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Ali Spagnola Releases Shot Glass USB Cup and Stick Party Packs

You'd think an USB flash drive would have to be kept as far away from wet things as possible, but Ali Spagnola decided it was time for the opposite to hold true. Right to the point, in order to draw attention to the Power Hour Album, Spagnola came up with the Shot Glass USB party pack. Basically, two plastic...

27 January 2012
05:45 GMT

PNY Unleashes Clip Attache USB Flash Drives

People living in metropolitan areas may be interested in the Clip Attache USB flash drives, or so PNY believes. Available in capacities of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB, the drives have colorful metallic cases illustrated with one of four floral designs. Additionally, the back plate is designed like a hook, so that t...

26 January 2012
04:58 GMT

HP Releases v270w Egg-Shaped Flash Drive

PNY, HP's authorized dealer of flash products, has announced a new flash drive unit, one that tries to be fun and useful at the same time. To be fair, all consumer products attempt, to some extent, to be both fun and useful, but HP may have succeeded at the 'fun' part better than others. That is bec...

13 January 2012
02:51 GMT

Silicon Power Intros Three New Colors for LuxMini 720 Flash Drive

Silicon Power did not exactly launch a new flash drive unit, but it still decided to issue an announcement about new color options for the LuxMini 720 flash drive.The new models are colored Peach, Bronze and Deep Blue and are supposed to “represent consumers' individualities through the language of design....

29 December 2011
11:23 GMT

World's Smallest Flash Drive Is made by Deonet

There aren't many better ways for a product or company to stand out, in any segment of the industry, than by claiming one of those coveted “world's first/best/smallest/fastest/etc” titles. It so happens that Deonet just did something of the sort, specifically build the world's smallest US...

23 December 2011
09:19 GMT

Behold, USB-Connected Jewelry Exists, in Theory

We've seen various attempts at marrying jewelry and tech, so we weren't all that taken aback by this newest project, but some may still like to know about what may but will probably never be. Designers Yoo-Kyung Shin and Hanhsi Chen created a concept known as Empty Memory. Essentially, it is a jewelry col...

16 December 2011
10:44 GMT

Addonics Flash Drive Is Not a Flash Drive

Addonics put together a certain drive kit solution, really a family of such solutions, that is something along the lines of a memory card adapter, or an adapter for more than one memory card. The name of Addonics 2.5-inch Flash Drive has got to be among the most confusing of them all. After all, 'flash drive&...

15 December 2011
13:41 GMT

PQI Launches Small Flash Drive with Spring

PQI just did one of the oldest tricks in the book and revealed a product without actually saying how much it sold for. Granted, there is more than one product, fifteen of them in fact, since there are five capacities and three color options. More precisely, the i817L, as the flash drive is called, has 4 GB, 8 GB, 1...

14 December 2011
16:21 GMT

PNY Unveils Puny Flash Drives, HP v240b/v240g

PNY figured this was as good a time as any for a new flash drive to make its appearance, so it went ahead and launched the HP v240b/v240g. The HP v240b/v240g can be called a flash drive with multiple capacities just as easily as it can be dubbed a flash drive series with five (or really ten) members. Overall, the ...

14 December 2011
05:58 GMT

Kingston DataTraveler Micro Flash Drive Is Small and Blue

Kingston figured this was as good a time as any to launch one of those average, albeit very tiny, flash drives that strove to neither awe nor shock their prospective buyers. The DataTraveler Micro may be compact and colored a bright blue, and even has rubber on the outer body and a provision strap, but isn't al...

13 December 2011
15:41 GMT

PNY HP v112b Tiny USB Flash Drive Is Translucent

PNY decided it was time for a flash drive that stood apart from most of its cohort, at least from the perspective of design. PNY did not actually try to go outside the realms of expectations in terms of performance when it built the HP v112b. Instead, it decided to offer an item that can potentially captivate owne...

25 November 2011
10:51 GMT

Behold the Team Group F108-X’mas USB Limited Edition

Team Group just announced the F108-X’mas USB Limited Edition flash drive, a device that takes liberties with ornaments that also take liberties. This is the sort of device you can expect to see during the winter holidays, channeling the Christmas spirit. It weighs just 15 grams and has 4, 8 or 16 GB of stor...

24 November 2011
11:20 GMT

FXI Cotton Candy Is a Flash Drive-Sized Computer

FXI just made an item that, if one were to wax poetically, can be succinctly described as the flash drive that is not a flash drive. More precisely, though, outwardly, it has the appearance of a flash drive unit, whereas the interior is anything but. Granted, there is enough space for a micro-SDHC card reader, so ...

21 November 2011
04:06 GMT

Kingston Formally Intros DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 Flash Drive

Kingston's HyperX is a brand that is being applied to high-end products from all the categories it has approached, including RAM and solid state drives. Now, the company made its best flash drives, so it strapped that moniker on them too. The new flash drive units that Kingston created were previewed a while a...

18 November 2011
02:36 GMT

4-Channel Super Talent SuperSpeed Flash Drive Unleashed

Super talent ST4 is the name of the newest series of flash drive units, the one that, oddly enough, hasn't been detailed even though it is up for sale. One would think that a company would list all the assets of their product when they formally release it, but Super Talent didn't do so for some reason. W...

14 November 2011
04:36 GMT

Kingston Again Releases Flash Drives, DataTraveler 109

Kingston has exercised its ability to not be surprising at all by once again coming forth and launching a DataTraveler flash drive, or two of them in this case. Not that releasing a new device of this sort is a bad thing to do, but Kingston does tend to launch DataTraveler drives on a fairly regular basis, borderin...

27 October 2011
11:17 GMT

[VIDEO]Kingston urDrive Software Lets Flash Drives Act on Their Own

Kingston went into experimenter mode and created the urDrive application which does a variety of things to a flash drive, ultimately giving it a measure of autonomy and self-sufficiency. Instead of launching some new USB drive, Kingston developed a software program for those it already has. This urDrive applicati...

25 October 2011
03:25 GMT

New USB 3.0 Flash Drives from I-O Data Arrive in November

Coming to expand its already extensive collection of storage products, I-O Data has announced the TB-3NT Series of flash drive units featuring USB 3.0. I-O Data is no stranger to the storage industry, not a new arrival, so it always has to look for ways to differentiate its new items from the old. Then again, jus...

19 October 2011
03:17 GMT

ADATA Intros Three New USB Flash Drives

ADATA released flash drives before, so it is no wonder that it would do so again, especially if it has the chance to deliver something for all prospective customers. ADATA just made the official introduction of the C103, the S102 Pro and the N005 Pro flash drive units. In that order, they are intended for the low...

18 October 2011
08:52 GMT

ViaSat UK Releases Encrypted Portable USB Flash Drives

Flash drives don't often get most recognized for their security capabilities, but this is precisely what happened to the Eclypt Nano, which ViaSat UK just released.Portable storage devices are very handy things, but they aren't precisely very widespread among government agencies and some corporations.That ...

17 October 2011
10:48 GMT

US and UK Citizens Can Now Order the PhotoFast iFlashDrive

Flash drives with extra capabilities aren't all that new, but what Sanho Corporation created definitely isn't something people have a high chance of seeing anywhere else. The PhotoFast iFlashDrive, as the new invention form Sanho Corporation is called, would qualify as any other flash drive if it didn�...

12 October 2011
10:18 GMT

Santa Comes Early Thanks to PQI, Brings Stores of Empty Space

If anyone was looking for an early Christmas present, they might be able to get a chance to ask Santa for it early (or get Santa himself as one) now that PQI has released the U827 Santa Claus limited edition. In all seriousness though, PQI has broken the silence to introduce a new flash drive for the holiday seaso...

6 October 2011
10:52 GMT

Freecom DataBar Flash Drive Debuts in Europe

Coming to make a contribution on the already extensive flash drive market, Freecom has unveiled a new series of Universal Serial Bus sticks in Europe, one dubbed DataBar. There are many USB flash drives out there, each one focused on one aspect or another of the whole concept, or more of them. Freecom chose to...

5 October 2011
08:41 GMT

Kingston DataTraveler 6000 Meets Federal Information Processing Standard

Flash drives may be common nowadays, but only a few of them can truly boast of offering high security features, like Kingston's newest addition to the DataTraveler series. People who judge the DataTraveler flash drive series from Kingston to be a purely consumer-oriented, casual collection, based on sighting...

29 September 2011
04:30 GMT

Three New DataGuardian Flash Drives Being Prepped by Super Talent

Coming to offer its proverbial two cents, Super Talent has issued a concise press release in which it reveals the impending arrival of three new USB 3.0 flash drive units.Like so many other companies, Super Talent is making liberal use of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 technology.Of course, with theoretical maximum transfer...

24 September 2011
04:45 GMT

DataTraveler R400 USB Flash Drive Wears Kingston's Black and Red

Kingston didn't want to let the week go by without some sort of product launch, so it expanded the DataTraveler collection of flash drive units with a model aimed at so-called road warriors. After having said its piece on the memory card and SSD fronts, Kingston is now using the black and red color theme on ...

21 September 2011
10:54 GMT

Europe Gets Sony's Micro Vault Click P Flash Drives

Sony has made one of those moves when an already existing product line, in this case the Micro Vault Click P series of flash drives, reaches a larger number of stores than before. Sony has definitely been active lately, in pretty much every market segment it has a stake in, so it isn't too shocking to hear o...

20 September 2011
04:22 GMT

SanDisk's New Storage Line Debuts in Force

Those who though SanDisk didn't have anything up its sleeve besides the memory Vault were sorely mistaken, as that particular item is actually in the minority, according to the new press release. SanDisk released a new storage drive, one that is aimed at holding important photos and videos for 100 years (we co...

14 September 2011
10:58 GMT

Sharkoon Launches New USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Coming to contribute to the ever-present flow of high-speed external storage products, Sharkoon figured this was as good a time as any for its latest invention to show its worth. With the fame that USB 3.0 earned over the past year, it would have been strange if time kept passing without some other device based o...

13 September 2011
08:08 GMT

Corsair Drags Flash Drives into the Contemporary Age

With the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface so rapidly taking the place of USB 2.0, in a manner of speaking, Corsair figured it was time to pull three of its flash drive lines forward. To offer some context before the grand reveal, the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface standard is the newest iteration of the universal Seria...

9 September 2011
08:21 GMT

Apacer Designs New USB 3.0 Flash Drive

New random access memory is not all that Apacer has been working on, as the company issued another press release, one dealing with a NAND Flash product of the USB stick variety. Apacer is one of those companies that deals in more than one product type, albeit in fields that are fairly closely related. One of i...

9 September 2011
04:03 GMT

Kingmax Aims High With 64GB and 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drives

It was only a matter of time before Kignmax acted again on the storage market, and the time has finally come, the company choosing to update an already existing product collection.Some consumers might remember that, a few months ago, Kingmax released the ED-01 family of USB flash drives.With capacities of up to 32 G...

30 August 2011
04:08 GMT

Transcend Uses USB 2.0 and COB in JetFlash T3S Flash Drives

Transcend has once again built on its name as worldwide purveyor of various storage products, having put together a new series of flash drive units featuring a storage capacity of up to 16 GB.As always, storage devices are coming out all the time, so it is not all that shocking to hear that Transcend joined in on th...

9 August 2011
04:56 GMT

Super Talent ST2 USB 3.0 Flash Drive Delivered

The past week has seen a fair share of SSD launches, but flash drive releases were not as numerous, something that Super Talent is, apparently, determined to change with the ST2.There is much that can be done with just a small USB flash drive, especially those with support for the latest Universal Serial Bus Standar...

8 August 2011
05:04 GMT

Apple Giving Free Flash Drives to Customers Bitten by the Lion

Apple hit a snag recently when its OS X Lion ended up injuring the hard disk drives of some customers, so the Cupertino-based company decided to make amends by shipping some complimentary flash drive units over to those affected. Software updates are usually a cause to rejoice, but that is not the reaction that t...

5 August 2011
09:03 GMT

Silicon Power Completes Its Latest Flash Drive Unit

Silicon power has completed its latest flash drive unit, one that trades the high speeds of the latest USB interface in favor of a lower, albeit unspecified, price point, though it has other advantages, particularly physical ones.When it comes to the flash drive market, one could say that this segment is one that ha...

5 August 2011
03:23 GMT

PNY Hook Attache Flash Drive On Sale

The USB 3.0 interface may be making the news often, but the fact remains that USB 2.0 is still the dominating presence in this field, as shown by PNY, whose latest flash drive sticks to this legacy technology.The market for USB flash drives is one that has been growing at a very rapid pace and which is responsible f...

1 August 2011
09:10 GMT

Marvel M60 Flash Drives from Silicon Power Use SuperSpeed

Certain upcoming events may have prompted companies to release or at least unveil new and upcoming products, but it looks like Silicon Power did not need this incentive when it put together its new flash drives.Though its composition may be shifting somewhat, the storage market is just as active as ever, and this g...

1 August 2011
03:49 GMT

Green House Creates Metal-Clad, Sturdy Flash Drives

The already large collection of flash drives has now grown by one series, as Green House stepped forward and covered quite the sizable range of capacities, even some that might look out of place in this day and age.The NAND Flash storage technology, like any others, will, eventually, be surpassed by some new inventi...

13 July 2011
08:56 GMT

Verbatim Trumpets Store 'n' Stay Tiny USB Drive

Flash drives are known to be compact by definition, but Verbatim seems to have taken the aspect of miniaturization up to eleven when it designed the Store ‘n’ Stay model, despite managing to cram up to 16 GB of storage into it.When making an USB drive, companies have a choice between sticking to standard...

12 July 2011
04:15 GMT

64 GB Sony Micro Vault P USB Flash Drive Debuts

Being the sort of company that plays multiple game fields at once, Sony has, this once, turned its gaze towards the portable storage industry, having developed a new flash drive unit.All segments of the consumer IT market rely, to some extent, on things being new if consumers are to be goaded into maintaining a stab...

11 July 2011
04:38 GMT

Kingston Digital Completes Development of DataTraveler 108

Coming to add to the already extensive line of DataTraveler storage devices, the DataTraveler 108 from Kingston Digital is ready to start its journey towards the homes of consumer based in Europe.Makers of storage solutions never really do seem to forget about any facet of the industry for long, even those that also...

29 June 2011
11:05 GMT

Lexar Media Ships Encrypted Echo MX and ZX Flash Drives

When it comes to flash drives, they can perform a number of tasks and fill various roles, and it looks like Lexar went for secure backup when it built and sent out the Echo MX and ZX models.Lexar Media, being the maker of memory and NAND Flash storage devices that it is, was, naturally, not going to let too much pas...

14 June 2011
10:14 GMT

Super Talent USB 3.0 Drives Get Faster Than Ever

It appears that Computex did not go by without Super Talent revealing its newest flash device, although one can safely say that what it delivered doesn't exactly perfectly fit into the flash drive or SSD categories.At first glance, the USB 3.0 Express RC8 is a flash drive like any other, but there is a reason w...

3 June 2011
05:28 GMT

Sharkoon Flexi-Drive Gets Officially Launched

It appears that Sharkoon doesn't feel like letting this week go by without some sort of product announcement, so it isn't really that big a surprise to learn of a new flash drive series.The market for USB flash drives is one that grew quickly, exponentially even, during the first months of its life.Basical...

1 June 2011
07:38 GMT

Super Talent USB 3.0 Express DUO 2CH Flash Drives Up for Sale

With all the new storage units coming out, it is not longer any surprise to hear that a flash drive has finally made its way out of its maker's, in this case Super talent, labs.The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard is definitely assuming its role as new mainstream Universal Serial bus interface.Of course, given the f...

23 May 2011
11:07 GMT

Kingston Announces DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G2

Kingston has long been a maker of NAND Flash-based storage solutions, and it looks like this instance is one where its skills got put to use in the fashioning of a new series of USB 3.0 flash drives.Since every company on the IT market is always working on some new device or another, it was not surprising to learn t...

19 May 2011
11:02 GMT

Corsair Flash Voyager Ship, USB 3.0 Goes Out in Force

Corsair, being the maker of PSUs and memory solutions that it is, isn't about to stay silent for any extended period of time, in this case having started to sell a certain flash drive that was more or less overdue.Flash drives generally have the same function, which is to act as a compact, easy to carry means o...

19 May 2011
08:25 GMT

Team Group Presents New Flash Drives

Team Group, as always, is working on some new flash-based storage solution or another, so it is not so surprising to hear that it has brought forth some new flash drives, dubbed the SR1 and SR3 series, respectively.As always, new NAND Flash-based storage solutions are being developed all the time, especially now tha...

13 May 2011
10:15 GMT

PortaStor from Aleratec Is a Secure USB 2.0 Flash Drive

Secure USB flash drives may not be overly widespread on today's market, but they definitely pull their own weight in the hands of business users or anyone who wants to keep their files safe and sound, and Aleratec just delivered one such device.Secure flash drives can be either physically enduring, equipped wit...

13 May 2011
05:54 GMT


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