I’m sure you all still remember the floppy disk right…that old storage device from the 80’s that always had slightly less available storage space then you needed.  Well despite most estimates of it having been permanently retired, the floppy disk has recently made a triumphant return after receiving a slight upgrade.  Thomas O’Connor of Detroit took the infamous piece of square plastic and recycled it into a USB Drive so you could store more than the traditional 1.44mb.  Nice!!

via Core77

While keeping up with my office desk series I realized that I should really have started a series for USB flash drives a long time ago. I have posted about several weird and tacky flash drives in the past, but I wind up skipping most of them to avoid having every post be about thumb drives. So instead I will just do one post every month or so and include my findings for that month. Enjoy.

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