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Mimoco has been offering Star Wars themed flash drives for a long time now. In fact, the latest batch of five themed flash drives is the eighth series to come from the company. I happen to think this series has what might be the coolest of all the Star Wars Mimobot flash drives the company has ever offered.

Any male geek out there who is a fan of Star Wars probably remembers one specific scene from Return of the Jedi and that would be the scene where Princess Leia is clad in a gold bikini and chained to Jabba the Hutt.

Mimoco is offering that Slave Leia flash drive complete with a chain around her neck and a bikini top. Granted the curved nature of the flash drive makes slave Leia a bit more portly than she was back in the 80s.

The series also includes a Jabba the Hutt flash drive, Admiral Ackbar flash drive (It’s a trap!), and Luke Skywalker Jedi drive. While that Princess Leia flash drive is most appealing to me, anyone intent on collecting these Mimobots want to keep an eye out at San Diego Comic-Con for a very limited edition Biker Scout drive. Only 1000 of those will be made and they will only be available at Comic-Con. The drives are available in 8 GB to 64 GB capacities here.

[via EverythingUSB]

This may be the greatest day in history of themed flash drives. If you look back at every Star Wars movie made, one of the most iconic scenes is slave Princess Leia dressed up in that gold bikini in Return of the Jedi. That particular scene has been getting geeks fired up for decades. If you’re a fan of the Star Wars theme mimobot flash drives from mimoco, you want to check out this new series.

The latest series is the eighth in the Star Wars production run, and certainly the coolest is the Slave Leia version complete with bikini. The series also includes a Jabba the Hut, Admiral Akbar, and Luke Skywalker with blonde hair and robotic hand. Luke has been in more of these flash drive series than any other character.

The company is also offering an exclusive version in the series strictly at San Diego Comic-Con. That special edition is a Biker Scout from the forests of Endor. I will say Jabba is a bit too skinny in flash drive form while Leia is a bit too large. The special flash drives will be available in 8 GB to 64 GB capacities. There will only be 1000 of the Biker Scout units made.

[via EverythingUSB]

Series 8 mimobots offer Jabba and Slave Leia is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Virtually every corner of the Google universe is being touched at Google I/O, and that now includes Google Drive. A version 2 update to the Drive SDK gives Android and iOS developers the option of building the cloud storage into their mobile apps, whether it’s downloads, uploads or on-the-spot edits. The programming interface has likewise been expanded as a whole to handle everyday file duties, such as conversions, copying and revision handling. Web-only users are taken care of with support for embedded shares and opening Google documents in any given software that will take the exportable formats. The updated Drive SDK is ready to go, with a flood of apps either coming or already here — if you want to hop on the bandwagon, just take a peek at the source link.

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Here we have another newly announced 4-bay NAS server from QNAP, the TS-469 PRO. Designed for SMB / SOHO users, this 4-bay NAS server is equipped with a mono-LCD backlight display, a 2.13GHz Intel Atom D2700 dual-core processor, a 1GB RAM (expandable up to 3GB), four 3.5-inch SATA HDD bays, 2x Gigabit Ethernet, 2x USB 3.0 ports, 5x USB 2.0 ports, 2x eSATA ports and a 90mm quiet cooling fan. The TS-469 PRO will start shipping in late June for unannounced price yet. [QNAP]

Seagate has announced that it has partnered with DensBits for the development of SSDs for consumer and enterprise markets. The goal of the two companies is to develop low-cost and high-performance solid-state drives for consumer and enterprise markets and Seagate has made an equity investment in DensBits. Exactly, how much Seagate invested in DensBits is unknown.

The two companies will be developing future products with the goal of providing customers with cost savings, high reliability, and high-performance. The agreement will see the DensBits Memory Modem controller technology integrated into various Seagate storage products. Some applications will use three bit per cell TLC 1Xnm flash-based consumer-great SSD technology.

Other applications will make use of to bit per cell MLC 1Xnm flash-based enterprise-grade SSDs. There’s no clear indication of exactly when SSD’s using the technology from this partnership will come to market. There’s also no indication of what sort of price range the two companies will target with the storage products.

Seagate and DensBits announce development partnership for SSDs is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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