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Looking to further subject your Mimobot USB flash drive to more unspeakable cuteness and accessorizing? Then look no further than Mimobot’s new series of protoHoodies.  

Hard to say why this here fad is just now catching on — after all, select studios warmed to the idea of putting their content onto portable flash storage years ago. That said, we’ve seen both Flix on Stix and this here contraption surface within the same month, but honestly, we’re having a hard time believing that it’s a niche waiting to explode. Mo-DV has just announced a new Universal Player for microSD cards, enabling Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile and your everyday Windows PC to play back DRM’d movies stored on a microscopic slab of memory. As for Android users, they’ll need version 2.1 or newer, and while few details are given, the company has confessed that more platform support is coming (good luck, Windows Phone 7). No one’s talking pricing or release information just yet, but potentially more frightening is this: has anyone ever considered just how inconvenient it is to keep a handful of microSD cards around, let alone swap them in and out of your smartphone?

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How’s this for post-purchase pleasantries? Super Talent has just revealed a new tidbit surrounding the world’s first USB 3.0 thumb drive (that would be the RAIDDrive), and it’s one that takes full advantage of second generation USB 3.0 controller technology — presumably on the PC side and not via a firmware update. The end result? An extra 55MB/sec on the benchmarking front, pushing its proven maximum speed to 370MB/sec. Head on past the break and mash play if you don’t believe us, and feel free to start pressing your own storage boutique of choice for something similar for all those other SuperSpeed products.

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From Han Solo to Hello Kitty, you can find a character that appeals to each person on your holiday shopping list at Mimobot. Mimobot features so many different styles and designs of its designer flash drives that you’ll have a hard time not finding a gift for each one of your friends. And, as luck has it, Mimobot is having a Black Friday sale going on now. You can save 30 percent off all Mimobot products from now through Cyber Monday — Monday, November 29. Also, get free shipping for orders over $30.

The most recent additions to the Mimobot gang are Toby, and HotChaChaCha by desinger Gary Baseman. The other two additons are Stormtrooper Han with Hair, and Stormtrooper Luke with Hair.

The Mimobots range from 2GB to 16GB of flash memory storage. Prices range from $24.95 to $79.95, respectively. If that seems a little steep in price for you, you can check out the Bargain ‘Bots section, where you can find Mimobots for less. For example, the Halo Red Spartan ranges in price from $16.95 for 2GB to $54.95 for a 16GB. 

Besides offering you storage, the drives also feature original exclusive preloaded “mimory” content. According to Mimobot’s Web site, the content includes:

“… MimoZine, a quarterly video-based digital magazine, [which] features interviews with musicians, profiles of artists, pop-culture event coverage, and other things at the intersection of technology and art. Also look for our mimoDesk personalization suite of wallpapers, icons, avatars, and screensavers to enrich your digital desktop experience and mimoByte sound software that gives MIMOBOT a voice.”

Check out Mimobot.com to take advantage of this Black Friday deal and score some sweet gifts. 

Last month, we mentioned the new Verbatim Clip-It USB drive: a fun, if not quirky, way to store data while keeping a stack of papers from blowing away in a stiff wind. At the time, pricing and availability hadn’t been announced, but today Verbatim said they would be available in the United States just in time for the holidays.

The design of the drive hasn’t changed, and can still be used as a paperclip as well as a storage device, and is suggested for people who want to include a little more data about themselves or their company with their business card, or want to provide a digital copy of a document attached to the physical copy.

Verbatim also said they would ditch the 2GB version in favor of the
4GB model only, and offer the Clip-It drive in five colors: pink, green,
blue, orange, and black. The lightweight USB drive will retail for $19.99, and will land in stores and online in December.