For serious collectors only. Flash drives dressed for rebellion

Boston-based design house Mimoco last week released limited edition USB flash drives that look like Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Storm Trooper, and R2-D2. More characters are in the pipeline, according to Mimoco.

Chewie is my favorite. Having his face on a USB flash drive should help me to form an attachment to my data, thus making it a bit harder to lose.

Link to my Boston Globe column, and excerpt, below.

clipped from www.boston.com PERSONAL TECH | PERSONAL TECH Chewbacca as a USB drive By Mark Baard | May 7, 2007 The Boston-based designer toy studio Mimoco (mimoco.com and starwarsshop.com) has just released the cutest little USB flash drives you are likely to find. They are a line of inch-long “Star Wars” toys with lots of artful details (Chewbacca’s belt, Artoo’s input panels, and so on), which hold up to 4 gigabytes in their bellies.