<![CDATA[Gizmodo: cruzer]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: cruzer]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/cruzer http://gizmodo.com/tag/cruzer <![CDATA[SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus Backs Up Its Contents Online]]> The SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus is more than just an ordinary USB drive—it forces you to be responsible by backing up everything you place on it in a secure location far away from that maelstrom you call everyday life. So stick 4GB on board this $60 pocket-sized lifeboat, and as soon as it's able, it automatically sends all that data up to the mother ship, an online backup service that's free for the first six months. After that, you'll have to pay $29.99 per year. SanDisk needs to know one thing, though: Titanium is not a golden color as you see here, guys. Anyway, backing up is a great new year's resolution, so don't wait for this trinket to ship in March to get started. [SanDisk]

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<![CDATA[SanDisk Cruzer Contour Looks Monolithically Sexy]]> If you're in the market for a cool-looking flash drive and the SanDisk Ducati looks a little bit too much mid-life crisis to you, might we suggest their Cruzer Contour (which we saw back at CES). It's a glossy black drive with an extendable/retractable USB connector. Yeah, that means you won't have to keep track of a USB cap anymore. So not only is it convenient, the tapered end and black design make it pretty slick to look at as well. [SanDisk]

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<![CDATA[SanDisk Cruzer Contour: Trying to Bring the Bling]]> Sandisk brought out its new Cruzer Contour USB flash drive, which aims for the "elegant look and feel of a fine fountain pen." Right. While I wouldn't go that far, it is definitely packing in the looks department. The outer casing is metallic with a nice, solid feel, which houses a shiny black case (not quite PS3 shiny). The black shell in turn houses the actual USB connector and its lid, which engages automatically when you slide the connector back into the shell, as you can see in the video after the jump. Cooler still is that it features U3 for running apps straight off of the drive. There are three storage capacities available: 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8GB, the latter being SanDisk's biggest flash drive yet. They sell for $90, $150, and $240, respectively, and drop in March. Another picture and video of the in-and-out action after the jump, if you know what I'm sayin'. And I think you do.

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<![CDATA[USB Drive Urine Test]]> After a night of drunken shenanigans some friends and I made our way back to my apartment. One particular dude decided to sleep over on the floor because he was in no condition to drive. Well sometime from when we went to sleep at 3 a.m. and when I woke up at 8 a.m. this friend managed to urinate all over my coffee table. One of the items that was urinated on was my beloved 2GB SanDisk Cruzer Titanium. Jump to see if it survived.

Success! The SanDisk Cruzer Titanium works fine and dandy after a thorough drying off. Good job, SanDisk, your products withstand the pee-test.

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<![CDATA[SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway: Vote for the Winners!]]> That be it, folks. Our SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway is now over. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries and thanks to SanDisk for sponsoring this contest. We have two, 2GB Cruzer Titanium flash drives to give away, and it is up to you to decide who wins. We narrowed down the entries to some of the best. Hit to jump to see all of the entries, hear their stories and vote for the winners. The two entries that receive the most votes will win the 2GB Cruzer Titanium

Voting will end on Wednesday.

Poll is at the bottom, yo.

Spencerland
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"Several months ago i was painting my ipod mini and messed up taping over the wheel and screen. So i got pissed of at it and decided to shoot it with a BB gun and beat the shit out of it with my katana. Now all i have is the 50 cent edition ipod wich was the only suitible name for my extreamly beat up ipod."


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"Here's how some friends and I tested the strenght of a particularly bad PC. Aways crashing. Always having problems. It just sucked.

We used concussive targets that are used for long range target shooting to help persude the PC to cooperate. Much fun was had, much beer was drunk (after the shooting was over, of course)."


Sanjay N.
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"A few years ago, when I was a college kid at NYU, I hopped into an elevator with my then-girlfriend and two other girls. Halfway up to the top the elevator stopped moving — the damn thing got stuck at 1 a.m.
in the morning! "We're in a college dormitory in the middle of New York City, so no worries, this won't be a problem," I thought. Wrong.

We alerted security, who told us that we'd have to wait for an engineer to arrive. An hour and a half later the engineers and security guards finally arrive on the floor above us; and now we can hear them
tinkering around. Then they announce that they a) cannot fix the elevator and b) don't have an elevator key to open the shaft door.

So the four of us had to force the door open from the inside, and then reach up to the sixth floor landing and unlock the floor latch for the engineer and guards. Now we're staring at the socks and shoes of the
security guards and lone engineer because the elevator is halfway between floor five and six.

"Okay, now hurry and get the hell out of there!" The guards tell us. We all looked at each other and then everyone scrambled up and hoisted themselves out through the wedge of space. I was last to go, and as I
brought my leg over the lip of the sixth floor elevator shaft, I felt something leap from my pocket.

My iPod. I grabbed the headphones, but the socket unplugged and the iPod disappeared like a tiny snowflake into the black maw of the elevator shaft. "Forget it, just get out," the guard said."

Dennis T.
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"I have had to work with troublesome 100MB Zip drives for some years now. We have finally convinced people at my company that USB drives are a lot easier and portable to carry around. So since we can finally get rid of these 100 MB drives, being the sportsmen that we are, we finished them off. It felt really good to be done with them."

ThisGuy
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"Attached are my formerly beloved Zaurus—notice how the screen protector completely failed—and the Korean "gadget" responsible for breaking it, a Hyundai Galloper which was completely unable to withstand hitting a 20 ton fish truck head-on at a relative speed of 120kph. I surprised myself by coming out of the driver's seat still able to operate a touch-screen, but the Zaurus became a linux-powered work of modern art, as useless as the Hyundai (which really wasn't that useful before I turned it into instant metal sculpture). Next time, I'm sure I'd come out with fewer injuries if I had a completely indestructible flash drive to interpose between myself and the oncoming semi."

Mark R.
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"What happens when you send an HP TC1100 Tablet PC through the mail? Well, the attached photo demonstrates the end result. This is my new tablet as sent to me from our IT department. There was no doubt that somebody (not me) really goofed on this one."

Jonathan eMachine

"eMachines are definitely destructable"

Jonathan Keyboard
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"his old keyboard had been cleaned and was sitting in the (turned-off) gas oven, drying, when my sister turned on said oven without looking inside. After about an hour, we noticed that the house was filling with (probably carcinogenic) smoke."


Robert B.

"Fragile: Handle With Care"


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"You're surfing on some websites...There is popup... (Ok with some really fine popup ;-) ) You're girl friend just see the popup when she walking behind you: bang! Jealousy is there! You're looking for other girls on the net, bla bla bla, bla bla bla, and just after, your laptop is flying for 5 meters onto a real wall which don't move. Here is the result. Now it is working as a great Windows Media Center in the garage, used through my Xbox 360."

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<![CDATA[SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway Deadline Extension]]>
Just a heads up, our SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway was supposed to end today, but I decided to be a kind fellar and extend the deadline until Tuesday to give you folks all of Labor Day weekend to destroy some shizzle. If you have no clue what we are talking about, listen up. SanDisk has supplied us with a couple 2GB Cruzer Titanium USB flash drives to be given away in our SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway. Follow the linkage below to find out what you need to do to win these flash drives.

Thanks to Alex for his submission of BlackBerry carpentry. Thanks again to SanDisk for sponsoring this contest.

SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway

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<![CDATA[SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway Update]]> There are only a couple days left in our SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway. If you are just tuning in, we are giving away a couple SanDisk 2GB Cruzer Titanium w/ U3 USB flash drives. To figure out what you need to do, follow the linkage here.

Thanks to Mark for this very, very sad picture of a broken HP Tablet PC. It was shipped to Mark and the shipper decided to send it via U.S. Priority Mail ... in an envelope. It is kind of neat to see how much damage the USPS can do to an unprotected laptop.

Also thanks goes to SanDisk for sponsoring this contest and providing the 2GB Cruzer Titanium flash drives.

SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway [Gizmodo]

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<![CDATA[SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway Update]]>
If you recall, we are giving away a couple of the SanDisk 2GB Cruzer Titanium w/ U3 USB flash drives in our Indestructible Giveaway. Follow the linkage here to get all of the details on the contest and what you need to do to win. Thanks to Rob for his video submission of a monitor getting destroyed.

Also, big props to SanDisk for sponsoring the contest and providing the fabulous prizes.

SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway

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<![CDATA[SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway: Win a 2GB Cruzer Titanium with U3]]> If you recall, yesterday we reviewed the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium USB flash drive. At the end of the review I told you we would be giving some away, and now we are. We have two 2GB SanDisk Cruzer Titaniums up for grabs.

This Cruzer Titanium is damn near indestructible, unlike most other gadgets out there. So, we want you to show us the gadgets you have that are destructible. You can do this in one of two ways: either show us your already busted gadget—in JPEG please, no wider than 520 pixels—and include a brief sob story explaining the broken gadget. Or, the other option is to take a gadget you already have, break it—preferably on film—and upload the video over at Youtube. Be sure to tag the video with Gizmodo. Once you are done, shoot an e-mail containing your submission—pictures or link to the Youtube video—to contests@gizmodo.com with SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway in the subject line.

The contest ends next Friday, September 1, at noon eastern. All of the standard Gawker Contest Rules apply and big props to SanDisk for sponsoring this contest.

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<![CDATA[SanDisk U3 Cruzer Drives Are Skype Compatible]]> This sounds like more of a product promotion tie-in than a technological breakthrough, but the new SanDisk U3 Cruzer Smart Drives have Skype loaded in. You can keep all your contacts, account info, and the Skype program on the disk and use it on any old computer you visit—provided that computer has a mic and speakers.

If you're going to buy a thumb drive, say for your parents, you might as well get one that comes with Skype. SanDisk Cruzer Micro Sizes range from 512MB to 4GB, and cost $39 to $199. SanDisk Cruzer Titanium are 1GB and 2GB and cost $74 and $119 respectively.

Press Release [SanDisk - Thanks Bruce!]

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<![CDATA[Sandisk Gives Students Flash Drives, Access to Porn]]> Sandisk has introduced their new Cruzer Freedom (Cruz@r Fr33d0m y0!11) to the burgeoning, and lucrative, student market. The device is a 256MB drive with a snazzy LED light and keychain that "lets students carry secure and legal Internet downloads of textbooks, novels, study aids, learning tools and other copyrighted content." Yes, copyrighted content includes porn, AVIs of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and instructions—that don't work, BTW—on how to turn morning glory seeds into LSD. It also uses Sandisk's FlashCP content protection scheme to keep everything secure. But wait, that's not all folks, here's the actual cool part (yes, one exists):

When a student plugs a Cruzer Freedom for the first time into a PC that is connected to the Internet, the device is initialized and can access the SanDisk Online Catalog. The student, with his or her parent's assistance, can then select content for downloading, and the content is secured to that specific drive. Digital books are interactive, so text can be highlighted, annotated and searched.

Whoa! That means that like, if I lose it, no one can use my books and I get to pay for a whole new drive AND books! Sweet! Thanks, Sandisk!

SanDisk offers USB flash drive for students [MacNN]

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