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Experience reliable, portable storage with a SanDisk Cruzer USB Flash Drive. Why leave your photos, videos and music at home when they’ll fit in your pocket? Trust the minds behind flash memory to make it easy to store, transfer and share your digital files wherever you go.

With up to 32GB of storage, these drives are built to handle the real world’s bumps and turns-so you can count on them to help you share plenty of photos, videos and other digital favorites wherever you go.

The ExtremKey All-Terrain Flash Drive from LaCie might not protect your favorite daredevil during smoke-jumping,  cliff-diving, or motocrossing exploits. But with its ability to withstand  temperatures from –120 degrees to 392 degrees Fahrenheit, water depths of up to 333 feet, and the trauma of being run over by a 10-ton truck, the ExtremKey can at least give you the comfort of knowing that your data will survive the most insane, er, extreme, pursuits.

You can easily view used and free capacity on your flash drives. So, this concept, called USB Memory Stick #6, is a USB drive that will tell us what’s on the memory stick well before we put it into our computer.

The USB drive is made of glass and the whole idea revolves around colored lights that are housed inside the body of the drive. As you put items on your USB stick, the lights would activate to tell you what’s on the drive: the more you put on your drive, the more the lights would populate through the glass body.

Active Media Products has unveiled a new flash drive that is called the MotKey. The design of the flash drive makes it look like a normal key that would be on your key ring, assuming you car used a USB port to start. The case of the little flash drive is rubberized to prevent scratches and protect the drive from drops.

It is compatible with Mac and PC systems with USB 2.0 or 1.1 ports and the MotKey will work on Linux machines as well. It is available in 4GB or 8GB capacities on Amazon for under $25. The device measures 2.9″ x 1.2″ x 0.5″ and includes a key ring and a cord.

This all-metal model F1 racecar is the perfect gift for any serious race fan, or simply anyone who wants a nice table decoration with an incredible 16GB of flash memory! This is more than enough memory to store your entire music collection, hours and hours of your favorite movies, or even your entire photo collection!

Kingston has now announced that it is adding faster and higher capacity SSDs to its line. The SSDNow V+ line all include Windows 7 Trim support and the SSDs are now available in up to 512GB capacity. The new line has sequential read speed of 230MB/sec and sequential write of 180MB/sec.

The drives are all 2.5-inch form factor units and use MLC NAND flash. Available capacities in the line are now 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. The downside is the price of the larger capacity SSD kits. The 64GB bundle sells for $283, the 128GB sells for $528, the 256GB bundle sells for $1008, and the 512GB bundle is $1985. The drive alone in all capacities will save you about $20.

Sprint in a quiet move today added a new hybrid 3G/4G modem for its WiMAX network. The U301 is a direct if minor update to the U300 and comes in a smaller black shell. Its most notable addition is Mac OS X support, which gives both Leopard and Snow Leopard users access to the high-speed mobile Internet service.

Like its predecessor, the new USB modem has a swiveling port to fit into tight spots and can connect at a typical 3-6Mbps in Sprint’s WiMAX coverage areas or 600Kbps to 1.4Mbps on EVDO Revision A-based 3G networks. Built-in GPS gives an attached computer geolocation features. Read the rest of this entry »

Buffalo have confirmed that their first SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external storage solution, the DriveStation HD-HXU3, is now available making it the first USB 3.0 external hard drive to commence shipping.

Offering data transfer speeds of up to 625MB/s (5 Gbits per second), the USB 3.0 Buffalo DriveStation HD-HXU3 is billed as being ideally suited for those looking for an external storage solution for the backup of high-resolution graphics, digital audio/video, large multimedia files and photos and, aside from coming in 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB capacities, Read the rest of this entry »

Offering USB 2.0 connectivity, the ThinkGeek USB Grenade Flash Drive youts 8GB of capacity, comes with a flip off connector cover and measures in at around 32 x 32 x 57mm.

Imation has announced a brand new external hard drive which also happens to be the first wireless USB external hard drive in the world so far. We’re surrounded by more and more wireless devices so a wireless hard drive was probably bound to arrive. And it’s Imation the first company that came up with such a device, the Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive. Read the rest of this entry »