Posted: September 7th, 2009 | Author: Sly | Filed under: decapitated, photoshop, USB | No Comments »
My regular readers will probably know exactly what to expect from me when they see a USB thumb drive that looks like an animal on my website… the rest of you are in for a surprise. I was going to write this post about the latest breakthroughs in treatment for acne , but I simply couldn’t resist the USB tuxedo bear. At $17 for a 2GB drive, it isn’t the best deal around… you certainly won’t feel like you just stole a pic-a-nic basket, so you’d better really like bears if you’re buying this… or tuxedos.. or animals wearing tuxedos… or spending too much for flash drives. Hey, whatever floats your boat. Personally, I get my kicks by photoshopping blood into pictures of USB flash drives. Yeah, I’m probably the only one. Evidence is below:
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Posted: July 23rd, 2009 | Author: Sly | Filed under: data storage, decapitated, flash drive, USB | Tags: mint hard | No Comments »
What we have here is a really cool hard drive. It even comes with a lesson in Korean codespeak. Let me explain further- this product is called the Mint Hard. The company that makes it is called Mint- that part is straightforward. The reason they call it “hard” is another story- you see, in Korea, the word hard is the same word they use to refer to ice cream bars and hard drives, so the ice cream bar shaped hard drive makes perfect sense in their language.
Also, did you notice that USB Drive handle? They mention that it isn’t meant to be used as a handle… so those of you who want to treat your USB drives like industrial handles may want to think twice… or glue it in place (please don’t glue it in place). The hard drive automatically transfers any data from an inserted USB flash drive. I’m pretty sure you don’t have to use their USB handle exclusively.
Did you know that electronics made in Korea have a Seoul? Wow, what a bad pun. I do apologize. On the other hand, I stand firmly behind the following photshoped image:
Yeeh, I just went there. What can I say, it’s what I do.
product page [Mintpass] , source [craziest gadgets]
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Posted: July 8th, 2009 | Author: Sly | Filed under: data storage, USB | No Comments »
These PICO mini flash drives are cute, functional, colorful and priced right. They’re also waterproof! Besides being tiny, they are color coded to indicate storage capacity:
What makes these most appealing would be the relatively tiny size of just 32mm x 15mm x 3mm and weighing a mere 1.5 grams. Different colors denote varying capacities, where the pink 2GB, green 4GB, blue 8GB and black 16GB will be going for $9.99, $14.99, $23.99 and $39.99, respectively.
Since flash media has become so inexpensive, I’ve been thinking of installing Windows onto a flash drive and seeing just how functional that will turn out… TinyXP [wikipedia] looks like the ideal OS for this.
Super Talent Pico Mini USB Flash Drive [Ubergizmo]