When American beer meets data storage, the match almost seems like it was meant to be.

Well, it wasn’t. Have you ever had beer spill onto a USB 2.0 device? Apparently CNK Promotions hasn’t, because it was daring enough to claim the world’s first beer-filled USB drive. While it can’t open a beer for you, it can create a sticky mess all over your computer. If there is one thing we’ve learned from the past, it’s that beer is only good for one thing: drinkin’.

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Fancy spiders? Check out this creative piece of Flash animation. You can pull a spider around by its legs or just toss it about, making it your helpless victim for any torture you see fit. Still, no one wants to touch a real spider of that size anywhere but here, where the sky is the limit (actually it’s 255 pixels.) You can adjust the scale of both the body and legs, the color and even the speed of the spider. Have a cat? Let the good times roll my friend.

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After having seen a USB drive that comes packed with Ernie Hudson on it, it seemed like no other flash drive could ever come close to tickling my fancy. That is, until I saw this bad boy. While the USB drive bottle opener is far from a new concept, who says digital storage and beer don’t mix?

This nifty flash drive is from German manufacturer TrekStor, which proves that Germans know how to party. It’s available in sizes ranging from 1GB up to 16GB priced anywhere from $10 to $71. Imagine how fly you’ll look when cracking open your lady friend’s beer. Imagine how fly you won’t look once you show her what’s on the stick.

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Seriously, what’s better than a 2GB hard drive that’ll store twelve hours of movie goodness on it? How about a 2GB hard drive that also comes pre-loaded with Ghostbusters the movie? PNY is teaming up with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to release these non-themed Ghostbuster USB drives just in time for the 25th anniversary of the film next year.  The question you might be asking is, “How much does it cost?” The question you should be asking is, “How many should I get?” It’s got Ernie Hudson on it right out of the packaging, what more could you want!?

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Are the ladies not impressed by your old school flash drive or classy wine cork USB drive anymore? Crooks and Castles has the solution. They’ve designed a badass flash drive that’s encased in a machine gun bullet. Nobody will mess with you when you’re carrying your files around in this thing.

Hypebeast spotted the 1GB bullet USB drive at a trade show and it doesn’t seem like it’s available to the public yet. I think the bullet flash drive will be a hit if they decide to put it on sale. Wearing this thing around your neck would be the perfect way to proclaim your undying love for Counter Strike, gamers will go nuts for these

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The RIAA keeps chugging along and putting people with good intentions out of business. The latest casualty is Muxtape, an online mixtape service that I used and really enjoyed. You uploaded 13 of your favorite tracks and that’d be about it. What do I think will happen now? Nothing. Muxtape is not/does not have the money to license all those tracks at the current royalty rates. It was a nice ride but until the recording industry “gets it,” I’m afraid we’re screwed.

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Alex Weber is firefly crazy. He’s so fascinated by the synchronization of fireflies that he programmed these Amtel ATtiny chips to simulate the harmony of blinking light that fireflies are known for. At first, the microcontrollers blink in no particular rhythm but as time goes on, they are able detect the flashes of their neighboring LEDs and sync themselves in unison. It makes the unsynchronized LED cape look so yesteryear.

He’s posted DIY instructions and the algorithm for the microcontrollers on Instructables.com for anyone who wants to duplicate a jar full of fireflies. Now if only LED body piercings would blink in unison.

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Remember the days when everyone would compile mix tapes of their favorite NKOTB or M.C. Hammer tracks onto cassette? Bet they didn’t know that all those expensive cassettes would one day be melted down and turned into a skeleton. Vintage media sharing is making a come back. Instill nostalgia (maybe even doubt) with this Mix Tape USB Stick. It’s like a gift card with a 64 MB USB drive for storing your favorite tunes.

It might look like an out-of-this-world cassette tape, but it’s merely a case and has no practical use but to serve as a gift card of sorts. Basically, you’re paying $29 for a 64 MB USB drive. You just got ripped off, kid.

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Oh shit! Someone just ripped out my USB cable! Kidding. It’s just a USB flash drive. With two gigabytes of storage, this drive comes cut and frayed so everyone knows that you snagged your laptop off the desk while the printer was still connected. Or some asshole stole whatever was connected on the other side of that torn cord sticking out of your computer.

This is one flash drive sure to provide lots of unwanted attention. Unless of course you want attention, then you should get one of these to store all your taboo files on.

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It’s no joke that the Arduino is changing the way we build projects. I’ve even ordered one so I can start tinkering with it and discovering how it works. It seems a more advanced architect of sorts has already shown me up, though. This Powerball-based game lets you move around in a Flash-based game with the ball controller. Just like Tempest!

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