I love cool stuff! Those little gadgets that make complete sense. You know the ones you discover and immediately say, “why didn’t I think of that!” It happened to me on Tuesday.

Storing data keeps getting easier and easier. Introducing the all new iamakey USB flash drive from LaCie. Why, because how many thumb drives and flash drives have we all lost in our short flash drive lifetime? No more, this three “key” collection, is designed to attached to a regular key ring.  It is also tough, thin, and  water and scratch resistan. There is a 4GB version that sells for sells for $17.99 and and 8BG for $27.99.

A multimedia journalist might use their flash key to store file video, graphics and preproduction, text, and images. Having access in the field to what we take for granted back at the shop. Since it’s backwards compatible it works on both USB2 and USB1 devices, and both Windows and Mac machines. They are fast with 30MB/s transfer rates, and 10MB/s write rate.

LaCie inroduced these flash keys the beginning of March. Along with the “iamakey” model there is also the “itsakey” that starts at $14.99 for 4GB, and a pass key that transforms those microchips into a …uh..key.

LaCie sells online and at major electronic stores. Here’s hoping it makes your life just a little easier in the field.

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