This 8GB TR-808 flash drive is perfect for DJs and other music enthusiasts. You can pre-order it now for $40. Sadly it doesn’t also function as the real thing, but at least it looks authentic in a mini form.

It might be fun to fool your friends and tell them that you’ve shrunk the real instrument. Hopefully they won’t ask you to play it and prove it.

Like most disasters, the tsunami and earthquake have faded from the headlines and so faded from people’s thoughts. Just because it isn’t the top headline doesn’t mean those folks are just fine now. They still need aid.

Incubot, in conjunction with World Events Productions and CustomUSB, have created a line of Japan Relief custom 2G USB drives. These are limited edition, fully licensed, and in colors that honor the japanese flag. The best part is that 100% of profits go to Japanese Red Cross Society and to Safecast radiation monitoring efforts.

You certainly have your choices when it comes to flash drives, but maybe you want something different. Something in a sphere. Maybe even a sphere made of bakelite, that material that they used to make old gadgets back in the 1940s. They also use it to make billiard balls. And now the Tamawa Billiard Ball flash drive is made from the stuff.

When closed the flash drive looks like two billiards balls fused together. The 8GB Tamawa Billiard Ball flash drive will cost you $122.

We love Batman gadgets around here and here is the latest in flash drive form. It’s called the Bat Stick and is a 4GB flash drive shaped like the “Bat-Mobile”. Looks more like the Bat-Boat if you ask us.

It’s made from recycled stuff, so that’s cool. Better get this guy quick though. Only a single unit was created, using a broken Batman toy, some tape, some glue and a memory stick. It will cost you $40 on Etsy.

The Silicon Power Blaze B10 is a USB 3.0 flash drive with built in software-based encryption. It also warms up with use and when it does, the color of the heat sensitive ink pattern on the side changes from blue to red!

This way you will know if the drive gets too hot to handle. The drive is rated for speeds of up to 70MB/s and the Blaze B10 comes with a lifetime warranty. No word on pricing or availability just yet though.

If you like your flash drives to look like other things, that’s cool. But do you really want it to look like a Padlock? Well, if so, then check out Brando’s new USB Lock Flash Drive. It looks like a brass padlock. Instead of a keyhole, it sports a USB connector.

The flash drive comes in 2GB for $21, 4GB for $24 and 8GB for $34. It looks like it is wide enough that some USB ports may get blocked when it is plugged in though and that isn’t good.

The Fuuvi combines two gadgets in one and there’s also a slot for a MicroSD card at the bottom with the USB opposite. The Fuuvi camera features a 3.1 megapixel camera with 1280 x 1024 resolution and bright colors for anyone’s tastes.

You won’t be taking any serious photos with it, but it might be a handy little accessory if you like novelty toys and don’t always have your phone camera handy.

If you love the Angry Birds games, you are probably into collecting all of the Angry Birds Plush Toys and other merchandise as well. How about Angry Birds USB Flash Drive Keychains? They come in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB capacities, and feature many different birds and pigs from the Angry Birds game.

Whichever is your favorite bird, you can have it with you at all times. These cost $10.80 and up. The price depends on the character and the data capacity. Which one is your favorite?

We’ve seen the NES modded into many different things and we’ve seen even seen NES cartridges used as cases for external hard drives, but this mod is ridiculous and awesome at the same time. Ed Lewis created this NES cartridge flash drive with a NES console USB port. That’s right, there’s only one USB connector inside that console.

To make one yourself, all you need to do is open up the cartridge, take out the board and make a gap for a flash drive, then glue it inside. Then open up the console, cut a hole in the middle of the cartridge connector for the flash drive to slide in, and another hole at the back of the console for a USB cable.

If you are in the market for a more stylish USB drive, than the new LaCie Galet 4GB USB drive might be what you are after. LaCie has teamed up with French luxury brand Christofle to create the design for their new LaCie Galet. Each piece is individually plated with precious silver using Christofle’s 150 year-old silvering process.

The French-finished memory LaCie 4GB drive comes in a gift box and can even be worn as a necklace if you want. The LaCie Galet is available now for £94.99 ($152) and includes LaCie’s Private-Public software with password protection.

This USB flash drive from the Spanish company Deego is too cute for words. It’s clearly not the sort of robot that kills. He’s more the kind you find in a retro toy chest. He’s styled like an old classic toy robot figure.

This robot is USB 2.0 compliant and compatible with Windows 98SE, Me, XP, 2000 Pro, Vista, Mac OS 9.x and 10.2.8. It’s available in 2GB and 4GB versions. The price starts at €18,90 EUR ($25). Totally worth it. I might have to get one for myself.

Here’s a flash drive for those of you who like to whine and play the tiniest violin in the world. Well, we aren’t sure if this is the tiniest, but it is small. The Violin USB Flash Drive will cost you just $19.

It’s perfect for holding all of your classical music and digital sheet music and whatever else you violin players have. It comes in a 4GB capacity and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 and Mac OS. Great gift for the music lover.

Flash Rods makes a habit of finding the coolest die-cast cars to integrate flash drives into. In this case they have transformed a 1:18 scale model of the DeLorean DMC-12 car from the Back to the Future movie into a fully working 500GB USB flash drive.

This highly detailed car/flash drive features both gull wing doors and a hood that you can open. It makes the perfect geek storage device. Doc Emmet Brown and Marty McFly would be proud.

Mach Xtreme has just announced a new storage capacity for its MX-FX USB 3.0 flash drive line-up. The 16GB model. Like the 32GB and 64GB models, this new 16GB model comes with MLC NAND Flash memory chips and a USB 3.0/2.0 interface.

It will deliver read and write speeds of up to 125MB/s and 55MB/s. The 16GB MX-FX USB 3.0 Flash Drive will ship as soon as tomorrow for an unknown price.

Super Talent has a gob of different flash drives and external storage devices that cater to the needs of many different user types. The latest product that the company has unveiled is a flash drive that is designed to go everywhere with you, assuming you have your keys.

The flash drive is called the CKB and it is made to fit onto any keying with a large opening that will fit even the fattest key rings. The drive comes in black or silver colors and can be had in multiple capacities. The USB connector is exposed to the elements, but the drive has a rugged design.