Proud to be a geek? Than you’ll love these awesome flash drives that double as stylish cufflinks, and allow you to literally wear your geekiness on your sleeves.

Now this is what I call functional fashion. With these USB flash drive cufflinks you can look elegant at work, or a dinner party, and always keep your important documents, or favorite music very close. The cufflinks are engravable and come in gunmetal and gold finishes.

But stylish geek fashion doesn’t come cheap. These 4 Gb pair of accessories will set you back $195, with an extra $8 for the engraving. If you think they’re worth it, head over to Cufflinks.com and get yourself some sweet geekiness.

I bet you never even thought about cleaning those poor USB ports, on your old rig, did you? Well I’m still not sure if you need to, but if you really want to, these USB port cleaners, from Sanwa, are just what you need.

Now that I’ve got your attention, you’re probably wondering how these USB port cleaning things work, right? Well, let’s just say you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to handle them. Shaped like your ordinary USB drive, these things fit right into the port. All you have to do is insert and remove them a few times, and the job is done.

If you’re interested in keeping your ports clean, pick up a pack of Sanwa USB cleaners, from Brando.

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The QuickerTek Charge Monitor is designed to tell you just how much power is coming out of your USB ports, and into the iPad. Bceause of its insatiable appetite only a few computer models can actually generate enough energy to effectively recharge it. All you have to do is stick it into one of your gadgets’  USB ports and stick a USB cable at the other end. The four LED markers light up, depending on the power levels.

It might seem like a useful device, but considering most USB 2.0 ports only deliver 500mA (with only a few recent Gigabyte entries cranked up to 1500mA) it’s worth knowing if you can use USB to recharge your gadgets. Since the iPad requires at least 1000mA to recharge, the QuickerTek Charge Monitor can help you find the USB port with the right amount of juice.

The QuickerTek Charge Monitor costs $29.95 and is compatible with Apple products like the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

You probably can, but I’m sure you won’t like paying a large amount of cash for a few extra gigabites. Unlike the PS3, which allows players to save data on any external device that connects via USB, the Xbox doesn’t have this native feature, so it requires a workaround. But the brains at Microsoft immediately saw this as a way to squeeze more money from their clients.

The new Xbox 360 flash drives offer 16 Gb of extra space, but at a cost of $70. That’s more than some stores sell their 20 gb drives, these days, and the new Microsoft sticks come with no extra features, other than their compatibility with the Xbox 360, and a free month of Xbox Live Gold, which is worth $8.

I for one would rather waitfor that 250 Gb Xbox 360 add-on HDD.

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Seagate has released the new GoFlex drive series, and to make them more appealing, it’s offering you the chance to take full use of the USB 3.0 speeds.

USB 3.0 mighht be the next big thing in data tranfer, with speeds theoretically 3 times highr than USB 2.0, but it’s still such a new technology that Seagate couldn’t incorporate it in the new GoFlex external drives. But it’s done something almost as good. The company is now selling a smart kit that will turn any laptop’s Express Slot into a USB 3.0 port for one of its GoFlex drives.

To experience the unbelieveable speeds of USB 3.0, all you have to do is connect an adapter to the GoFlex drive, and then plug it into one of your laptop’s USB 2.0 slots. It may not be the most comfortable, or good looking solutions, but until something better comes along, it’s totally worth the advantages of the new USB 3.0 technology.

The Seagat kit costs $80, and the new GoFlex Pro drives range between $140 and $190.

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All you have to do is push in the USB stick, set the combination, and spin the tumblers. For the untrained eye, the USB flash drive seems safe, especially since trying to pull the stick out of the lock will damage it. But, in reality, this tumbler USB lock doesn’t anybody from accessing the data directly from the chip, inside the flash drive, provide it you know how to do it.

But, the old fashioned lock does look unbreakable to most people, just don’t try to use it to secure documents regarding national security or such things.

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PQI has unveiled the first 2.5-inch USB 3.0 portable hard drive, which can reach transfer speeds of up to 5GBps, 10 times faster than USB 2.0 .

Known as the PQI H566, the drive features Ur-Smart and Ur Fortress security software with encryption functions for classified data protection and personal data privacy. The portable HDD weighs 200g and it will be available with different storage capacities : 320GB, 500GB and 640GB.

There is no information on when it will hit the shelves or about pricing yet.

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This ingenious USB device has been available in Europe, for a year now, but it just hit the shelves, in the US. The smart card chip inside CHIPDRIVE protects your passwords with encryption and a PIN code, allowing you to take them everywhere you go and lock up your computer, when you leave.

CHIPDRIVE MyKey also allows you to fill online forms, store internet addresses and keep secure notes. It combines a portable encryption and PIN-protected password manager, with a Windows access lock that prevents curious eyes from seeing your private data.

The new CHIPDRIVE MyKey is available for only $29.99.

Have you ever had a french kiss right on the top of the Eiffel Tower and you want to keep these memories alive? Then you’ll certainly want to carry with you this USB flash drive shaped like the original French tower.

As you can see in the picture above, you have to remove the top of the USB flash drive and plug the USB connector in your computer. It comes with password protection for your tot secret data and it is available with 8GB of storage capacity. The Eiffel Tower USB flash drive retails online for $39 at USB Fever

It is just a matter of time until the USB 3.0 will completely replace the USB 2.0. Asus realize that and they seem to be the first to offer USB 3.0 with a variety of products.

So the guys at Asus are claiming that their future notebooks, netbooks and a variety of mainboards will be equipped with USB 3.0 ports.

This is an important step for Asus in trying to populate the world with USB 3.0 devices and I hope that others will do the same.