USBee

Christine | 8:52 pm | March 18, 2008 | USB Flash Drives

It seems that today high-tech products manufacturers compete in foreseeing possible breakages in their products: Sony were the 1st to use a built-in gyroscope in their laptops, Apple have introduced MagSafe. And it’s not surprising, since mobile devices are used, and often abused, nonstop.

USBee flash drive is a concept created with the view of preventing losing important information by a careless move that can destroy any thumb drive sticking out of the usb port. This usb flash drive is supposed to have an elastic neck to be able to bend in any direction, and quite surprisingly it has something that you wouldn’t expect a flash drive to have – a cooling system.

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The design itself is very nice, it probably should be sold with the following warning on the label: “Keep away from children, can be taken for a toy”.

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Source: Yanko Design

USB Tannenbaum 2.0

maksim | 8:19 pm | January 18, 2008 | USB Flash Drives

Deep in the shadows of strangely silly and wonderfully childish Great Woods of USB Crap there exist bizarre little creatures that speak German and smell of fresh pine. Thallbach, a company from the town of Wasserburg, makes USB flash drives with ordinary insides of 4gb and extraordinary price of almost 100 euro, and a choice of external body being made of a selection of woods, from birch to palisander, polished and varnished to pseudo-natural perfection.

Germans have a special relationship with woods and trees. For them, a forest is a sacred place, a stage of ancient myths and fairy tales. Die bűrger from Hamburg love woods and know woods more than Americans do hamburgers. They would talk to a tree, just like a Hindu would hug a cow or a Mexican would live with a cactus.

If you are German and like to spend your time in a company of IKEA genocide victims then you will probably love the idea. For the rest of us, it is just silly to pay extra 50 euro for a chance to carry a piece of German tannenbaum in a pocket. And it is not stylish. A bit like wearing leopard skin pants- you will be the man of teenage dreams in urban Zimbabwe, but will probably come across as a little old-fashioned anywhere else.

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Source: Thallbach.de

Citius, Altius, Fortius!

Christine | 4:22 am | December 18, 2007 | USB Flash Drives

When ancient Greeks engraved these three words – Citius, Altius, Fortius – on the main entrance to the Ancient Olympic Games, they probably didn’t expect them to be used to such an extent they are these days. Technology has picked up the motto and new records are set quicker than ever before.

Today, the time lag between technology of a schoolboy game console and a NASA computer is no more than a couple of years. And the gap is getting smaller. Already, we expect our TVs to be slimmer than the chances of snow in London this Christmas. Soon, we will demand our vacuum cleaners to to do shopping for us.

Probably the most evident example of that is flash memory, where new records are set every month. SHD-U32GS, a new 32GB TurboUSB memory card, is 20% faster than any other USB memory cards and allows to store up to 32GB. It is not the first USB drive to reach this milestone, but it is the quickest.

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Source: Akihabara News

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