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Notoriously USB
Last Friday, Notorious (the movie) hit the big screen. On Tuesday prior, Catwalk Enterprises, a company handling PR and marketing for the film, contacted us with the usual request, ” We need 150 portable media players, printed with the Notorious logo and pre-loaded with an exclusive track from the upcoming feature, TOMORROW.” Done!
The next evening, our shipping department was
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Benchmade Bali-USB Drive
About a year ago, Benchmade Knife Company came to us with a request to make them “the first 50 state legal bali-song” butterfly knife. We did just that. In early 2008, Benchmade added to their collection a 2GB USB drive (a limited run of 3000 pcs) in a shape of their signature bali-song knife design.
The knife/USB is available for
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Petrol (gas pump) USB Drive
Nice to be back home from CES. So many interesting concepts in the work, with Samsung leading the way (or at least that’s what their booth tricked me into thinking).
For us, we are always working on something new and cool. As I mentioned before, we have partnered up with Petrol Advertising where they are making us a hot, graphic
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Oh Maria Keep My Data Safe
This info is a bit outdated, but Luis Eslava, an industrial designer out of Spain, just placed his second order for the Virgin Mary Custom USB Drive.
It all started in late 2006 when Luis (ABR Produccion) came to us with a strange request. “Can you make me a Virgin Mary USB drive,” he asked? The answer was, “of course
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December 08 Updates
I hope everyone had a nice holiday break. I wanted to let you know about new things that happened at CustomUSB in December.
- We’ve updated our website. New products and solutions are available. We are shifting our focus from the standard USB products to our ability to create any custom shaped USB drives, thus the new slogan – “Custom (Anything)
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Getting in Sync (and I don’t mean the band)
Here is a question I hear at least once a day:
Hi, my name is (insert name here) and I am looking for a price quote. We currently use CD’s to distribute our content (digital catalog, music, software) and want to switch to USB drives. We don’t have a specific budget in mind, but we pay about $1-2 for CD’s.
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Demand Driven
Someone asked me last week what made us (CustomUSB) start offering 24-hour turn around. The answer is DEMAND.
About the same time, I had some issues with one of our vendors. We have had and ongoing problem with delivery and quality of some parts we use to make our flash drives. This has been going on for quite a while
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Product Review: Spin USB Drive
Say hello to the Spin drive.
Standing at 2.17 inches tall, 0.63 inches wide, and 0.35 inches deep, Spin is the most popular model on the market. Almost always, however, it is not used to its full potential.
Here are some things you probably did not know about Spin.
- The [a] Body of the Spin drive can be customized to
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USB Drive: Disected (and explained)
Not everyone knows what a USB drive looks like on the inside. Well, here it is, in all its glory.
Here is what you can see in the image:
[a] NAND Flash – This is the memory chip. When you copy files to the drive, this is where they are stored. This type of memory is also used inside camera
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