If you’re equally concerned about aesthetics and storing data on a USB pen drive, Kingston has got a perfect product for you. The DataTraveler (DT) Mini Fun has leaped to a new generation and comes in different color combinations. The drive’s rugged silicon housing protects the drive from exterior vulnerabilities and features a key loop to attach the drive to a bag.

The drives come in three different capacities – 2GB, 4GB and 8GB with different color combinations like light/dark green (2GB), light/dark blue (4GB) and black/red (8GB).

ADATA has announced a new flash drive for the Indian market that supports both eSATA and USB 2.0 interface. This makes N909 faster than most of USB 2.0-only supporting flash drives in the market.

It comes in capacities to up to 64GB and with the help of eSATA, it can read and write data to up to 90MB/s and 50MB/s respectively as compared to USB 2.0’s 33MB/s (read) and 25MB/s (write) speed.

Moreover, ADATA flash drive users can download software like UFDtoGO and Norton Internet Security 2010 (trial).

No word on the price.

If you’re looking for a high capacity and very pocketable storage solution, Kingston has released a mammoth 256GB flash drive. The DataTraveler 310 USB flash drive takes the helm of previous year’s DataTraveler 300 and gains some speed as well as bundles Password Traveler software. The software allows a user to keep their data secure in a password-protected Privacy zone.

The flash drive can read data at speeds of up to 25MB/s and write at 12MB/s and just in case you’re wondering, 256GB can store up to 51,000 images, 365 CDs or 54 DVDs.

However, portability and huge storage comes at a price. Kingston will retail the flash drive for a whopping Rs. 48,380.

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Most flash drive manufacturers are now moving to USB 3.0 drives due to its superfast transfers but Corsair is pushing the USB 2.0 interface, literally to whole new level. The Flash Voyager GTR series are equipped with quad-channel architecture that helps to achieve read speed to up to 34MB/s whereas it clocks a write speed of up to 28MB/s.

To give a quick heads up, Corsair conducted a real world test where its 128GB flash drive took just under 7 minutes to copy 37k documents as compared to a competitor’s 38 minutes on the same capacity drive.

Corsair hasn’t revealed the price but it will with a 10-year limited warranty in capacities of 32GB, 64GB and 128GB.

Flurry of USB 3.0 products are expected in 2010 and joining the expanding list of the new speedy USB interface is A-DATA’s N002 Combo Flash Drive. Scheduled to hit the market in January, N002 supports USB 3.0 and SATA II for non-USB 3.0 supported PCs. A-DATA claims the N002 can deliver sequential read/write speeds up to 200/170 MB per second, 10 times faster than the prevailing USB 2.0.

It will come in capacities ranging from 64GB to 256GB and will bundle UFDtoGo software to enhance security. There’s no word on the price yet.

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This new offering from Kingston miniscules my 120GB 2.5-inch USB HDD bought about a year back. Check out the DataTraveler 300 that takes the crown for holding up to 256GB of data on a teensy thumb drive. Just in case, you’re too lazy to equate, the pocketable flash drive will be able to store 10 Blu-ray discs (about 25GB each), 54 DVDs or 365 CDs. Storage is not the only thing on offer here. The drive gives password protection, a read/write speed of 20/10 MB/s, Windows Vista ReadyBoost compatible and durable enough to work in extreme conditions.

But, as it’s already known, technology doesn’t come cheap and DataTraveler 300 is no exception. Kingston is making these special drives only on make to order basis and will cost a whopping $963.

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Fujitsu has developed a USB flash drive that automatically erases data or prevents someone from copying data from the flash drive. Fujitsu is currently testing these drives and claims that they can significantly reduce data theft.

The flash drive houses a processor and a battery and the drive can be programmed by the user to fit his needs. For instance, he can set the drive to erase the data automatically after 24 hours or the USB drive can delete the data as soon as its inserted in an unauthorized machine and make the drive unusable. Another thing that this drive supports is the file redirect technology. With file redirection activated, the data is safely stored on the drive and a user selected server and an unauthorized PC cannot e-mail, print or copy the data from the device.

Shall we term it as the epitome of geekiness? Jerry Jalava, a software developer from Finland amputate one of his fingers because of a motorbike accident and had to replace the lost finger with a prosthetic one. However, the difference between a regular prosthetic finger replacement and his is the integrated 2GB USB flash drive. The finger can be detached from its body and plugged in the USB drive just by peeling back the nail.

The future version of his prosthetic USB finger will involve a larger storage capacity and an embedded RFID tag.

You can check out more pictures on his Flickr page.

[Via computerworld]

Sony has come up with MicroVault Click USB flash drives that are pre-loaded with an audio or a movie content. A user has the freedom to select from three different options – Thriller: 25th Anniversary Edition music album or movies like The Da Vinci Code and Men in Black.

Thriller 25 will be loaded on a 2GB MicroVault drive while the movies will be pre-loaded onto a 4GB flash drive. The pre-loaded Micro Vault Click drives will be available soon at retail prices of $19.99 for the “Thriller” title and $29.99 each for “The Da Vinci Code” and “Men in Black” titles.

The MicroVault Click drives come in storage capacities ranging from 1GB to 16GB.

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Hi-tech encryption software integrated in flash drives can go kaput sometimes. Keeping that in mind, Thanko goes conventional and forks out a thumb drive with a padlock. Three numbers are easy to remember than a password. Isn’t it?

There no additional details as such but we expect it come with 1GB storage retailing at 780 Yen that makes it around $7.

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[Via Akihabaranews]