Calvin Klein’s new sunglasses offer up a little storage with your UV protection thanks to a 4GB USB flash drive embedded in the right arm.
The world has changed. My first digital camera – a Cybershot P9 from Sony that shot 5MP stills and cost me $1,300 (right before the bottom fell out of the digital camera market) was state of the art for its time. Nowadays, both DSLRS and compacts are shooting HD video, 10MP stills and can chew through your memory faster than my old Cybershot chewed through its included 32MB memory stick. Fortunately, memory has also changed to adapt to the growing needs of the discerning photographer, with faster read and write speeds and higher capacities. And Giz AU has partnered with Lexar to offer readers the chance to win one of 10 high capacity storage prize packs.
PassKey, iamaKey, and itsaKey are the new LaCie’s new USB keys. They can connect microSD—20MB/s reads and 10MB/s writes—with the last two adding 4GB or 8GB storage. No info on price or availability. [Engadget]
Oh mystical USB drive I come to you with an important question: “Will there be any Snickers left in the breakroom vending machine?” (Stars Say Yes). Thank you USB drive. You are truly wise.
In recent years, that vast majority of thumbdrive “innovations” have been…well…non-technical. However, Kanguru has actually done something useful by integrating an eSATA plug with a standard USB 2.0 drive. For folks with eSATA capability, that means performance speeds that are several times faster than USB. The drive even comes packaged with an eSATA + Power bracket and an eSATA + Power cable for easy hookup. The drives are shipping now in 16GB ($US85) and 32GB ($US120) varieties with a 64GB version slated for January of 2009. [Marketwatch]
For the world’s cheapest man, we present the world’s (supposedly) cheapest 64GB USB stick. It’s assembled just for you out of the Netherlands, the place where quality (?) USB drives are made. You have the choice of brown or black, which makes perfect sense since this thing’s made of leather, and nobody wants a purple leather USB drive. We’re cheap, not animals. [Van Der Led]
