The Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever

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?"

Comments

twisted?

[caffeinemessiah]

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???

Re:twisted?

[Jeng]

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.

Re:twisted?

[IvanTheViking]

Barbie USB

That was the link under the blurb. I don't think that is a photoshop...
Fear not the power of power tools (i.e. Dremel and drill press) and some 5 minute epoxy on making one.

Re:twisted?

[Romancer]

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.

Re:twisted?

[kfg]

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

Re:twisted?

[kfg]

Shouldn't the memory be stored in the head?

Of a Barbie!?

KFG

Re:twisted?

[Mr2cents]

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

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

Re:twisted?

[Mehtuus]

Speaking of body, what about these?

USB Dildo ?
USB Dildo with Bluetooth...

Theres more than one... lol

Before you post on how vapid this story is...

[Quirk]

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.

If this is the weirdest they've got, then

[Council]

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

Easy to lose flash

[IvanTheViking]

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.

USB Elmo knows your name...

[Chris Bradshaw]

I'm suprised the "My Personalized Elmo (Special Spyware Edition)" hasn't made the list... Check this out.

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

iDisk

[The Amazing Fish Boy]

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.

Re:iDisk

[SaguratuS]

To be specific, you can buy the IDisk here:
http://sa-store.com/shop.php?category_id=52&item01 _id=78

Price: 4,980 Yen ($41.50 USD)

Re:iDisk

[neurojab]

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.

More wierd stuff from SolidAlliance...

[pario]

sushi disks
http://sa-store.com/shop.php?category_id=25&item01 _id=37

more food
http://sa-store.com/shop.php?category_id=40&item01 _id=60

shinto amulet
http://sa-store.com/shop.php?category_id=50

USB camera (from the old Gegege-no-kitaro cartoon)
http://sa-store.com/shop.php?category_id=48

mice
http://sa-store.com/shop.php?category_id=46

These things make me very proud of being a Japanese, hehe...
(Yes, we do have a sense of humor, albeit a rather wacky one.)

Forget the thumb drive!

[Khyber]

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

Weird? Weird!

[paul248]

I think that guy definitely needs a thesaurus.

I'm still waiting

[AutopsyReport]

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.

Before you post on how shallow this story is...

[Anonymous Coward]

"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.

This is a read-only one but...

[teletype]

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...

Re:What would be stranger

[xstonedogx]

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

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

Re:What would be stranger

[zippthorne]

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.