# Recommend a cool memory stick. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031 "2009-01-06T03:14:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/1 "2009-01-06T03:14:29Z")
My key chain looks lame without a memory stick and my old one just broke apart. I don’t want another dull memory stick. I want to see if there is anything out there that’s more creative. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/2 "2009-01-06T03:30:47Z")
This is the closest I could find to the one I’ve got. Mine’s cream coloured. The coolest thing about it is its size. No thicker/wider than the gap in the usb slot! > **[Super Talent UFD 8GB ST Pico-C Gold : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Super-Talent-UFD-Pico-C-Gold/dp/B001CON9VK)** > > Manufacturer's Description A very high product from the company supertalent. Box Contains 1x UFD 8GB ST Pico-C Nickel Retail edit: Not _creative_ as such. But cool in the sense that understated miniaturized things are cool. Like Zoolander’s mobile phone. edit: A cooler one - because it’s chrome! > **[Super Talent 8GB Pico-C Chrome USB : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Super-Talent-8GB-Pico-C-Chrome/dp/B001BAW7P4)** > > Product Description A very high product from the company supertalent. Manufacturer's Description A very high product from the company supertalent. > P.when('A').execute(function(A) { > ... ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/3 "2009-01-06T03:38:56Z")
Here’s the actual one I have… [http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/kingmax-unveils-worlds-smallest-usb-flash-drive/](http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/kingmax-unveils-worlds-smallest-usb-flash-drive/) It fits better into a usb port than the first ones I linked to. A friend of mine has one of the first ones, and you have to kind of force it into the port. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/4 "2009-01-06T04:37:57Z")
[This one](http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/ab63/) is pretty cool. I don’t know how well it will go on a keychain, but I like it. I love [this one.](http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/b387/) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/5 "2009-01-06T04:48:31Z")
Depending on your definition of ‘cool’, there’s always the [humping dog USB drive](http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=rI-pct3zy18) One warning, though. It had one unexpectedly nasty effect when we plugged it into a Mac G5 (and possibly other desktops). The dog is shaped just right so that inserting his plug into the USB port presses his nose into the power button, shutting the computer down. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/6 "2009-01-06T05:31:29Z")
I have one where you put on dark glasses, twist the lower part, a bright flashy thing comes on, and … what was the question? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/7 "2009-01-06T06:38:27Z")
[SwissBit Swiss Army Knife](http://www.suitcase.com/detail/?ID=13187) Basically, a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife with a USB drive in it. The thumbdrive itself can be removed from the knife so you can keep your data with you when you travel on planes. They also sell replacement thumb drive thingies to go with it that go all the way up to 16GBs. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/8 "2009-01-06T06:46:52Z")
buy a mem stick rip off the outside carry it around naked. I have one that the cover broke on and have been using it for months, granted I dont carry it on a key chain. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/9 "2009-01-06T08:52:24Z")
[Pen / laser pointer / Memory Stick](http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10175) [Girly bracelet](http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.18607) [Sushi](http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.18177) [Ummmm…??](http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.17771) I have no concept of cool, obviously ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/10 "2009-01-06T09:10:58Z")
Hey, I teach computer courses at a college and you might as well buy the cheapest one possible at Walmart. My students: Forget them and leave them in the computer. Break them. Lose them. Get stolen. Forget them at home. Pull them out too soon and lose everything. Step on them. Accidentally delete everything on them. Put in back pocket, sat on it and broke it. Dropped in toilet (I didn’t even bother to ask how). BTW, one of my students found a deal on Amazon for 8 gig flash drives for $14.95 and bought a few and sold them to other students! Don’t know if you can still get them, but he found them a few weeks before Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-cool-memory-stick/480031/11 "2009-01-06T09:18:44Z")
Anything on a lanyard that you can remove by pressing two points on a plastic clip but is resilient enough to hold on to being tugged on by accident is perfect. And I don’t bother with all the larger memory sized ones… 2 gigs is great for me. I rarely find much that I need to carry on me that is larger than that and anything much smaller I can just e-mail myself… leaving space for stuff that is in the half to two gig size.