it opened the gates to hell" or something.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@pretty pretty pony: Checking to make sure their Segway is still tied to the bike rack?

Skyman747

@[en.wikipedia.org])

orthorim

@pretty pretty pony: Jealousy is a bitch!

orthorim

@elitesoulman: Genius!

I'll put my bank account data on it, and my will shall be that the one who is able to open this within 10 minutes in front of the notary shall inherit all. The rest get nothing.

I think this will have quite a market... at least considering it's a $10,000 USB stick.

orthorim

Putting those types of puzzles together is much harder than taking them apart, imo. What's needed is something hard to take apart, but easy to put back together... which in itself is a bit of a puzzle.

@Shamoononon, Vampire Grater: There's lots of rich geeks around, thats why.

orthorim

@Skyman747: I have a feeling that having over 9000 internets is significant for some reason.

@deanbmmv: I have well over 9000 internets. It all depends on where you post. The places closer to the core of the internet (4chan) and the directly linked websites will distribute much more internets than a site that carries out decent conversations (like gizmodo).

Skyman747

Even if you solve the puzzle there is no way you'll survive the Cenobites!

dugpol

@mikeness: Coke and weed? wow your cool...

The most pretentious USB drive ever. I imagine somebody with a Che shirt plugging this in to their Mac Book whilst sipping on Starbucks.

@deanbmmv: i have few maybe 3!! i think u plug them in the magical giz express card, and they might transfer into a star

medopal

The real irony is that anyone dumb enough to pay for this is too stupid to solve the puzzle.

theimmc

@mikeness: ummm which 16gb usb cost $100 nowdays?
[www.newegg.com])-_-SanDisk-_-20171375
I can get you 2 AND a bit of quality bammer

@Shamoononon, Vampire Grater: i know at least one who will do. why? just to say so. or maybe impress someone

medopal

I think they're about a year late to market, not many idiots left willing to drop $10k on a $30 flash drive and <$10 worth of Aluminum... yes, that's right, it's made out of Aluminum, you'd figure for $10k you'd at least get silver.

something_unique_and_descriptive

@Ron Dutt: How does this 'Internets' currency system work?
Once upon a time was there a man with many Internets, and if he saw something he liked he would give them an Internets? And if this person sees something they like, they could gift their Internets?
Cos currently I've earned about 9 Internets in various size chunks n given 1 away. What's the average amount of Internets to have?

To people with more money than brains - just send your money to me via PayPal. mmkaythnxbye.

Generally the way things work is that these puzzles are _really_ easy to take apart, but actually require some logical deduction (or dumb luck) to put back together. So, it won't do jack to protect your data, but at least you'll know when it's been compromised.

Purple Dave

i'm sure someone will come up with a $10 clone

mocax

@kieff3175: +1 Internets for you sir!

Maybe this thing needs to be a wireless USB device!

@mikeness: At least at this price you can almost pick up 2 Segways. Quite a few of the Target stores in my area have their rent-a-cops rollin' Segways, maybe Target will get 'em this usb as xmas gifts.

Marvelous. Now I can rest assured that half of my iTunes library is secure.

Ryan Moore

Would love to see the monkeys from TSA at the airport try to figure that one out.

The Brain

@worst. giz commenter. ever.: er- 10 grand, rather.

worst. giz commenter. ever.

awesome!

i both want to (a) solve this puzzle, and (b) spend 16 grand on it.

it's win/win!!

worst. giz commenter. ever.

I shall put my will inside of it. Then, by the time they finally open it the file extension will be obsolete.

@The Magnificen7: That would be a small bag of coke or some really crappy bammer.

BTW- It's 10k for the 'art' the usb is a bonus.

@The Magnificen7: I guess I could also score some coke or weed for less than 100 at Walmart, bad example.

@mikeness: You could get that for less than $10 I bet.

I'll wait 'til the price drops to $5k.

@os_2: The same folks who rushed out to buy a Segway.

It has I am rich and also an idiot written all over it.

os_2

That's a pretty sweet puzzle, but why put a memory stick inside? The article says "rewards the people who succeed by revealing whats inside" but for 10k there better be bag of coke or weed or something in there, not something I can get for 100 bucks at walmart.

It's the Alspark

kieff3175

I think the real puzzle is why anybody would pay for this. Solve that!