Curioblog: featuring unusual gifts, gadgets and curiosities |
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Put a unique pen drive in your life and transport your files in style |
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Mimobot Usb flash drive, from Friends With You |
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Their huge popularity has taken us to give them multiple names: pen drive, memory stick, flash drive, flash memory, key-ring, lighter, prick, stick, bug… or simply, USB. Their small size allows to build them in any everyday object such us key-rings, pens, lighters, watches and even Swiss knives. Big enterprises have adopted them as company gifs or merchandising. And as it happened with portable phones, more and more types started to appear as their used spread and they became popular.
The truth is that this gadget, resilient to scratches and dust, has displaced CDs, floppy disks and alike for data carrying, because of its memory capacity –up to 8 GB!–, for its lightness, its low cost and its lasting durability, as they can keep data for 10 years and are one-million-times rewritable.
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Sophisticated, funny, multifunctional, childish... which one suits you best? |
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Illustrators and artists designing fashionable pen drives |
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For old times nostalgia, pranksters, Japanese food lovers… |
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Within our household, the days of the old sticky "Post-It" are numbered. Save paper and brand your message on a slice of toast |
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The GPS or the Thermomix seem quite modern, but they are not that contemporary. Their first clear ancestors date back to the first decades of the 20th Century |
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We don’t know if such a device is retro or futuristic. The idea is fine, but, weren’t CDs doomed to disappear? |
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Table or slide? Window or reading hideout? Why not both? That’s the proposal of the Kids Republic bookstore in Beijing |
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A kid’s play such as rolling down a hill has turned into a extreme sport. It’s called Zorbing and originated in New Zealand |
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Being always aware how full your USB memory stick is, becomes quite useful. A Russian designer is proposing an usb flash drive which fattens as data is stored |
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