SanDisk Cruzer Patter USB Drive Sports a Beautiful Floral Pattern

I think I can make a necklace, a belt, and a bracelet from all the USB flash drives I have around my home. But I guess I can add another one to the collection with the SanDisk Cruzer Patter USB Flash Drive. With a lovely floral pattern design on a black casing, the Cruzer Patter is one of the most stylish looking drives out there. It even sports a clip for you to clip on to your shirt or bag. It will also run U3 programs for those of you who care.  It’s available at Circuit City and and just released you can get the flash drive for only $11.99 with a 2GB  capacity, which is a really great price for such a good looking gadget.

Pico-C 24 Karat 8GB USB Key Doubles as Necklace

Remember the GoldKey USB Security Token we reported about a while ago? Well now there is another karat-topped US key, the PICO-C, which is a 24 Karat gold plated USB drive by Super Talent. In other words, just more gadgets ridiculousness created in the form of luxury items. Pico-C has 8GB storage, weighs less than 6grams, it’s also water resistent, and it comes with a matching gold chain so you can wear it as a necklace… but the best part is the price. For only $40 you wear this around your neck and you’re ready to roll with your crew.

SKATEDRIVE, Santa Cruz Inspired Skate Board USB Flash Drives

Have you ever wanted to try skateboarding and were told by your mother “No way, you will break your neck!” Well mom has no need to worry anymore because you can safely skate around with your fingers with the SKATEDRIVE USB Flash Drive. Action Sport Drives has teamed up with leading skate board companies to bring you an authentic looking Santa Cruz skate board shrunken into a portable USB flash drive. There is the “Signature” Santa Cruz design, Santa Cruz “Checker”, and Santa Cruz “Screaming Hand”. Each one is authentic in design all the way down to the trucks and wheels of a real skate board. All three USB Skate boards have LED indicators showing the drive is in use and they also come with a neck strap. Each drive comes preloaded with music, movies, screensavers and wallpapers, though the site doesn’t specify what kind of content exactly. And if skateboarding isn’t your thing, there are also SurfDrives and SnowDrives - but that is nothing we haven’t seen before. Information on pricing and actual capacity is limited for now, but for any Tony Hawk fan or Skate board enthusiast stay tuned to the website for updates.

Clickfree Backups Your Data Instantly Without Any Installation

When it comes to backing up, there are two general reasons that people don’t do it. 1. They are lazy. 2. They can’t figure out how to do it. Clickfree is here to address those two excuses. Clickfree’s backup devices don’t require any software to install - there is no brain work involved. Just plug in the hard drive or pop in the one of their backup DVDs and let Clickfree do all the work for you. You can choose from a 120GB hard drive for $149.95 that will automatically back up all the data on your computer,  or you can get one of their DVD backup packs for either photos, music or office. The office DVD backs up Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Acrobat, Outlook, Photoshop, etc files. The packs come with 3, 5 or 10 DVDs starting at $9.99 for a 3 pack.

New Gadget Round-Up from the Digital Experience

It was a jungle out there, well actually a safari, at the Digital Experience tonight. As we head into summer, this season’s Digital Experience decided to tease us with some summer treats as well as a safari themed event down to the reptiles, and no it was not a new Ugobe robot. Below are a few sneak peeks at upcoming gadgets that especially caught our eye. We got to check out the impressive upcoming Blackberry Bold, Maxtor’s new Central Axis Network Storage hard drive, some fashionista headsets from Plantronics and an assortment of other goodies.

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Pen DVR Camera Inconspicuously Records Video

In the world of espionage, you never know when you’ll end up requiring the ability to record video in stealth. Hiding a camera in a household object like an alarm clock or lettuce-head is effective, but just not easily portable. So if you’re looking for a portable spying product that no one would suspect, check out the Pen Camera DVR. Not only does the Pen Camera DVR works as a USB drive with 2 or 4GB of memory, it also records video and audio, with the video res at 352×288 - just enough to catch someone in the act. Oh, and it works like a regular old ballpoint pen too. The DVR Pen Recorder retails for $199 for the 2GB version and $249 for the 4GB version which can record up to 30 hours of video with audio.

Jo Marz Embellished USB Flash Drives

What has to be the most beautiful USB flash drives I have seen in a long time, the embellished 1GB USB Flash Drive is designed by Jo Marz and retails for $98 at Neiman Marcus or you can buy it directly from the designer’s site JMtreasures. The flash drive is adorned with hand decorated brass and stainless steel. There are three styles to choose from and each one is unique and different. Even if you never use it as a USB Flash Drive it sure is a pretty decoration to hang around.

GoldKey USB Security Token Encrypts Your Documents and Survives Natural Disasters

If you work with highly sensitive documents constantly, then the GoldKey USB Security Token may be the type of gadget you need to keep those documents from landing in the wrong hands. You can encrypt any document with the Gold Key. Insert it into a USB port and then with a few clicks of the mouse it will be encrypted and will not be accessible without the key inserted again into your desktop or laptop. It truly locks/unlocks your data. Besides putting Fort Knox around highly sensitive documents, the key itself is extremely durable and can handle any element: water, fire and even getting run over by a car. You have to check out the videos which are funny and insulting to Asians all at the same time… 1 GoldKey will cost you $132 but if you need more than one, it will cost you upwards of $799…and it better damn well be made out of gold for that price!

Surfs Up with Burtons Snowboard USB Flash Drive

Though we can barely balance ourselves on a skateboard for 5 seconds, forget about an actual surf or snowboard, we love Burtons clothing and accessories. Luckily they are now producing some boards that are safe enough for geeks like us to operate. ACP-EP Memory and Burton have teamed up to produce some stylin 2GB snowboards. There is the colorful Feelgood drive for $19.99, an unnamed but pretty black/ white / red version for $29.99 and the slick black Vapor for $29.99. Personally, we like the cheaper Feelgood one. We’re suckers for colorful GADGETS.

Verbatim’s Affordable Firewire/USB Portable Hard Drive

Ultraportable hard drives are all the rage nowadays, their getting cheaper and cheaper and better looking as companies compete to come out with slicker designs and cool colors. A USB hard drive does the job, but if we recommend getting one with Firewire as well because firewire reads and writes much faster and more reliably than USB. Unfortunately most ultraportable hard drives with Firewire cost substantially more than their single USB counterparts. That is why we were oh, so delighted to come across Verbatim’s affordable USB/ Firewire portable hard drives. The pretty slick hard drives are totally USB or Firewire powered, sport 5,400RPM hard drives inside and come in capacities as big as 500GB and 320GB. The 320GB version is even on available for as little as $129, making it comparably priced to a ultraportable USB harddrive.

SanDisk Mobile Ultra Giveaway

Whether it’s the BlackJack II or the Sansa Fuze, most popular smartphones and many MP3 players nowadays come with MicroSD slots. SanDisk’s Mobile Ultra sports a microSD card with an adorably tiny reader that doubles as a USB drive. And when we say tiny, we mean it - the reader itself is not much bigger than its USB connector. The mobile ultra comes with a 2 year warranty for the reader and 10 year warranty for the card. We have two 2GB Mobile Ultras to give away. To enter, email us with the subject line: I Want a Tiny SanDisk Mobile Ultra. Two winners will be chosen. [Read more]

Maxtor’s New Colorful Portable USB Powered Hard Drives

Seagate has some new small hard drives set to come to the market that sport shock protection and cool colors in a portable form factor. There will be 3 different version of the Maxtor Portable USB Powered Hard Drive available: Topaz 250GB: $129.99, Cobalt 320B: $179.99, and Graphite 320GB: $179.99. The reasonably priced drives are both Mac & PC compatible, totally USB powered, they include EMI protection, have SATA hard drives spinning inside and come with a 5 year warranty. The upcoming Maxtor Basics will be available at Best Buy starting June 22nd.

New Software for Maxtor Shared Storage II Lets You Access Files Over the Net

We reviewed the Shared Storage II networked hard drive a while back and now Maxtor has just released new firmware and software for the device. The new Central Axis software allows you to access and share files on your Shared Storage II hard drive over the internet. We got to see a preview of the software back at CES 2008. The software is still in beta but it’s a must have to unleash all the potential of your Shared Storage II, if you have one. And it’s thankfully available for both PC and Mac.

Ridata EZ Junior USB Key, is it a Boy or is it a Girl

It doesn’t do anything that spectacular but we thought what the heck, these are kinda cute. Ridata has the EZ Junior 2GB Flash Drives with a boy on one side and girl on the other. Don’t you love when USB keys are not sexist! For $17.00, it’s pretty cheap for a decent amount of storage and would give a chuckle to anyone who maybe having gender issues that day.

Flash Padlock USB Key Locks Up Your Data with a Pin

There are many USB keys out there that come with encryption software for keeping your prized files away from preying eyes, but if you want to be super paranoid you can argue that software encryption isn’t enough. Instead, we present the ultimate in USB key protection - the Flash Padlock, which features hardware encryption. The Flash Padlock resembles the lock I had on my old Ford Taurus when I used to key in my pin number in order to unlock the doors to my car. If you happen to be carrying around documents on a flash drive that are so top secret then I guess this Flash drive is for you. Available in 2GB and 4GB capacities, you can create 1 pin number or multiple ones and then register them on-line for easy retrieval if you forget it what the pin is. At Buy.com you can get the Flash Padlock for a an affordable $27.82.

Walletex Slim USB MediCard is Set to Carry Around All Your Medical Records

I’m all about privacy. I don’t like to share personal info with anyone. I shred and have identity protection on all of my credit cards. But what if all your medical information was being carried around on a business card sized USB flash drive. The Wallet MediCard is an ultra slim USB flash card that will fit not only medical documentation in the card, you can even fill out personal health records on the outside of it as well. So if you lose this card not only are you losing valuable information about your medical records you’re bound to loose alot more. Is something like this the wave of the future? For obvious privacy concerns, the whole concept is making us nervous.

MemoryKick 1.8 Inch Colorful Pocketdrives

We’ve never heard of MemoryKick before, but they have a cute selection of super portable drives. Their 1.8″ drives are packed in to aluminum casing and weigh just 3.3 ounces and connect to your computer via  USB 2.0. They are available in 20, 30, 40 or 60GB sizes in the colors gray, blue, red, gold or silver.  The 60GB version retails for $109.99, the 20 for $64, the 30 for $74 and the 40 for $84.99.

SanDisk 1GB Cruzer Gator in Pink for Just $10

One of SanDisk’s more stylish USB keys that we spotted at CES has finally showed up in a store near you. Radio Shack has the 1GB Sandisk Cruzer Gator in Pink for only $9.95. Granted that is just 1gb, but still a good deal for a “fashion” usb key. The regular price is $34.99 and it is currently on sale till 2/16/08. So hurray up and get this cute USB key in time for your Valentine.

Volkswagen Sound and Light USB Keys Go VROOM

The Volkswagen USB Sound and Light Memory Stick is another set of adorable USB keys you don’t need but you’ll want anyway. These adorable little automobiles double as USB keys and are available as a Volkswagen green or red camper van or a blue or pink Volkswagen car. The product description doesn’t go in to details, but we gather from the product picture that these little cars have headlights that flash and that they possibly make a neat “vroom” sound. Unfortunately there is a catch to these cute little fellas. [Read more]

Pexagon USB Gift Set for Her

Who says that all women will be impressed with chocolates for Valentines Day. Why not give her a bouquet of flowers and a box of USB Drives for that techie girlfriend orwife of yours. Pexagon has a special USB theme collections including a 3 Pack of 1GB or 2gB USB Thumb drives for her. Each drive has its own engraved design on its casing. There is a purple Butterflies design, a lime green Paisley design, and a third hot pink USB key covered with the words “My Backup” on it. Currently the theme packs is on-sale for $44.99 for a pack of 3 1GB keys or $59.99 for a pack of three 2GB keys. P [Read more]

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