I do prefer wooden USBs over plastic ones simply due to the fact that they are more shock-absorbent upon dropping them from high floors.

This one is from Japan and does indeed look pretty cool.

I like this Wooden Thumb Drive. Its casing is made of cedar wood and provides 1GB of storage capacity. The Wooden Thumb Drive retails for approx. $62 in Japan.

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Take advantage of this offer, a 4GB Flash Drive for $9.99.

PQI i221 4GB USB 2.0 flash drive is now introduced to the current memory market and it quickly becomes one of the fast growing portable storage devices for PCs. It is portable, durable, and convenient.
Only today so go here to order.

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It’d be hard to believe but yes, Sergey Brin and Larry Page made their first 40GB Google Storage Server with lego casing.  Perhaps they might have been great lego-designers if they didn’t come up with Google.

The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford. Click to see the equipment in its laboratory setting on the basement floor of Gates Information Sciences. Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an enormous amount of storage in comparison with typical student projects at that time. We show here the original storage assembly, containing 10 4 Gigabyte disk drives, giving 40 Gbytes total.

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Here’s a new type of USB Flash drive that’s going to make you laugh and feel secure at the same time.  It’s a Nail USB flash drive that looks like a big nail stuck in your computer like this:

This is the first product from plankton, a new design company based in the Netherlands. The USB stick is made of polyurethane and iron and has a 1 GB memory capacity.

Now, just don’t get this Nail USB Flash Drive with the USB Nail Care System.

via technabob

Check out some of the gravy food USB Drives from Brando.

The one pictured above are actually pizza and hamburger flash drives. - USB Fast Food Flash Drive

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If you are thinking about getting a “secure” USB flash drive to protect your data, consider Nexcopy’s USB Secure USB Flash Drives.

Nexcopy offers the TrusCont Secure Flash Drive which are high capacity, high performance USB flash drives with enhanced functionality such as USB copy protection and full digital rights management. The TSFD offers a level of control and functionality at the end-user level which has never been seen before.

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If you thought humping USB dog was too x-rated, here’s a slightly more G-rated version, a Crunching dog USB that does sit-ups.

They’ve got the Dalmation, Beagle, and Labrader USB dogs, all with a six-pack.

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There’s a finally a non-geeky way to carry your USB flash drives.  Now you can get the SkateDrive, which is a miniture Skateboard USB you can carry about discreetly.

Action Sport Drives have teamed up with Santa Cruz to create the first and only authentic USB Flash Drive skateboards. We’ve combined this innovative design with the graphics from actual Santa Cruz skateboard.

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5 TB 3.5 inch hard drives maybe coming soon…in the next 2 years or so.

Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

According to a report by Nikkei Net, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will use Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane Giant Magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR) magnetc read heads to achieve the aim. This, the firm claims, will allow its drives to store 1TB of data in every square inch of the recording surface.

via reghardware

This robot USB sucks with only 256MB, pretty much useless unless you like the form design factor.

The USB drive robot is not only functional he is a conversation piece. This little guy is a 256MB drive and includes a clasp to attach to your keychain, briefcase, or purse. Also available in 1G (Select at Checkout). His arms are flexed showing is muscle powers.  Made of plastic and metal.