Seriously, the marketing guys over at LaCie seem like a fun bunch. Not that we’re surprised… they did call their other USB keys the CooKey and WhizKey after all. So now, we have this tiny new thing called the MosKeyto. Tiny is probably an understatement; the MosKeyto has got to be one of the smallest USB drives available right now—at least the smallest we’ve seen without featuring a flat, chip-on-board interface that really doesn’t work with that well with older USB ports.
LaCie just upped their Rikki Go portable hard drive’s capacity to 1TB, which is a good way to go if you’re looking for a portable drive that looks like it can handle a beating. The slim drive’s encased in aluminum to keep it tough and light, and features a very handy feature that seems to be on every portable device coming out right now: a built-in, swing-out USB cable that handily clips back on to the body for portability.
The smallest ever USB flash drive? We have no way to check SanDisk’s claim for the new Cruzer Blade, but we have to agree that this drive is really tiny. We couldn’t get a photo with a size reference, but if you see that hole on the corner, that’s where you loop a keychain through. So yeah, it’s tiny. About the size of a standard paper clip and about as light as a penny, the Cruzer Blade can easily be strapped to a keychain or mobile phone. Pretty handy if you ever needed a high-capacity mobile drive to go wherever your car keys go. Despite its size, it still packs a lot of data, with capacities ranging from the average 2GBs to a whopping 16GBs.
The Cruzer Blade is now available in the US and Canada, selling for $15 (2GB), $22 (4GB), $39 (8GB) and $78 (16GB).
Western Digital just cooked a way to spice up the mobile hard drive market by releasing five My Passport Essential drives with limited edition designs. Labeled as Boom Box, Black Hole, Cityscape, Fuschia Leaf and Wave, the patterns were created by design students at the California State University and slapped on top of WD’s shiny vanilla My Passport Essential drives.
While we’d all want our flash drives to come with enough protection to survive rough conditions, LaCie’s XtremeKey USB 2.0 flash drive takes it a step further. First off, it comes in a shell that’s built to take on conditions that are so extreme, you’d have to wonder why you’d need it in the first place.
