Feb 20, 2007 10:54 AM

IronDrive: Blast-Proof Steampunk USB Drive

The IronDrive, with its polished brass cylinder, looks more like something that popped off the LNER Mallard during a speed run than a USB thumbdrive. Created for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. to be blast-proof in the field of war, the drive is, in fact, made under license from high-tech military contractor Lockheed Martin, […]

"The IronDrive™, tested for high temperature, shock, vibration, caustic agents, submersion, EMI, and nuclear stresses, is the ideal USB Drive for harsh military and commercial environments. The IronDrive™ does all this and retains the “hot pluggable” feature of a standard USB devices, without the fragility of a typical USB connector."

To demonstrate the device's impregnability, the website has a random picture of a mobile rocket truck, whose awe-inspiring assaults would leave nary a dent on its burnished hide.

Product Page [IronDrive via Crave]

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