It has been revealed that Apple is causing another Flash Memory shortage after purchasing huge quantities from the top tier makers. This is making Taiwan’s memory module makers to diversify their NAND flash supplies to minimise procurement risks.
Keeping your data secure on your flash drive is always a worry and if you feel that 256 bit hardware encryption might not be enough. You can always add a combination lock to the end of a USB drive. I don’t think we’ll keep out the most determined of data thieves and still looks funky.
Verbatim’s new Tuff-Clip Flash Drive is constructed from a ABS plastic or Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene if you want to get technical. ABS plastic is well known for its hard wearing and shock absorbent properties and has been used to create golf club heads, protective headgear and a wide range of automotive body parts.
Here’s another high-tech watch creation from Tokyo Flash. The funky LED colour scheme can be changed to suit the user’s mood (white, orange, blue or multicoloured) To read the time the hours 1-12 are displayed in the left column, from the bottom to the top, minutes from the bottom right, each lit LED representing a single minute. The time can be read more quickly if you look at the numbers on the right, each row of lit LEDs is equal to five minutes. The date can be read in a similar way.
This 16 GB portable flash drive from Leyio is equipped with a UWB radio module and allows you to securely share your files with other Leyio users. Using speeds of up to 10Mbps photos, videos and other multimedia files can be transferred easily.
Check out this tiny USB flash drive by DiskGO which is available in 1GB to 16GB capacities. Each drive is supplied with Dmailer backup software installed on the drive making it an ideal eternal backup solution. You can create encrypted profiles and set redundant file backups which will even archive past versions if you require.
