Victorinox $3,000 Swiss Army Knife With 1TB Flash Drive

Swiss Army Knife with 1TB flash drive. Awesome! $3,000. Seriously?! Who in their right mind would buy something like that when one can buy a 1TB flash drive for around $150?

Only the rich and famous that is for sure. For average people like me, I ain’t going to waste my money buying this one.

But hey! If you are all for it, then it is up to you . It is your money after all, right?

The flash drive is powerful though. It is capable of 22MB/s read and 15MB/s write, removable from the knife body and features a 96×49 bi-stable monochrome display which displays what is on your device and how much room you have left.

Still, $3,000? No way. Ha! Ha!

USB Stick PC For $25

For real? Yes, made possible by David Braben, a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments.

Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC that has a HDMI port in one end and a USB port on the other. You plug it into a HDMI socket and then connect a keyboard via the USB port giving you a fully functioning machine running a version of Linux. The cost? $25. (Info from Geek.com)

he hardware being offered is no slouch either. It uses a 700MHz ARM11 processor coupled with 128MB of RAM and runs OpenGL ES 2.0 allowing for decent graphics performance with 1080p output confirmed. Storage is catered for by an SD card slot. It also looks as though modules can be attached such as the 12MP camera seen in the image above.

Ubuntu may be the distro it ships with. That means it will handle web browsing, run office applications, and give the user a fully functional computer to play with as soon as it’s plugged in. All that and it can be carried in your pocket or on a key chain.

Now how about that? A portable PC that costs less but can do so many things. This tiny, cheap PC is going to be distributed through a new charitable foundation called the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Intel & The Thunderbolt

It is geeky but true: An Intel technology called “Thunderbolt” is creating quite a storm in the computer and gadget worlds this week. The Thunderbolt will allow you to transfer photos, videos and files from other devices to a computer faster than ever before.

Intel’s new Thunderbolt cable and port system claims to be 20 times faster than USB 2.0 and 12 times faster than FireWire, both of which are its main competitors. For tech-heads in the audience, Thunderbolt transfers files at a rate of 10 gigabits per second. Its closest competitor, USB 3.0, allows for file transfers at a rate of 5 gigabits per second — so Thunderbolt is twice as fast.

The big catch, though: Intel developed this technology in coordination with Apple. So, for now, it’s only available on Apple’s new MacBook Pro line, which debuted on Thursday, the same day Intel announced Thunderbolt (boy, how much did Apple pay them for this? ).