Tag archive: thumb drives

Makers of the legendary Swiss Army Knife have joined silicon with steel more than once in the long history of the multitool, but the latest one employs old-school security features that even the most sophisticated USB thumb drives lack. Victorinox’s new Secure includes all the usual Swiss Army essentials, including a blade, nail file and scissors, plus a mini flashlight and flip-out USB thumb drive with a biometric fingerprint reader. Besides… Read More

If you've one of the technological elite who has already put down some money for a system with USB 3.0 ports…memory and storage maker Super Talent has a thumb drive they'd like you to consider. The Super Talent USB 3.0 SuperCrypt drive delivers all the performance of a USB 3.0 connection with AES hardware encryption so your data is always secure. And with capacities up to 256 GB, they might take a while to fill up even over a USB 3.0… Read More

  What do you do when you’ve just been caught stealing $35,000, the evidence is on a flash drive, and you’re in police custody? Swallow it, of course. That’s the approach ATM scammer Florin Necula took when he found himself in that predicament last January. After Secret Service agents tracked him down and took him into custody, Necula “grabbed Subject Flash Drive 2, which had been on his person at the time of his arrest, and swallowed,”… Read More

Infinitec made a few waves at CES this year with its Infinite USB Memory (IUM) Drive, which leverages a computer's existing Wi-Fi wireless networking and hard drive storage capacity, rather than relying on built-in storage. The idea is that the IUM Drive enables users to share their content and files to other computers or other people with complete control and security—and unlike a conventional USB thumb drive, the IUM drive never contains… Read More

Kanguru's USB 2.0 thumb drives can hook to a keychain and fit in a pocket and come in sizes ranging from 32MB to 4GB. The company also claims up to 8GB of data can be stored on the 4GB model with Kanguru's compression technology. With prices around $1600 and higher for the 4GB version, the drive will be out of most people's price range. Visit Kanguru's site for more information.