USB flash drives have become so standardized and normal that people don’t think much of them anymore. Whereas they used to be fairly expensive (considering), nowdays you can easily get 8GB drives for as little as $20. Reminds me of the old days when we had to use floppy diskettes and we thought we were rocking out with modern technology.

Since there is inherently nothing exciting about USB flash drives, some companies have devised ways to make them interesting. One such company is FlashDealer.com, a producer of custom USB drives.

Now, there are many companies out there who do custom flash drives. I’ve looked into them myself, in fact, with an idea of potentially selling PCMech branded USB drives to you, my readers. Logo-imprinted drives are easy to come by. What makes FlashDealer.com interesting is because they do completely custom drives. So custom, in fact, that they must have a little army of elves in the north pole producing these things by hand.

That picture to the right is actually a USB flash drive, configured to look like a fire extinguisher. If you look on their website, they have drives configured to look like Kit-Kat bars, UPS trucks, even beer bottles.

This kind of thing probably wouldn’t be worth it for a consumer, however business owners could potentially use this type of product for promotional reasons. Like I said, I’ve thought about doing it for PCMech (and still might at some point).

Kudos to companies who make a boring product creative.

NOTE: This writeup is a sponsored post.

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