USB drives and GPS flowers

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Source: Engadget The Iron Drive is a USB-compatible flash drive that is able to withstand "...high temperature, shock, vibration, caustic agents, submersion, EMI, and nuclear stresses". In other words, when they remove this drive from what is left of your body, you can rest assured that your data is safe, even if you're not.

Source: Engadget Dandella is a GPS receiver units that can be synched to a "home" location. The flower end glows when pointed toward the home location and changes colour and brightness in response to it proximity and direction, making it easy to find your way home. The units can also apparently be synched to point toward each other, allowing two people to find each other when they become separated in someplace like a busy park.

Source: Engadget More marketing gone bad. This USB drive contains a speaker that plays when it is plugged into your USB drive. The idea is that the drive can be given away by companies, but in order to use it you have to listen to a 10 to 20 second audio clip.

Source: Engadget More USB madness. The Scent Drive accepts fragrance oils, allow your lap top to emit noxious odours to counteract the noxious odours of your cube-mates.

Source: Gizmodo This is not a light sabre, but a combination safety wand (light stick) and megaphone. It can apparently project your voice up to 500 yards (or whatever the equivalent is in metres), so use the Force, Luke.