Cardboard flashdrives will change the landscape of portable media!  Art Lebedev has designed a disposable USB drive made from cardboard. Flashkus sticks come in sets of four, divided by perforations. 

This is the first post of a new series titled ‘Freaky Friday, IT Oddities.’  Every Friday, we will feature a dose of IT weirdness.  Here goes our first find…

I have no idea what Maxell had in mind when they came up with these AromaDrives, a line of scented flash memory sticks.  Not quite Glade Plugins for your computer, these puppies are good old fashioned USB drives covered in scented plastic.  They even have a little hole in the packaging so you can Scratch n’ Sniff. 

For your inner spy, there’s a video pen!

Sometimes while I venture around Manhattan between meetings, I occasion Brookstone to play with their latest gadgets.  I often joke that if reincarnation is true, then in my previous life I must have been a spy; so it should come as no surpise that on my recent visit to Brookstone, I found myself instanly in love with this awesome Video Spy Pen.