Given just how easy it has become for manufacturers from all around the world to insert flash memory chips in just about everything they might think of (from hamburgers to pieces of wood), it's no wonder that we're faced with an avalanche of weird-looking flash drives, taking every shape and form factor imaginable. And one of the strangest products of this type released on the market lately is the RB_TC Series from Super Talent, which comes in the shape of...terracotta warriors.

As some of you might know (well, pretty much all of you who've seen what many call a disaster of a movie, "The Mummy 3 – Tomb of the Dragon Emperor"), the terracotta army, which included more than 6,000 armed soldiers, has accompanied Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of China, beyond death. And in order to honor this legacy (and cash in on the notoriety of the aforementioned movie), the designers over at Super Talent have decided to create a flash drive that has the exact appearance of a terracotta warrior, but measuring just 67 mm x 24 mm x 20 mm and housing within a very precious flash module.

Although the external design is, quite obviously, the main selling point of the device from Super Talent, the truth of the matter is that its internal components aren't too shabby, either. Thus, the drive supports both USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 interfaces, granting users transfer speeds of up to 480 Mbps, and is available in several storage variants, ranging between 1 and 8 GB.

As expected, it has also been equipped with a LED indicator that glows whenever the device is busy (or powered), and doesn't require any drivers for most of the operating systems out there (except perhaps for the Windows 98SE, which requires a driver that can be very easily downloaded from the company's website).

Unfortunately, for the time being, there's no relevant pricing and availability information for this thing, and it remains to be seen whether or not it will actually enjoy some sort of success outside of China.


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