Most of the ones I’ve seen either have the lanyard hole on the non-cap end, or else use “swivel cap” design that annoys the hell out of me but makes the idea of having a detachable cap moot…
One of the mini-USB form factors, I imagine.
I bought a Geek Squad model this spring that came with a lanyard.
And I, the complete non-geek, not only couldn’t figure out what the lanyard was for (“why would someone want to hang this around their neck like a camp badge?”), but then I couldn’t get the frickin’ thumb drive open, and had to google it until I found an illustration that showed it open, to figure it out. It swivels.
Pretty amazing stuff, especially for oldies like me who remember when a computer took up a whole room. Now my wife’s iPod is about the size and shape of the sort of mint that upscale hotels leave on your pillow.
I am meant to use a lanyard at work for my security pass but I refuse, it is useless hung around your neck…unless you are a dwarf, and wear it on my belt on one of those auto rewind metal chain thingies.
However I was sitting, as a favour, on an interview panel recently and one of the guys being interviewed was wearing his workplace security pass on a Glock lanyard and I stupidly thought, “Cool.”
So obviously lanyards are the advertisement of the 21st century.
What the hell do you people actually need to be carrying around thumb drives for?
For moving files that are too large to conveniently attach to an email. For instance, the email system at my workplace will refuse any emails of > 50 meg, and these days, 1 gig is a smallish thumb drive. So if I want to show some photos to my friends at work, I put them on my thumb drive, bring them in, and put them in a shared file at work.
Screw that. I’ve killed enough cheap cameras to put me up with lanyards for life.
What I want to know is where did all the write-protect switches go? Easily half of the thumbdrives on the market had them a few years back, but now they seem to have gone extinct. 
I just want to know if astro is buying solid-gold drives or something that he’s paying $80 for one - I just bought a 4gb one for a gift, and spent a grand total of $24, including shipping.
I was really disappointed to discover that a “thumb drive” wasn’t a storage device implanted into one’s thumb.
I mean, really. How awesome would it be to walk up to someone’s computer and jab your thumb in its firewire port, and copy their iTunes library or something?
Plus, you wouldn’t need a lanyard anymore.
So I don’t have to save personal things on my work computer, and yet can still do personal things at work.
Also so I have all of the stuff I like to work on close at hand.
Vwey carefully. The SD card is just a little thicker than the flat tab that the USB contacts rest on, so there’s enough room for the contacts to nestle into a well in the part of the card that swings down to cover them. But it looks like the only thing covering them is the thickness of a label.
He specified “high capacity thumb drives” in the OP. 16GB USB flash drives usually run for at least $50, and 32GB drives are $100+.
Give it 5 years or so…
It would be cool at first - but the repeated surgeries required to upgrade the memory later on would be a real pain. :eek: 
A 640KB appendage ought to be enough for anyone.
There’s a newfangled invention out there that you may find helpful. It’s called string. It’s sold under a variety of names, including cord and twine; and it can be had in a variety of materials and colors. As you can see, it’s relatively inexpensive; so someone as deucedly clever as yourself ought to be able to make a lifetime’s supply of lanyards from just a couple dollar’s worth. Why, I bet someone with your mad skillz could probably even master a couple basic braids that would be artistic triumphs as well as utilitarian.
Or you could just shove your thumb drive up your ass while you aren’t using it.
I can relate, since I go through quite a few. I lose them, I break them, I leave them in the wash, I put them in the pocket of my swim trunks that double as shorts and forget to take them out before stepping into a jacuzzi (21st birthday party), I drop them, I break the little lanyard ring so I can’t put a lanyard on them and end up giving them away.
It would never occur to me to put a thumbdrive on a lanyard. I thought the loop was to attach it to your keychain.
Does getting a thumb drive wet actually damage it? I thought they were solid-state and therefore water-resistant (as long as they’re not plugged in).
Or am I on crack?