Show your school spirit with a flash drive from Staples

When I saw this in Tech Republic’s newsletter, I couldn’t resist passing it on. Office-supply chain Staples and a manufacturer I’ve never heard of called PNY (apparently known for manufacturing video cards) have teamed up to create flash drives displaying the colors and emblems of 100 different US colleges and universities. Aimed at both current students and sentimental alums, these key drives are white with the logo on the cap and the college name on the side.

I notice that the University of Michigan, where I spent five years in gradual school, is among the participating colleges, but not Brown University where I did my undergrad. And Stanford has a PNY key drive, but not Cal.

You can order the whole range from Staples.com at $39.99 apiece, but expect 7-14 days’ delivery time rather than the usual overnight service.

Just for the record, though—key drives are great for transporting data, but they don’t make good backup devices when it comes to longer-term storage.