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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 kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shouldn't the memory be stored in the head?

      Of a Barbie!?

      KFG

  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. 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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  4. More wierd stuff from SolidAlliance... by pario · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.)

  5. Re:iDisk by SaguratuS · · Score: 5, Informative
    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)

  6. 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.