Jun 19 2008
Unique USBee Drive Tries To Sting The Competition
The market is really saturated with USB flash drives. This can’t come as a shock, because I am sure within 5 minutes down any electronics aisle, or a flip of a page in the weekly sales flyer, you have seen at least three different typres of USB drives on sale that all do the same thing. You really can’t do a lot of different things with the way they look, or how they are shaped, so it boils down to brand recognition and data storage space, right? Oh yeah, and the lower prices don’t hurt, either. Well, it looks like that is about to change.
The USBee flash drive is definitely as unique as you can get. First of all, it is designed to resemble a bumble bee. Its neat, flexible design is made of a silicon and aluminum to make it as damage proof as possible. A good selling point, especially with the newer drives boasting their near-indestructability. However, the jury is still out on leaving them in your pants pocket in the washing machine. Also, the black stripes are part of a cooling system, keeping your drive from overheating. To top it all off, the removable cap snaps on the back when in use. How great is that? I have lost numberous caps for these drives over the years by placing the cap somewhere and forgetting about it.
Now that I have you all excited, the downer is that these haven’t even gone into production yet. I know, they always make us wait for the good stuff. My guess is they want to hype up the product as much as possible and then feel comfortable about jacking up the price. But maybe I am wrong. I just think that this may be the start of some unusual looking, yet quality, flash drives.
