Looking for an expandable USB drive? this maybe it and looks cool too.  Designed by Vicky Wie, this nice and colorful looking USB drive concept will allows you to link with each other to increase its size storage capacity.

Im not sure what would happen if you disconnect them and randomly put them back again? Another nice thing that you could do with this gadget is to create your own fashionable USB memory bracelet or ring maybe.

Online security is getting overwhelming and frustrating sometimes. For the last few months I’ve signed up to a couple of forums and blogs to scour information on about everything and it come to a point of having problem remembering what user id and password I’ve used. Aside from that we moved all our bills and credit card payments and banking online so it is frustrating when you forgot you login ID and password. Although you can memorize as many as you can combinations, some online services, specially financial only allows you up to 3 tries lock up you ID if you keep trying with invalid credentials.

One possible solution to this is to use a secure ID storage to track and retrieve those critical piece of information. ID Vault is a USB-based device that includes a SmartCard microcontroller to store sensitive data in encrypted format. It has PIN-based logon access that keeps a collection of secure bookmarks, integrated with your web browser and websites, and sends credentials directly to the site secure logon page. This gadget is good to avoid keyloggers and shoulder/side watchers for the price of $50.

A few weeks ago I watched as show about the evolution of disk storage (I believe it was on PBS) and Im amazed how these technologies evolved and its impact on computing technologies. Through the years the program showcase how technology moved from a room full of capacitors and gigantic magnetic plates to a quarter size storage medium.

Yesterday, Cnet reported about this new high-capacity flash drive from SanDisk which the company believe would later on replaced the harddisk of mobile device.

Unlike traditional hard drives, flash memory drives do not contain moving parts. As a result, flash devices are less prone to breaking down—flash cards can survive drops from great heights—and consume less energy. SanDisk’s flash drive can increase battery life by about 10 percent, said Doreet Oren, director of product marketing for SanDisk.“

I totally agree. Although this new storage device will be more expensive than your current 2.5” hard drive is I think understandable but later on as more and more company adopt the technology we would expect the cost will also go down. But for now don’t drop those hard drive.. yet!

This is a cool one. If you’re like me, sometimes Im having my own amnesia moment and one of this moment is loosing either cap or lid is something that frustrates me.

But in the case of a USB flash drive lid, a Taiwan based company name IPQ came up with this simple and elegant USB flash drive design they call it Cool Drive U350.

It is like a pen where the USB connector head will automatically retract into the main body offering the flash you pull it out and push the tab to bring back the USB head.

Now you don’t have to worry of loosing your USB flash drive lid again!

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