Women love ice cream but eating such food add to their hips; less so. This USB ice cream then, is the perfect solution  for those ladies who seem to be forever on a diet. This non-edible dessert comes presented in an attractive themed gift box with an attachable strap. 

Thiis little gadget combined  a USB Drive on one end and a  lighter on the other end.  Through the mechanism on the lighter’s side edges the USB connector out of the casing.

 Halong Bay is a legendary world just waiting to be explored. Bhaya Cruises combine oriental style with contemporary luxury. Together these are the perfect recipe for an enchanting and relaxing experience. In 1917, Emperor Khai Dinh plied the waters of the Bay in a wonderful wooden junk. Almost a century later you too can embark on a voyage through time  in a vessel recreated from the original designs and with impeccable service fit for an Emperor.

Cruise USB drive

Custom USB Drives for Cruise on the Halong Bay

There are so many of these drives now flooded on internet and there are many people still buying them being ripped off and scammed. Fake memory drives have cracked hardware that will display fake/oversize capacity when you connect it to your computer. It may appear you can load this capacity on the drive, but as soon as you go over its real capacity the files will become corrupted and read strange file names.

The free program H2testw has proved its worth in detecting flash drives which have been programmed to miss-report capacity.  The interface is in German but has the option to run in English. It is free and standalone. Nothing is installed into the operating system. You should use H2testw for testing counterfeit USB Flash Drives for the following reasons:

1. Easy to Use
2. Tested to work on 1.1 and 2.0 USB Ports
3. Tested to work to analyze drives advertised as 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and yes …64 GB capacity.
4. Reports what the operating system sees size to be.
5. Will write 1 GB files up to the reported size – requiring no work on your part except patience if it is a large drive and a slow computer
6. Will read all the files it wrote and verify them
7. Will report that the test ran without problems if all is well
8. Will produce a detailed report showing the true capacity, how much data has been lost/corrupted and whether there are aliased memory addresses if problems are found.
9. Output results can easily be copied and pasted into notepad to be saved as a text file.
10. The program is free

The readme.txt file provides:

* Explanation of the program and what it does for general computer users
* Information on how to interpret the results
* Technical information for those who have a deeper understanding of data storage and file writing and for the skeptics out there.

It has been invaluable to those who now test all flash they buy to avoid potential data loss arising from use of a falsely programmed device.

Save the downloaded zip file to your desktop an run the exe file in the folder to install the program on your computer. To test your flash launch the program, select your language (German or English) and select the target drive.

The program will fill your device with numbers and letters in 1000Mb lots and then try to read it back . If your device works as claimed it will tell you that the test ran without problems and you can delete the test files. If not you will get a detailed report.

Sample Output For A Fake 64 GB Drive

The media is likely to be defective.
3.8 GByte OK (8084847 sectors)
58.6 GByte DATA LOST (122921617 sectors)
Details:710.5 KByte overwritten (1421 sectors)
7.6 MByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 15630 sectors)
58.6 byte corrupted (122904566 sectors)
710.5 KByte aliased memory (1421 sectors)
First error at offset: 0×000000003cef8470
Expected: 0xeb7ac43a237c5170
Found: 0xeb7a843a237c5170
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 9.24 MByte/s
Reading speed: 10.8 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

This is 4GB USB flash drive not a 64GB USB flash drive. It is of poor quality. As 4GB drive it should be about 3.9 GB not 3.8 GB formatted. This indicates in low level formatting a lot of bad sectors had to be locked out. Since this stick only has 4 GB real capacity, what will happen if you put 64 GB of data on it? In many cases the firmware hack is so complete that Windows will copy into oblivion without any error. Of course it only can read back 4 GB of that data, when you read back the rest it’s all random garbage or filled with zeros. You will not notice when you copy the data on to the stick, you will not notice it when you copy the data off the stick. The only place you will notice is when you try to actually use the data. At that point the data will be corrupt and unusable. You might then even attribute that to something else and not the stick.

• The fake will deceive you by displaying the ‘false/oversize’ capacity when you connect it to your PC, however they will NOT be able to store the data to the stated capacity.
• So you MUST perform data test by writing a BIG (1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB) file to the usb drive, then READ back the same file from the usb drive to another location on your PC to compare. The READ back process is the only proven way to uncover its ‘REAL’ capacity.
• A genuine USB flash drive will complete data transfer of a single 1GB file anywhere from 50 to 180 seconds writing to. Usually the writing time is twice as long as the reading time.
• The fake will take an excessively long time (1 to 7 hours) only ‘pretending‘ writing but the data was not actually being written. Hence when you try to read it back, it will claim data as being CORRUPT. Many have reported that many strange files/folders eg. 00000.000 will appear and you cannot delete them.
• The fake flash drives are usually shipped out from ASIA especially from China, Hong Kong, Korea or Singapore, and they are also listed on Australian, UK, USA and European’s eBay.
• The counterfeit model cannot be located or matched with any genuine models on the manufacturer’s web site.
• Counterfeit ‘USB Flash Drive / Compact Flash / Secure Digital / Memory Stick‘ are flooding the internet market at very  price to make you think is an absolute BARGAIN.

       Panasonic Corporation ,formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. , is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan. Its main business is in electronics manufacturing.

       Cute Electronic LTD had designed and produce the CUSTOM USB DRIVE for Panasonic’s lasted Shaver as their giveaway.

        The sketch by hand by designer

        Sketch by computer

Find  these funny cartoon USB drives as below,

These USB drives are based on famous Japanese cartoon characters, ‘Ultraman’ and ‘Rei Ayanami’.

Each one comes with 2GB -8GB of storage, and they are being sold as limited editions, with only 3,000 copies of each going on sale.

There is no word on pricing or availability, but I suspect they will only be available in Japan.

The children very eager to have these cool toys.

Buffalo is releasing a USB flash drive in the shape of Arsène Lupin III in mid June as the latest addition to their SWATTEARS USB flash drive series. Featuring anime characters with the action figure part made by BANDAI, the SWATTEARS series has been quite popular since their launch in June, 2008, selling out many models.

Read on for details and pics.

The new Lupin III flash drive comes with tiny gun (supposedly his Walther P38). Head, arms and legs are posable.

Wearing green jacket, based on the first anime series. Action Figure USB drive.

Comes with red armchair with an extension cord. Product number RUF2-SWT2G-L3F, 2GB, suggested retail price 3,480 yen (36.75 USD).

Buffalo also released a red-jacket-clad Lupin model last year that swiftly sold out.

©Monkey Punch / TMS, NTV

SWATTEARS’ current lineup includes Ranka Lee and Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier, Rei Ayanami and Kaworu Nagisa from Petit Eva: Evangelion@School and Konata Izumi from Lucky Star.

Ranka Lee.

RUF2-SWT4G-RL: 4GB, retailed around 3,980 yen (about 42 dollars).

Sheryl Nome.

RUF2-SWT4G-SN: 4GB, 3,980 yen.

© Big West / Macross F Production Committee / MBS

Rei Ayanami.

RUF2-SWT4G-AR: 4GB, 3,980 yen.

Kaworu Nagisa.

RUF2-SWT4G-NK: 4GB, 3,980 yen.

©GAINAX, Khara

Konata Izumi.

RUF2-SWT4G-IK: 4GB, 3,980 yen.

© Yoshimizu Kagami / Lucky☆Paradise

Each of the SWATTEARS USB flash drives appear on your desktop with cute icon.

      With NAND flash prices reaching the sweet spot, solid-state drives (SSDs) are expected to see adoption expand substantially in the second half of 2012, according to a Kingston Technology executive. Average pricing for 1GB of NAND flash memory will likely fall to US$1 – a threshold that will trigger a meaningful replacement of hard disk drives (HDDs) by SSDs – sometime in the third quarter of 2012, said Nathan Su, flash memory sales director of Kingston APAC. Behind the lower per GB costs will be major flash chipmakers’ transition to 19nm and more advanced manufacturing processes, Su indicated. The high cost of flash has been a major issue slowing down the adoption of SSDs.

      In addition, the current tight supplies of HDDs caused by Thailand’s floods will likely spur demand for SSDs in particular for low-capacity, industrial-grade products, Su said. Su noted that Kingston has enhanced its SSD product line to target the entry-level and medium-range to high-end segments.

      Since the beginning of 2011, the company has moved its business focus to NAND flash-related products in view of the shrinking DRAM module business, Su added. Kingston has also developed a new product line of portable external drives, used as accessories for consumer technology products including smartphones and tablets, Su said. Taking its new Wi-Drive product as an example, the series offers pocket-sized portable storage and easy file sharing for Apple devices including iPods, iPhones and iPads, Su added.

If there’s one more thing a true Apple fan should have on his or her desk besides an iMac and an iPhone dock, then it’s this wonderfully crafted Steve Jobs action figure USB Drive.

Jobs’ trademark black turtleneck, blue jeans, and (removable) rimless glasses are all there, of course, but the tiny details like the faithfully replicated New Balance 991 sneakers Steve wears make this one a real winner.