It’s hard to keep yourself well-groomed when you’re sitting in front of a computer screen all-day. Sometimes I look in the mirror and jump make in shock. “Who the hell is that grizzly hobo staring back at me?”
This $35 USB Comb Drive gives me an excuse to perform the most basic of hygienic acts, no matter how busy I might pretend to be. Now all I need is a pube trimming mouse.
Even though we’ve pretty much sworn off paper in exchange for various gadgets, it’s always nice to have a pad of paper and a few stacks of Post-It notes sitting around the house, just in case you need to jot down a phone number really quick or something.
This Sticky Note USB Drive saves you a few centimeters by integrating the Post-It note pad right into the design of your 2 GB USB drive. Paper might be dead to us, but this is pretty damn cool, even if it’s just used to look pretty.
We were just starting to believe that USB drive designers were finally starting to lay off the gaudiness. And then we see something like this. I swear, if it wasn’t my habit to wear sunglasses indoors at all times, I would have been blinded by this thing.
If you happen to be into layers and layers of crystals or wearing ridiculous gadgets around your neck, this USB Swan necklace thing (I hesitate to even call it a gadget, as to not taint the word) can be yours for $27.
Leonard Nimoy will be honored to discover that all of his promotion of living long and prospering has paid off. Forget the reams of fans and the flocks of trekkies. Spock can now find comfort in the fact that he has been immortalized as a USB flash drive which more closely resembles an Asian teen dressed in a Spock outfit.
Seriously, look at those eyes and tell me Spock doesn’t love kungfu fighting.
As per usual, once the personified drive is decapitated, the storage fun begins. Grab your own from Etsy for $35.
All of the fun of cigars, without the smell! This helpful step-by-step DIY allows you to create your very own USB Cigar Flash Drive. A perfect gift for expecting fathers and dudes who like smoking cigars after successfully fending off an alien invasion.
The drive glows orange like the hot embers of the finest stogies. When you delve into disk access, the glow gets even brighter, much like a cigar in the process of being inhaled.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has done something ballsy. They’ve created a USB drive designed to look like an endangered species. And how do you actually use the USB drive? By ripping the endangered species’s body in half. Apparently a penguin doesn’t “need” its upper torso.
I’m sure the WWF has nothing but the best intentions for penguins, but ripping the animal apart doesn’t send the best message. I understand, they’re trying to reach a certain demographic. The problem is that hungry seals are going to be as attracted to this gadget as geeks are. The penguin drive will be available in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB flavors.
Normally, when new USB drive hits the market, it’s not cause for concern in the slightest. But I have a feeling that this particular one-gigabyte drive will not only turn heads like that $300,000 watch you wish you owned, but will also encourage females to hop on your genitalia and ride you like a ferris wheel.
Now look at that box. What would you guess is inside? Take a guess.
If you are so ashamed of having a USB flash drive that you feel the need to hide it in a Chap Stick tube, maybe you shouldn’t have on in the first place. While this mod is certainly a good idea if you happen to be an undercover CIA agent and you need to get some confidential information, you might wind up accidentally throwing this away if you carry it around all the time.
Just think, now that you have your AA battery USB drive and your Chap Stick USB drive, there’s nothing in the world that can stop you now! Nothing other than the capacity limitations of flash memory. –Nik Gomez
USB ChapStick [via CrunchGear]
Converting videos it different formats sucks, period. It takes too long, and there is a possibility that it won’t come out right. It is, very simply put, a very unenjoyable process. If you are one of the people who likes to download their video and then immediately convert it to a different file format for whatever reason you have, the Instant Video To-Go will ease many of the pains of video conversion. While it only works for converting to H.264, it does speed up the time it takes by an amazing amount. You might be asking why is speeds up the process. It is able to make it go faster because it can act as a type of “dedicated hardware piece” meant for the sole purpose of converting your video. This is something that your desktop or laptop cannot do because there are so many other processes running in the background and the conversion is usually run just by software. The Instant Video To-Go mimics the way that the professional broadcast networks convert their videos as quickly as they do. It is about the size of you average USB flash drive and converts to H.264, which you can playback on your iPod (something many people want to do). So now for its actual speed. For a normal 100min 20GB video file, it would take about 5 hours to convert it to H.264 (.m4v) using just your software. With the Instant Video To-Go, this process is cut to only 20mins! With such an amazing difference in speed, how can you pass this $65 piece of technology up?! — Nik Gomez
Instant Video To-Go [via OhGizmo!]
