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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. Easy to lose flash by IvanTheViking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    4. idisk ..... How on earth should can you avoid not misplacing this really tiny (and very weird) product?

    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.

  2. iDisk by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're all pretty weird, except the iDisk. That product seems pretty useful to me. I might actually be tempted to keep that little thing on me, unlike clunker "keychains". I could put it in my wallet, for instance. Who cares about the likelihood of losing it? That doesn't make it "weird." When I buy it I know it's small.* Small is useful. It's not weird at all.

    * There's a joke in there, somewhere. Go nuts.**
    ** Yeah, I know.

    1. Re:iDisk by wdd1040 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      After looking into it a little more....

      I noticed that SolidAlliance makes almost all of these products, and they can be purchased from SA-Store.

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    2. Re:iDisk by Spoing · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Has anyone out there ever used a usb drive this small, and was it effective?

      Yep. I have 2 of these. They both fit in my wallet, much of the time just like a credit card w/o any special case.

      What makes no sense to me is why are the thick drives selling so well, when the slim ones can't get shelf space? There are no benifits to the thick ones over the thin ones -- and I consider the Iomega Micro Mini to be one of the thick ones.

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  3. iDisk + something nefarious? by AgentPhunk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The only drive on the list that I thought would have any value (other than, aww heck I'll say it, the "Wierd"-ness factor) was the iDisk, and only then for its small footprint. Specifically, I thought its size would allow it to be easily inserted into a system, left there for a few days to collect data, and then recovered without anyone being the wiser. You'd need some time of AutoRun / rootkit to install a keystroke logger onto the host system, or perhaps a version of DSniff to capture interesting passwords going across the NICs. I see PCs in big retail stores dedicated employee-use that would be perfect candidates for this type of hack.

    Now, of course I'm NOT advocating this at all. Heck I'm a Security/Network admin, but these are the types of backdoors that bite you in the ass if you don't properly plan for them. My guess is that systems like this that have some type of management access but are not physically secure should have USB disabled via default (i.e. Group Policy), but that would be in bigger shops with a large-ish IT staff and at least some sembelence of a security policy. My bet is that your doctor's office DOESN'T, and that with a device like this you'd be able to accomplish a suprising amount of data collection without anyone knowing. Anyone out there in the SecAdmin side (or even BlackHat side) like to chime in?