An ignoramus may ask ‘What is usb flash drive?! What is it? This some new kinda gimmick?‘

Can we get along without food, love, sex, money and this simple and useful gadget? Get lost! We can’t, or at least most of us.

Voice-over: Universal Serial Bus! A flash memory card that plugs into the computer’s USB port. Small enough to hook onto a keychain, it emulates a small disk drive and allows data to be easily transferred from one machine to another.

Compare this to your storage devices today. When this breakthrough drive was introduced by IBM in 1956, it was the first hard disk on the market. It held a whopping 5MB and weighed a ton.

Also known as a “flash drive,” “pen drive,” “keychain drive,” “key drive,” “USB key,” “USB stick” and “memory key,” numerous brand names have also been coined such as Lexar’s JumpDrive and Trek 2000 International’s ThumbDrive. Original 16mb disgo (on the right), flash drive that was the first invented in 1998 by Dov Moran, President and CEO of M-Systems Flash Pioneers (Israel). The following usb flash drives will take you about forever! The sequence means nothing, just for accounting.

1. The Altoids USB mod

How about a nice little metal Altoids box sticking out of your computer? This nice little USB drive is designed by Phillip Mates.

2. The USB mince pie

Check out this incredible detailed and accurate mince pie reproduction.

3. Storage in Your Pen

The Executive Pen Drive from Platinum Pen (www.platinumpen.com) keeps your data at your fingertips.

4. USB Victorinox Swissmemory

Penknife with a light emitting diode indicator.

5. Sushiusb

A USB flash drive in the shape of a piece of ikura (salmon roe) sushi.

6. The USB Puppet Bags

Iit’s only a masquerade costume for your boring typical, standard USB drive. Quite weird design?

7. Wooden memory sticks

I really like these hand-made wooden USB drives from the dutch company oooms. They are quite expensive, but they are all made out of real wooden pieces by hand.

8. The Tako Yaki

The Tako Yaki looks so yummy that it deserves an honorable mention.

9. The Bowling ball USB drive

How would you like to drag around on a full weigh (16 pounds / 7 kg) ten-pin bowling ball? This one is actually a fully functional USB drive that is capable of breaking your little laptop into pieces. It’s designed by Chris Spurgeon.

10. The Humping dog USB memory

Here’s a really weird little USB drive that has one thing that is really unique - it features moving parts. As soon as you plug the humping dog into your computer it starts humping it. Check out this video clip to see it in action!

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