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USB Cufflinks: Fashion Geek or Geeky Fashion?

Sometimes a dumb gimmick can actually be a great idea, too. Let’s test that theory. When I say to you “USB flash-drive cufflinks,” what do your think of? Novelty nonsense? That guy in your office who insists on wearing the Donald Duck tie? If you’re like me, you are cringing right now, imagining some dime-store monstrosity.

But a look at the photo shows a pair of pretty classy cufflinks, two squared-off metal boxes which would look very handsome on the sleeves of your Italian hand-tailored shirt. The extra utility is only revealed when you pop off the lids and the tiny 2GB drives within are revealed, giving 4GB total.

There’s something a little bit James Bond about these, and the usefulness of always having some storage to hand (literally) is clear. But then, given the fact that none of my cufflinks are pairs anymore but a collection of lonely singles, it might not be quite so secure. If you set them up as a mirrored RAID-array, though, you could lose an arm and still keep all your data, making you a kind of a cross between James Bond and "Q".

Originally fromWired