Apr 28

LaCie DataShare recycles your bits, will never say goodbye or hurt you

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As gadget nerds and Type-A early adopters, you no doubt have a few microSD and SD / SDHC cards laying around that Cheeto-farm you call an office. LaCie’s $10 DataShare USB card readers let you recycle those cards into make-shift USB drives. Not bad for a ginger. Watch the uncomfortably arousing video after the break — go ahead it’s safe, LaCie wants you to.

[Via Pocket-Lint]

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Apr 27

Crapgadget: No wonder the economy sucks edition

Posted in: flash drive, FlashDrive, mp3 player, Mp3Player, Today's Chili, usb, usb drive, UsbDrive

While we here at Engadget are doing everything in our power to get this philosophical “economy” back “on track,” it’s items like these that aren’t doing anything to help. No innovation. No stimulating capabilities. No utility at all, really. Just a webcam that scans business cards, an MP3 player shaped like a cow and a flash drive that’s absolutely not certified for circulation by the Democratic National Committee. Though, we must say that they’re all tailor made for Crapgadget, which is (just barely) good enough for us — drop your vote for the lamest below!

Read – CowCow MP3 player
Read – 4-Port Soccer Ball USB Hub
Read – MSI StarCam Flip Webcam
Read – USB Bird Fan
Read – Bling Bling USB Card Reader
Read – Obama Flash Drive

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Apr 22

EagleTec Nano flash drive makes losing data easier than ever

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Still haven’t found a USB drive small enough for your needs? Then you might want to consider EagleTec’s new Nano flash drive now available from the ever dependable folks at Brando, which measures an impossibly tiny 19 x 15 x 6 mm and weighs in at a mere three grams. Despite that size, however, you’ll still get a fairly generous 4GB or 8GB of storage ($22 and $33, respectively), and an included lanyard that’ll let you attach it to something you’re less likely to misplace, though you’re on your own keeping the drive’s cap from wandering off.

[Via OhGizmo]

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Apr 11

Crapgadget: USB abomination edition (with a pinch of superhero)

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Seriously, just listen at this and try to stifle your sighs. “Bling Bling USB optical mouse.” “Jewel Necklace USB flash drive.” “Turtle-Look USB 2.0 Hub with a tray.” “Magic Sensor LCD Alarm Clock.” “Insect USB Mini Fan.” Yes, friends, this is the type of utter garbage we’re dealing with in this episode of Crapgadget. Honestly, we’re simultaneously astounded and deeply depressed that anyone would even consider dishing out their hard-earned cheddar for any of this rubbish, but we’re doing our darnedest to pretend that these were simply created for us to have a laugh at.The week’s strongest contender? Some superhero magnet pixels… and that’s saying something.

Read – Bling Bling mouse
Read – Jewel necklace USB drive
Read – Turtle USB hub
Read – Sensor alarm clock
Read – Insect fan
Read – Magnetic pixels

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Apr 01

Corsair gets official with mostly pointless Voyager Port

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Corsair actually debuted its questionably useful Voyager Port earlier this month at CeBIT, but it’s just now getting around to making things official. By the books, this one is described as an “innovative solution to transform any USB flash drive into a powerful and flexible portable backup and recovery device,” but really, it does nothing that a standalone USB stick couldn’t do given the right software. Essentially, one plugs this into their machine, loads up the bundled NovaBACKUP 10 application, sticks in a USB flash drive and mashes a single button to start the PC-to-USB drive backup process. In other words, it’s an unnecessary middleman. Unfortunately, Corsair has yet to come clean with pricing, but anything over $5 or so could be classified as highway robbery.

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Mar 27

Canon EOS 5D Mark II flash drive: just 21.1MP shy of awesomeness

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You could say that this is the perfect USB flash drive for existing EOS 5D Mark II owners. We’d argue, however, that this is the perfect USB flash drive for those looking to just live vicariously while not shattering the bank. ‘Course, $129.99 for a 4GB USB key is pretty absurd, but at least that gets you Live View and a 1080p movie mode. Er, wait…

[Via Zungua]

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Feb 06

Engadget’s recession antidote: win a set of Star Wars Mimobot USB drives!

Posted in: flash drive, FlashDrive, recession, Star Wars, Today's Chili, usb

So yes, you know the drill: the economy reeks, we’re all tired of the daily dose of bad news. Engadget’s trying to counter-attack a little bit of that hurting, so here’s the deal: we’re going to hand out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got a set of eight Star Wars Mimobot USB flash drives on offer — each drive is 1GB, and man are they cute! Read the rules (no skimming — we hate that!) below and get commenting!

Special thanks to Mimoco for providing the drives!

The rules:

  • Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share a tale of heart wrenching economic strife, that’s good too.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
  • Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive 8 1GB Mimobot flash drives. Approximate value is $240.
  • Entries can be submitted until Friday, February 6th, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
  • Full rules can be found here.


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Feb 03

USB cake design worst birthday surprise in history

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Imagine this — you walk into a custom confectionery and inform the design team that you want the image on a USB flash drive made onto a very special cake. In fact, you even leave the flash drive with them so they can really look it over. Sure, you’d think they would get to frost-brushing that unicorn flying through a rainbow right onto the cake, but apparently the artists in question had other ideas. Namely, creating a photo-perfect replica of a Lexar flash drive on the surface of what appears to be an otherwise delicious pile of sugar. Seriously. Too bad about that black icing, birthday boy.

[Via UberReview]

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Jan 27

Nine USB flash drives compared in file system showdown

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Kristofer Brozio already spent more time with more flash drives than most would dare to with his last USB drive round-up, but he’s now come back for another go ’round, and this time he’s even gone so far as to compare their performance with different file systems. To make things a bit more manageable, he pared things down to nine drives from the initial group of 21, and formatted and reformatted each with FAT32, NTFS and ExFAT file systems. As with last time, he found that the OCZ and Super Talent drives proved to be the best overall performers and, while ExFAT did come out on top in a number of benchmarks, he still recommends FAT32 due to its greater compatibility and still decent performance. Still need a bit more convincing? Then hit up the link below for the graph explosion.

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Jan 14

Sirtified throws up hand USB flash drives

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Let’s face it — it’s hard to connect with kids these days, but Sirtified clearly knows what’s up. The outfit’s forthcoming line of Hand USB Sticks include 2GB of storage space and arrive in three street-approved models: Rock, West Side and a version that looks awfully similar to the Engadget logo. Hold the hand of your choice next month for $35.

[Thanks, Kyle]

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