The flash drives are taking over. They live in your desk drawers, your laptop bag, between your couch cushions and in your pockets. They’re taking over. It’s out of control. They need a home. Behold, Memory City.
In reporting on the Fall of Tripoli, Reuters tells the inside story of Abdel Majid Mlegta, a caterer who supplied the victuals for Gaddafi’s regime. Putting key inside information on a series of memory sticks, this man was instrumental in bringing Gaddafi down.
I was just browsing Pantone’s site — y’know, eyeing up their markers — when I noticed they sell customisable Pantone USB sticks. Not a bad little present for a design-fiend, and they start at just $US13 for 1GB. [Pantone]
The Photofast i-FlashDrive will transfer your music, photo and movie files between iOS devices, even without a computer. It might look like a plain, two-sided USB and 30-pin dock connector at first glance, but it’s more than that.
These star-cross’d doodads have hooked up before, but now it’s official. USB sticks and LEGO minifigs have finally tied the knot, never to be separated again, til death do them part.
This USB Flash Drive, made from an old NES system and a Tetris game cartridge, is utterly pointless. Then again, so is this thing. And this thing too. I’ll let it pass.
USB drives have become cheap to the point of disposability. I think there are four lying underneath my bed like dust bunnies. So a drive has to be particularly eye-catching to make anyone care – like these 3D printed “keys”.
LaCie’s got their hands on what they say is the smallest current USB 3.0 flash drive – about the size of a pack of gum. (Clearly not Orbit gum!) Sizes up to 120GB and speeds up to 260MB/s.
Having a USB drive with you at all times? Smart. Having a USB Drive that glows in the dark with you at all times? Smarter. Having a USB Drive that glows in the dark and looks like Lego with you at all times? That’s freakin’ genius, right there.
