Unusual USB Flash Drives Collection

This post features a collection of creative and unusual USB flash drives.

LEGO Brick USB Flash Drive

Available in five colors, these keys are 100% compatible with the real Lego bricks, enabling you to tweak your Lego creations. [link]

iPod USB Flash Drive

USB iPod Memory Stick features amazingly soft and tactile silicon outer casing and a carrying loop so you can make sure it doesn’t get lost. The USB plug is hidden under the ‘face’ of the iPod for added protection. [link]

Bullet USB Flash Drive

The bullet drive is a show stopper. It’s chrome finish and stylish shape makes it a sturdy attention getter. [link]

Food USB Flash Drives

Brando’s USB flash drives include chicken, hot wings, a slab of pork, a pizza slice, a burger, a watermelon slice, a strawberry, cookies and biscuits. Best of all, these hold 4GB worth of junk and cost only $28. [link]

Pink Eraser USB Flash Drive

Want to make a flash drive that nobody in a modern office would even think about taking? Hide it in a pink eraser and it’s secure in this digital age. [link]

Penguin USB Flash Drive

Cute 2GB USB flash drive that looks like a Penguin. [link]

Bottle Opener USB Flash Drive

The USB stick CO is a mobile data storage device in a solid, brushed aluminium housing. It is special because it incorporates an extra bottle opener function combining practical data storage with a thirst-quenching aid that is always to hand. [link]

Steampunk USB Flash Drive

Intricate retro sci-fi USB flash drive created by a Russian modder. [link]

Teddy Bear USB Flash Drive

Cute Teddy Bear USB flash drive with removable head. [link]

Folderix USB Flash Drive

Folderix flash drive is designed to look like a folder icon, which proves that there are no boundaries to one’s postmodernist aspirations. [link]

Pico USB Flash Drive

Barely bigger than the tip of your pinky, and less than 4mm thick, it’s positively small. The polished chrome finish is certainly shiny, but at 8 gigabytes, it’s redonkulously teeny! [link]

MIXA USB Flash Drive

MIXA is a 1GB USB flash drive that looks like a regular audio cassette tape. You can design your own unique sleeve using your own images, or select one of pre-made designs. MIXA comes with a plastic case, a set of stickers, a USB extension cable and a beautiful box. [link]

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Unique Photography by Denis Darzacq

Denis Darzacq is a French photographer who works with street dancers and performers to creates the illusion of people flying or falling through space.

Denis Darzacq Video Documentary

Documentary film shows French photographer Denis Darzacq working with street dancers in the suburbs of Paris.

For more photographs by Denis Darzacq [click here]

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Crazy Hot Air Balloons

Hot air balloons are the oldest successful human carrying flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers' invention in Annonay, France in 1783. The first flight carrying humans was made on November 21, 1783, in Paris by Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes.

A hot air balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing hot air. Suspended beneath is the gondola or wicker basket (in certain, long distance or high altitude balloons, a capsule) which carries a source of heat capable of producing a sufficient temperature gradient between the air inside the envelope and the surrounding air mass to give enough lift to keep the balloon and its passengers aloft. Unlike gas balloons, the envelope does not have to be sealed at the bottom since the rising hot air only exerts pressure on the upper hemisphere of the balloon to provide lift. In today's sports balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the mouth of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from fire resistant material such as Nomex.

Today, hot air balloons are used primarily for recreation. There are some 7,500 hot air balloons operating in the United States.

Hot air balloons are able to fly to extremely high altitudes. On November 26, 2005, Vijaypat Singhania set the world altitude record for highest hot air balloon flight, reaching 21,290 meters (69,852 feet). He took off from downtown Bombay, India and landed 240 km (150 miles) south in Panchale.

The furthest that a hot air balloon has ever been flown is 7,671.91 km. On January 15, 1991, the Virgin Pacific Flyer balloon completed the longest flight in a hot air balloon when Per Lindstrand (born in Sweden, but resident in the UK) and Richard Branson of the UK flew from Japan to Northern Canada.

With a volume of 74,000 m³ (2,600,000 ft³), the balloon envelope was the largest ever built for a hot air craft. Designed to fly in the trans-oceanic jetstreams the Pacific Flyer recorded the highest ground speed for a manned balloon at 245 mph (394 km/h).

The longest duration hot air balloon flight ever made is 50 hours and 38 minutes made by Michio Kanda and Hirosuke Tekezawa of Japan on January 2, 1997.

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