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The Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever

Posted by Zonk on from the mmmm-dimsum dept.

Ant writes "Fosfor Gadgets lists the top weirdest USB drives ever, including photographs. Sushi and shrimps look yummy." From the article: "We start off with the least weird USB drive, and it's the iDuck from the Japanese company Solid Alliance. They are available in six different colors and the version on the picture even lights up when it's plugged in. It's cute so it's not that hard to understand why it's popular, right?"

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  1. twisted? by caffeinemessiah · · Score: 5, Funny
    at first, i thought "oh what's the big deal? you can stick a little flash drive ANYWHERE these days"

    but then ...

    Rip the head of the cute Barbie doll, and plug it into your PC.

    can you say TWISTED???

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    1. Re:twisted? by Jeng · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh C'mon, like who hasn't ripped off Barbies head?

      Though I think they have it backwards, the head should be the drive, pluggin the body in is just absurd.

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    2. Re:twisted? by Romancer · · Score: 3, Funny

      I literally laughed out loud. Not many things online have been able to actually do that, maybe a smile or a chuckle. But to actually scare the cat across the room, that was hilarious. scrolling down and seeing the Barbie with a male usb port for a head. damn. that's just too much.

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    3. Re:twisted? by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

      can you say TWISTED???

      My analyst told me
      That I was right out of my head
      The way he described it
      He said I'd be better dead than live
      I didn't listen to his jive
      I knew all along
      That he was all wrong
      And I knew that he thought
      I was crazy but I'm not
      Oh no

      KFG

    4. Re:twisted? by xquark · · Score: 2, Funny

      Can you imagine where the USB plug will be for the Ken doll? ;)

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    5. Re:twisted? by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shouldn't the memory be stored in the head?

      Of a Barbie!?

      KFG

    6. Re:twisted? by Mr2cents · · Score: 3, Funny

      Rip the head of the cute Barbie doll, and plug it into your PC.

      It has excellent Debian Sid support, I've heard.

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    7. Re:twisted? by Mehtuus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Speaking of body, what about these?

      USB Dildo ?
      USB Dildo with Bluetooth...

      Theres more than one... lol

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    8. Re:twisted? by tehshen · · Score: 2, Funny

      Metadata journaling is hard. Let's go shopping!

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  2. Before you post on how vapid this story is... by Quirk · · Score: 5, Funny
    remember it's friday night and you're reading /.

    Anything, even the weirdest USB drives ever, could only improve on the sad, shallow life you now lead.

    except for me, uhmmm... I'm doing research... drawing statistical relevance from the /. polls.

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  3. If this is the weirdest they've got, then by Council · · Score: 4, Funny

    I never thought I'd find myself saying this, but I just don't think the internet is weird enough.

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  4. USB Elmo knows your name... by Chris+Bradshaw · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm suprised the "My Personalized Elmo (Special Spyware Edition)" hasn't made the list... Check this out.

    http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000100066100/

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    1. Re:USB Elmo knows your name... by bmgoau · · Score: 2, Funny

      With toys like that becomeing avaliable, even if slightly unrefined, its only a matter of time before we have toys for children alot like the Bear from the movie A.I.

      Who said artificially intelligent, nuclear powered, tonka-tough toys bend on makeing sre your children eat their breakfast and do their homework?

  5. What would be stranger by mattydont · · Score: 2, Funny

    if you could actualy eat the usb drive (the shrimp not the thumb) ones.

    1. Re:What would be stranger by xstonedogx · · Score: 4, Funny

      if you could actualy eat the usb drive (the shrimp not the thumb) ones.

      You're responding to The Amazing Fishboy, you insensitive clod!

    2. Re:What would be stranger by zippthorne · · Score: 3, Funny

      You want to build robots that can eat people?

      I certainly can't envision something like THAT coming around to bite us in the ass.

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  6. Easy to lose flash-Presto by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Obviously whoever wrote this forgot about TransFlash cards in cell phones such as my i870. Try keeping a spare one of those out of the vacuum cleaner."

    Disappeared in a flash, did it?

  7. Forget the thumb drive! by Khyber · · Score: 4, Funny

    They need a middle-finger USB drive. At least that way I know what my computer's trying to tell me everytime windows crashes!

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  8. Weird? Weird! by paul248 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that guy definitely needs a thesaurus.

  9. I'm still waiting by AutopsyReport · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still waiting for a USB penis so I can finally shut everyone up by showing that my e-penis is as big as I've been claiming for years.

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  10. Before you post on how shallow this story is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Anything, even the weirdest USB drives ever, could only improve on the sad, shallow life you now lead."

    Of course my life is shallow. I'm the lifeguard for the kiddie pool.

  11. This is a read-only one but... by teletype · · Score: 3, Funny

    I learned of the existence of this in a SkyMall catalog on a particularly awful Delta flight today:

    USB Bible

    Pray tell, (ok, pun not intended), what is the point of this thing? Is this for when you really need that Jesus fix, and are at a computer with no net access? I don't get it...

  12. Wouldn't wanna... by bredk · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wouldn't wanna see the Ken USB-drive...

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  13. Re:Easy to lose flash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Obviously whoever wrote this forgot about TransFlash cards in cell phones such as my i870.

    Why do I think this is a clever goatse.cx-esque troll? Imagine the Google results that will return.

    Cheers. :)

  14. Re:iDisk by neurojab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has anyone out there ever used a usb drive this small, and was it effective?

    It's convenient, but the bits are so small.

    I concur. I used it to store a Word document (a research paper). When I read it off the disk, the average font size had gone from 12 to 6. That's some serious bit shrinkage. The shrinkage seems to occur in all the critical places.

    I used one to store my bank account information, and found that my money was convered from dollars to cents.

    However, that doesn't compare to the horrors that will befall the user that attempts to use this drive to store their pr0n collection, and views the result.

  15. Weird? Not weird enough! by Kusunose · · Score: 2, Funny

    See these wearable USB memories!