The Green Man USB Drive Can Do Impossible Yoga Poses

Practicing yoga can involve achieving higher levels of posing and meditation. Only Green Man can achieve true Nirvana by sitting cross legged with his decapitated head lying in his hands. Suck on that Sting! More »

Cake Decorator Takes Flash Drive Photograph a Bit Too Literally

Note to anyone buying a custom cake: Always print the picture you'd like recreated in frosting. Never just hand over a USB drive expecting things to work themselves out. [Cake Wrecks via The Raw Feed]

USB Drive Saves Data, Tells Future

Oh mystical USB drive I come to you with an important question: "Will there be any Snickers left in the breakroom vending machine?" (Stars Say Yes). Thank you USB drive. You are truly wise. More »

Kanguru's e-Flash Drive Can Handle USB and eSATA

In recent years, that vast majority of thumbdrive "innovations" have been...well...non-technical. However, Kanguru has actually done something useful by integrating an eSATA plug with a standard USB 2.0 drive. For folks with eSATA capability, that means performance speeds that are several times faster than USB. The drive even comes packaged with an eSATA + Power bracket and an eSATA + Power cable for easy hookup. The drives are shipping now in 16GB ($85) and 32GB ($120) varieties with a 64GB version slated for January of 2009. [Marketwatch]

USB Drive Proves Fertility Conventions Give Out the Best Swag Ever

Attendees can get some pretty cool swag at big conventions, but I have yet to see a product as functionally hysterical as this sperm-shaped USB drive handed out at the American Society For Reproductive Medicine's (ASRM) 2008 conference. I'll tell you what—whipping this thing out at while using your laptop at Starbucks should prove interesting. More »

Humping Bunny is a Daintier Way to Defile Your Computer

Humping dogs are great and all, but sometimes we'd prefer to have something cuter do the nasty with our USB ports. Why not go for the animal that everyone associates with overbreeding anyway? Imported from Japan (no surprise there), each satisfied-looking rabbit comes with adorably humping motions and 1GB of memory. You can get one now for $15 on Urban Outfitters' online store. [Urban Outfitters]

Tiny Quicksilver 3G Network Modem Comes to AT&T

AT&T users can now snap up the AT&T USBConnect Quicksilver, one of the smallest 3G HSPA-capable devices out there. The tiny little hub weighs 1.2 ounces and uses the new Icera Livanto chipset, which handles GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G data. That'll give you 70 to 135kpbs downloads on an EDGE network, and 700kbps to 1.7 Mbps downloads on HSPA. Best of all, it's free (if you get it with a two year contract and mail in the $100 rebate). [CrunchGear]

World's Cheapest 64GB USB Stick Costs Only $111

For the world's cheapest man, we present the world's (supposedly) cheapest 64GB USB stick. It's assembled just for you out of the Netherlands, the place where quality (?) USB drives are made. You have the choice of brown or black, which makes perfect sense since this thing's made of leather, and nobody wants a purple leather USB drive. We're cheap, not animals. [Van Der Led]

Zip Zip LEGO USB Drives Get Updated to 4GB

The previously 1GB Zip Zip LEGO USB drives are getting an update to 4GB. Unfortunately, Zip Zip still doesn't make these things out of real LEGO blocks—there's probably some legal reason preventing them from reselling it or something—but they're a good approximation. Things you shouldn't do with this: toss it into a huge bucket of regular LEGO. [Zipzip]

Asus MS71 Is a Wireless Mouse and a USB Thumb Drive

What do hardware engineers talk about when they're drunk? Merging two distinct gadgets into one gadget, as evidenced by this Asus MS71 mouse/storage device. It's a wireless laser mouse, but at the same time it's a USB thumb drive. The marriage of the two may sound good on paper—if you don't think about it for more than five seconds—but the actual execution gets you either something that's way too cramped to use comfortably as a mouse, or way too big to shove comfortably into a USB port. How about a Webcam/USB thumb drive next? Maybe we need to be more drunk to come up with these things. [Newlaunches]

USB Drive For Winos With Cash

This USB drive is more than its wine-shaped exterior would suggest. It's a tool for the hardcore wine enthusiast. Features include; 1GB of memory, wine related ringtones (eh?), desktop wallpaper, a screensaver, a wine tasting demo by Michel Rolland (who?), and privileged access to the BeWineConnected Club. The most interesting feature however, is the inclusion of the wine cellar management software "Open Cellar" that allows wine lovers to manage their collection from any computer. If you think that all of this may be a little excessive, I agree. Then again, I don't have the cash to buy and stock a cellar, and Miller Light gets me drunk just fine. Available for around $50 [BeWine via Apartment Therapy]

USB Dog Tag Chew Toy IDs Dogs, Children

This USB drive holds 512MB of doggie data like pictures and its favorite diet, which is perfect for attaching to an actual dog so whenever it gets lost, people can use it to figure out exactly where to return the dog to. Of course, a slip of paper with your address and phone number would be the same, but since when did crazy ass Solid Alliance worry about practicality? The best part is that it's chewy and rubbery, so if it ever gets eaten it'll come out the other side relatively intact—unlike other USB drives. [Rakuten via Tokyo Mango]

Handcrafted Thalbach Design Thumb Drives (Anniversary Material)

If there's one piece of tech that's suffered from quick commodification, it's the USB flash drive—which is all the more reason that original products stick out in the market. We've seen wooden flash drives before, but these flash drives from Thalbach Design are heirloom material. Veneered in polished and oiled maple, ash and even a 150 year old burled wood (pictured above), a 4GB stick will run you $135, but you are a big important CEO who burns the midnight oil squeezed fresh from "used up" Benjamins anyway, so what is a little extra cash for some classy gear? [product via technabob]

Flash Padlock: For the Paranoid Delusional On the Go

The Flash Padlock, available in 1 or 2gb models, is made for people who think that their data is far too important to be kept on any ol' unsecured thumb drive. When you remove your thumb drive from the USB port it automatically goes into lock-down mode. However all you have to do is enter in your handy dandy PIN number and poof you've unrestricted access to all of your files. Now just don't go and do something stupid like make the PIN your birthday or 1-2-3-4, OK? [Product Page via Shiny Shiny]

USB Stone is 4GB of Rock Solid Storage

Michael Leung, some designer, made this USB "Mass Storage Stone," which holds 4GB of flash memory inside a rock. It started as a prototype in 2005, and it's "in development" now to become a real product. Whether that will actually happen is anyone's guess, but who wouldn't want to carry around storage that you can kill someone with? [Studio Leung via Swiss Miss via Geek Sugar] More »

Super Tiny Micro SD Card Reader - Super, Tiny

The "Super Tiny Micro SD Card Reader" gets about as small as physically possible to read Micro SD and and T-Flash media, while still connecting to a normal USB 2.0 port. At a mere 25.5 x 12 x 4.5 mm, the reader is dwarfed by keys—I mean, just look at that picture—unless Brando is using the old "big key trick" again. More »

Store All Your Stuff On This Little 4GB Pill

Want USB storage? Take a pill. You might have trouble swallowing this pill because it's 2 inches long, but hey, if you do end up ingesting this thing for whatever reason, you'll be happy to know you can store 4GB of your favorite data internally, until it comes out the other side. More »

SoundDrive: The Talking USB Drive

I have a huge collection of thumb drives from every press event I've ever been to, but none of them is as talented as this one. The SoundDrive is the first thumb drive I've seen with speakers built into it, so the moment you plug it in, it starts yapping away. I can see this being helpful for the visually impaired maybe, but considering all of my thumb drives are from press events, the last thing I want is a talking press release. – Louis Ramirez More »

Save That Flash Drive: Vista Speedup or Tax-Deductable Gift

Are you accumulating flash drives in a bottom drawer somewhere? Don't throw them away just yet because you can use them with Microsoft Windows Vista. Plug any USB 2.0 flash memory drive that holds at least 256MB but no more than 4GB into your PC and Autoplay gives you a choice to invoke ReadyBoost, where Vista will use the drive's memory as an additional disk cache to speed things up. Just click Speed up My System and you're off and running. More »

Thumb Drive...Drive

We know that most of you have an old unused thumb drive laying around just taking up space. Ok not much physical space, but you get the drift. More »

Ceedo Mobile Launcher Turns Any USB Stick Into a Smart One

If you're in the market for a SanDisk Cruzer Titanium USB stick because of its U3 Launchpad, wait! Your old USB stick may still be of use yet, thanks to Ceedo. More »

USB Geek MP3 Player: So Cheap, It's Almost Disposable

Those of us who have kids nagging them for an iPod will be happy to see this $15 MP3 player, enough to keep those wee ones happy for hours on end. How many hours? Well, you'll get 10 hours of music playback on one AAA battery. This thing is so cheap, the SD/MMC memory card you insert inside will cost more than the player itself. More »

USBM8 Portable Flash Drive

This USBM8 Portable Flash Drive looks like an orange popsicle but can store your entire life inside, freeing you from those pesky earthbound PCs. More »

Sweex Blue Bay Flash-Stick MP3 Player

There are a few MP3 players in the thumb-drive form-factor out already, but very few of them have an LCD screen with a built in microphone. This Sweex Blue Bay (I typed "Blu" seven times out of Blu-ray muscle memory) has 256MB, 512MB, 1GB or 2GB of storage with MP3 and WMA support. You can use this as a standard thumb-drive for storing documents and bust out the tunes when you're commuting between community college and your parents' house. – Jason Chen More »

Apricorn Releases 8GB MicroKey

Apricorn has released a MicroKey USB 2.0 drive with even more capacity, this one holding 8GB. It stores all that data in a relatively small form factor of 3.4" x 2" x 0.5". Yes, there is a hard disk inside as opposed to more-durable flash memory, but Apricorn says it has built a tank around that disk, surrounding it with a hardened aluminum alloy casing that you can drop or sit on without worrying about your data going south. More »

2GB U3 Smart Drive Makes You a Happy Camper

With a 2GB U3 Smart Drive, you actually can take it with you. Once you load all of your favorite Windows XP or 2000 settings, applications, and everything else, you can just plug it into any computer and suddenly you feel like you re home sweet home. Go on about your business, and everything you change, do, or save goes right on that thumb drive, ready for you to take with you. More »

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: That sound your computer's fan is making? It roughly translates to "Help! I'm being strangled by cat hair!" Get under your PC's hood and evacuate the dust bunnies partying on your video card. More »