Everything USB's Favorite Novelty Flash Drives

November 9th, 2009

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Everything USB's Favorite Novelty Flash Drives

We love flash drives, and we see a lot of them each day. We thought we'd take the time to round up a few of our favorites. There's a lot of things that can make a flash drive stand out. Sometimes there's a novel design, a movie tie-in or just plain thinking outside of the box. Recently, we've seen more than a few drives that have scored style points. Putting the Flash in a flash drive can make that tag of the IT tech support geek into something a bit more fashionable. Here are our picks for best bang for the buck, best features, quality, usability or just plain unique flash drive of the past few months.

EOS 5D Mark II 4GB
The Canon EOS series of digital cameras has been one of the biggest drool inducing gadgets of the past decade. Producing the highest quality images and now even able to shoot fantastic movies as well, this is desired by even the most conservative of gadget fanatics. It's no doubt that the flash drive made in its image is on everyone's Christmas list. We believe you can still find one on eBay.

The Beatles Stereo USB Limited Edition
While not the best looking drive nor the cheapest, the Beatles flash drive released by Apple is still pretty hot. This 16GB drive is packed with every single Beatles album in 2 different digital flavors. With some room left over Apple choose to pack the drive with album art and mini-documentaries. Everything that every real fan would want in an all encompassing music collection of one of the most legendary bands of all time.

Porsche USB Fob
This slick drive (pun intended) resembles both the high end German sports car as well as the key fob of same. While the drive doesn't do anything particularly interesting, the price is right. This drive is being given away by Porsche to new owners of the Panamera Porsche car.

50th Anniversary Mini Cooper
The only thing slightly more infectious than the H1N1 swine flu is the pandemic infatuation with the adorable Mini Cooper. This tiny car has taken the world by storm and owners warm to any simulacra that allow them to have wear their obsession just one more place. This limited edition drive is available in just about every Mini/BMW dealership.

2008 Beijing Olympics Flash Drives
Lenovo created several sets of flash drives with the Olympic logo emblazoned across it intermixed with traditional Chinese patterns and images. These drives, which vary from silver medallions to torch replicas, were made in VERY limited numbers and pricing isn't available. Style and event tie-in make these drives true stand outs as digital media continues to work its way into more traditional 'offline' events.

LaCie PassKey, iamakey, itsakey
Making the USB key into something discrete and unobtrusive is something that LaCie managed beautifully in this game changing flash drive. Now you can integrate your digital life into your real life by sticking a couple GBs of data onto your keychain. You really should have all your medical records on you, important contacts and a copy or two of your resume, just in case. You never know when you will need access to that information and lugging around pieces of paper is so very '87.

Terminator T-600 Limited Edition
One of the most easily recognizable icons from this century has to be Arnold Schwarzeneggar's Terminator visage. This two-piece flash drive was released near the same time as the latest installation in the Terminator franchise and features glowing eyes.
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