They Can Put Data In What Now?

The year-in-retrospect blog posts, magazine stories and TV specials soon will be coming out in full force, and this gadget blog, our no. 1 blog post today, gets the prize so far for the best concept. It lists the oddest shapes that manufacturers have managed to stuff a little bit of flash memory into, including a human thumb, fish sticks, and even a Barbie doll — it's sick, you pop off her head and there's a USB port. It reminds of a time when we sat down in a Japanese restaurant, as we often do, and were served sushi. But when we tried to eat the sushi, it turned out to be a USB drive! Actually, that never happened. Still, the USB drives get a thumbs up from this blogger, whereas this one prefers the duckie. It's thumbs again for MandelBear, who writes: "Having a thumb sticking out of your computer is really, really weird, and it also gives a completely new meaning to the expression 'thumbdrive.' It looks very realistic, so you can probably use it in some pranks to your friends and colleagues." Probably. We'd rather find that in our sushi than a real thumb, anyway.

Posted by Philip Ewing at December 12, 2005 01:52 PM

Category: The Gadget Scene