"Kooky" USB drive features unpleasant cartoon characters

Cheap and mainstream, USB thumbdrives are almost to the point of cereal-box freebie.

The press release contains another great example of tech-industry bathos:

EMTEC, the inventor of the first magnetic tape for audio recording, boasting more than seventy years of experience ... has officially launched Kooky USB Drives, based on the popular character pens known as Kooky Klickersâ„¢.

Product Page {kookys]

[#1 posted by historyman68 , December 30, 2008 7:34 AM]

EMTEC, the inventor of the first magnetic tape for audio recording

oh, how the mighty have fallen...

[#2 posted by pork musket , December 30, 2008 7:46 AM]

They look like SqueezIt bottles.

[#3 posted by sheshe , December 30, 2008 8:05 AM]

i saw those at Staples last week and i couldn't stop staring at them. they're even worse in person.

[#4 posted by clueless in brooklyn , December 30, 2008 8:36 AM]

please make them go away.

[#5 posted by MomTheBlog , December 30, 2008 9:31 AM]

hey - here's a great way to make yourself look even more 'professional' ;P

[#6 posted by Tensegrity , December 30, 2008 9:53 AM]

Is there a gadget version of a unicorn chaser?

[#7 posted by madzack , December 30, 2008 10:45 AM]

@5 well one of them is wearing a tie.

[#8 posted by OM , December 30, 2008 12:05 PM]

...Those are USB drives? I thought they were some sort of Fiesta-themed butt plugs! :-P

[#9 posted by pork musket , December 30, 2008 2:43 PM]

@8 haha! I wonder what John "Assplay" Brownlee thinks of em.

[#10 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , December 31, 2008 5:48 AM]

Individually they're just dumb looking but taken as a group the ugly factor goes exponential.

[#11 posted by Gwyllm , December 31, 2008 11:10 AM]

Come on, they have a fashion sensibility that is reflected on the street, ad nauseum...

[#12 posted by rookling , December 31, 2008 12:22 PM]

Frankly, my dears, they look like vibrators.

And if you think they're alarmingly childish to look like such *vital* technology, remember the Japanese have had Hello Kitty v-toys for years... vive my !innocence.

[#13 posted by eustace , December 31, 2008 1:02 PM]

so im browsing youtube and there it is, karen black scrambling in terror away from a kooky klicker usb drive armed with a spear...

[#14 posted by Halloween Jack , December 31, 2008 2:35 PM]

It reminds me of the sort of cartoons that high school kids who really can't draw like to doodle in their spiral notebooks.

[#15 posted by Takuan , December 31, 2008 4:41 PM]

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/09/05/solarpowered-and-usb.html

[#16 posted by WaitWhat , January 1, 2009 8:03 PM]

I vote for a jailbroken iPhone as the tech unicorn chaser... It's definitely magical, and often mythical in it's capabilities. Plus it brings great joy to most who encounter one.

[#17 posted by WaitWhat , January 1, 2009 8:06 PM]

Halloween Jack - That is EXACTLY what my first thought was!