Backups are rarely funny, but I had to laugh when I saw this. Guaranteed to appeal to your teenager (or just your wackier side) the Big Tiki Drive from TikiMac features a lighted 6-foot "lava cable" and glowing red eyes, and comes in capacities of 256 MB to 4 GB. Prices range from $59 to $429. At nearly four inches in height, it's bigger and more obvious than most flash drives—but then, that's the … [Read more...]

Here's a new way to transfer files from your digital camera to your computer: SanDisk has just created a 1-GB flash memory card that folds open to reveal a USB connector. This saves carrying cables around or worrying about whether the computer you want to download your photos onto has the right kind of card reader. Since the flash drive is essentially unprotected, I wouldn't go getting one as a … [Read more...]

Two weeks ago one of my Faithful Readers sent me a New York Times article about USB flash drives as fashion accessories. A day or so later, a colleague showed me a paper sent by his son's school requiring all pupils to buy these drives in order to transport files between home and school. Flash memory has been around for a while, and Real Geeks were carrying keychain drives at least two years ago … [Read more...]