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If This Iron Man Flash Drive Can’t Protect Your Files, What Will?

If Tony Stark’s fancy suit is good enough for taking down baddies like the Mandarin, surely at least part of his getup must be an effective way to secure your digital paraphernalia? Available in 8GB and 16GB capacities, these Iron Man severed hand flash drives include posable fingers, a glowing repulser in the palm, and they come in left and right hand versions forcing you to get both to complete the set.


Nothing In Your Pocket Will Damage This Spinning Flash Drive

Flash drives are so cheap and ubiquitous that you probably have them stashed everywhere, even on your keychain. And to ensure that all the jostling against your keys, coins, and whatever else is in your pockets doesn’t kill the drive, SanDisk has equipped its latest Cruzer with a spinning shield.


Add Up To 16GB Of Storage To Your iPhone, iPad With iFlash Drive

One of the Apple’s more polarising design choices with its mobile devices is the lack of a slot for an microSD card or similar avenue for expanded storage. Yes, you could just buy a non-Apple tablet or phone, but if you’re just too attached to the hardware from the big white citrus, you should check out the iFlash Drive.


US Presidents Immortalised In Flash Drive

It’s President’s Day in the US. Here are some facts for you: John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator. Ulysses S. Grant got a speeding ticket in a horse and carriage. And George Washington and Abraham Lincoln have been turned into adorable flash drives from Mimobot.


USB Energy Monitor Exposes Your Power-Hungry Flash Drive

Don’t be so smug the next time you walk away from a trade show with a mountain of free flash drives. They require electricity too, and with this simple USB power monitor, you can calculate just how much those supposedly ‘free’ giveaways are contributing to your monthly power bill.


Kingston’s HyperX Predator: The Easiest Way To Misplace 1TB Of Data

Last year at CES Victorinox surprised everyone with a 1TB flash drive that the company estimated would sell for almost $US3000. It sounded too good to be true, and given there’s been no sign of it since last January, it apparently was. So can Kingston fill the void left in our hearts with its new HyperX Predator 1TB USB 3 flash drive? Let’s hope so.


The USB Flash Drive More Beautiful Than Your Precious MacBook

Are you head over heels in love with your MacBook? Then why spoil its design with some jacked-up USB tumour? This sleek flash drive is the perfect complement to your beloved Apple hardware, even going so far as to match its silvery finish.


Wireless Card Reader Lets You Share Your Shots Without Cables

Wireless devices are usually far more convenient than their tethered alternative. But in this case losing the USB cable has made the REX-WIFISD1 SD/SDHX/SDXC and flash drive reader a bit on the bulky side. So what do you really gain for it being wireless? The ability to access it from any mobile device.


This Tiny Flash Drive Broadcasts Its Contents Over Wi-Fi

Besides greater capacities, faster transfer speeds and novel designs, there hasn’t been much recent innovation with USB flash drives. That is why the Paketta from King Jim is such a welcome break. With built-in Wi-Fi B, G, N hardware it can wirelessly broadcast its contents to PCs and mobile devices.


Hot Flash The Secret To SSDs That Will Outlast The Universe

Heat is never a desired quality in consumer electronics. Running your chips at high temperatures reduces their life and when it gets to extremes, kills performance thanks to throttling. Not so when it comes to flash memory, where a lot of heat, applied for milliseconds at a time, can allow a NAND cell to survive 100 million write cycles without breaking a sweat.


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