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Porcelain USB drive for the dinner table

It definitely bucks the latest macho trends.

Mike Yamamoto Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Mike Yamamoto is an executive editor for CNET News.com.
Mike Yamamoto
Charles & Marie

It's always nice to see some individualism expressed in technology, especially when it's bucking a trend. A lot of macho USB storage keys, for example, tout their toughness in surviving everything from nuclear blasts to being run over by a car. But this 1GB porcelain USB drive takes the opposite approach as it "turns the traditional notion of a memory stick on its head and offers a hand crafted, beautifully glazed piece of technology in a non-tech body," according to Charles & Marie. It even comes in its own dainty little hand-knit pouch, as Uber-Review notes.

We're not terribly fond of porcelain, much less knitted cases, but the idea of its LED "glowing through the china" is intriguing. And it would be a perfect match with this robot fish we've been meaning to get.