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Instructables: Turn your borked NES into a flash drive

, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

fungus amungus posted this over on Instructables last week. It's a simple mod that allows you to turn a dead Nintendo Entertainment System into a neat little USB gadget. This is a simple little hack, but it's definitely worth checking out. It's a two part mod, he needed to modify both the NES and the cartridges to make the whole NES USB-Flash franken-marriage happen. But, broken NES's are a dime a dozen, and anyone can get Tetris on a hundred-dozen different platforms. Read The Full Story

Keyport USB drive gets more storage

, Feb 2nd 2011 Discuss [3]

Back in September of 2001, I mentioned that the cool Keyport key hiding slider thingy had gained a new feature with the ability to add a flash drive into one of the ports. If you forget exactly what this thing is, it's a small box that can hide up to six special keys inside that slide you when you need them. Read The Full Story

LaCie Galet by Christofle is just in time for a geeky Valentine’s

, Jan 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

We're not entirely sure why you'd want a hand-crafted, silver-plated 4GB memory key in the shape of a pebble, but perhaps Valentine's 2011 is geek-themed and nobody bothered faxing to let us know. LaCie's latest design partnership is with Christofle, the end result being the Galet USB Key. Read The Full Story

Active Media Products Silver Bullet USB drive won’t keep werewolves away

, Jan 18th 2011 Discuss [0]

Active Media Products outs a strange and novel flash drive every now and again and often the things look like bullets. The latest addition to the world of novelty flash drives from the company looks like a small .22 caliber bullet that's larger than life to fit the flash storage inside. The little bullet drive has a metal casing. Read The Full Story

Sharkoon Flexi-Drive Extreme Duo breaks cover

, Dec 20th 2010 Discuss [1]

Sharkoon has unveiled a new flash drive for geeks looking for all out speed for this storage devices. The new drive is called the Flexi-Drive Extreme Duo and it promises some very fast read and write speeds. The little flash drive has read and write performance of up to 130MB/s. Read The Full Story

Patriot Memory launches Supersonic USB 3.0 drive

, Dec 10th 2010 Discuss [1]

Patriot Memory has announced the launch of a new USB 3.0 drive that is crazy fast and uses a single chip inside. The new flash drive is called the Supersonic and works with the USB 3.0 interface on computers today. The flash drive has a quad channel architecture and is very small and light. Read The Full Story

Flix on Stix Skips the DVDs, Puts Movies on Your USB Flash Drive

, Dec 7th 2010 Discuss [2]

While going into a store and finding a DVD or Blu-ray to rent may not be what's popular anymore, other services like Netflix and Hulu are seeing quite the attraction, thanks to the fact that you don't actually have to go anywhere other than your computer, TV, or maybe as far as your mailbox to watch a movie. Then, there's services like Redbox that allow you to rent a movie for cheap, on a daily rate, and then return it back to the kiosk when your'e finished with it. But, Flix on Stix wants to take that idea, and make it a bit more useful for those who may not want an actual DVD to take home, or have to worry about returning it. Read The Full Story

SuperTalent unveils new USB 3.0 virtual PC with Creedo Personal

, Dec 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

We talk about Super Talent quite a bit with the company always seeming to be offering up a new flash drive or SSD for us to check out. Today that company is back with a cool new flash drive that works with USB 3.0 and offers a virtual PC inside as well. The new device combines Creedo Personal with the Super Talent USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache flash drive. Read The Full Story

Tiny USB Pico Mini flash drives lands from Super Talent

, Nov 11th 2010 Discuss [0]

It seems like every few weeks Super Talent tosses a new flash drive onto the market to lure geeks to part with some of their money for a new and fashionable storage device. The latest offering from Super Talent has surfaced called the USB Pico Mini and the new flash drives come in two styles. Read The Full Story

Active Media Products unveils .50 cal flash drive

, Nov 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

Some folks out there have to buy all the quirky flash drives that they run across. If you are one of these types of geeks we have a new one for you from Active Media Products. The new drive is called the Bullet USB Drive. Read The Full Story

Sesame Street flash drives look like characters and have videos installed

, Nov 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

I bet just about everyone knows Sesame Street and has watched the show as a kid, with their kids, or has at least watched the Katy Perry YouTube video where she runs around with Elmo that was banned from the kids show over too much boobage. If you have a kido that is a big fan of some of the Sesame Street characters a new line of flash drives that look like the characters is now shipping. Read The Full Story

Silicon Power offers limited edition flash drives

, Oct 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Silicon Power has unveiled a couple new flash drives that have a pretty finish that will appeal to users that want a drive that looks good and works well. The new flash drives are limited edition and include the Touch 852 Snow Flake and the Luxmini 323 Sparkle. Both of the drives are rather girly looking and if you have a geeky gal in your life, they might make a good gift with the holidays fast approaching. Read The Full Story
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