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Being tiny doesn’t mean lesser capacity, at least for Super Talent’s recently released Pico D USB swivel flash drive. Measuring only 1.4-inches, the Pico D has a capacity of up to 8GB and uses a chip-on-board (COB) technology. Aside from having this much storage capacity, the Pico D is also shock resistant, water resistant, so pretty much sure that your data will be well protected even if you subject the flash drive to adverse conditions. Downloading and uploading files from and to this flash drive is a breeze as well with its transfer speed that could go as fast as 200X(30MB/sec).

Other features of the Pico D USB flash drive include; USB 2.0 and 1.1 support, USB bus-powered, 10 years data retention, and plug & play installation feature. The Pico D USB flash drive is currently available and retailing for $40.

Product [Super Talent] Via [Far East Gizmos]

Iomega has recently unveiled their newest product, the ScreenPlay TV Link. Using the same technology as its previously released ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive, this device enables users to connect and play multimedia content from a USB hard drive on their standard or high-definition TVs using video outputs, HDMI, component and composite or SCART adapters. The ScreenPlay TV Link can also upscale video content to 720p and 1080i HD formats.

In addition, the ScreenPlay TV Link supports various audio and video formats such as MP3, AC3, WAV, WMA, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 using the most popular codecs. For image preview, the device supports only JPEG.

The ScreenPlay TV Link is now available and retails for around $100. The package comes with composite and component connection cables and a full-function remote control.

Product [iomega] Via [electronista]

Our sister site Gamertell has spotted an interesting freebie at Target retail stores. The chain is putting out a Speed Racer-themed gift card that comes with a 60+ MB USB 2.0 Flash drive built right in. It is one of those gift cards you fill with money to give to someone else, so it’s essentially free if you happen to forget to fill it before you take it home. (*wink*)

The Flash drive is preloaded with 50 MB of promotional files including the usual wallpapers, printable coupons, movie files and a videogame cheat code for the upcoming release of May 6, 2008, release of Speed Racer: The Videogame. You can, of course, keep or delete the files as you wish and simple have a nifty fat credit card sized Flash drive with a Speed Racer skin.

Read [Gamertell]

The latest in the never ending supply of USB flash drives is the USBee, which makes not only perfect sense name wise, but also has a “bee like” yellow and black exterior. Along with the fancy name and coloring the USBee drive actually has some nice features that go along, first off the drive is made from silicon and aluminum and has a flexible design to prevent accidental damage.

In addition to a thoughtful and hopefully damage proof design the USBee also has a cooling system built into it’s stripes to keep it from overheating and a detachable cap that will snap on to the other end when the drive is in use.

The USBee drive is not yet in production, so of course we have no idea on just how much it would retail for or any available storage options. But in good news it did recently take first prize in an MS Industrial USB Competition held by a Seriban Design Community forum.

Via [Yanko Design]