All of the sudden, I have a nasty urge of thinking back to the time floppies were “popular”. Remember the 1.44MB you could store on the little plastic square? They seemed quite professional at that time. Some might remember that every time you jammed a floppy into a different unit you had to take the chance that it could end up useless.

Vintage aside, you have to admire the popularity USB flash drives have achieved today. There are literally hundreds of models from well known companies and other hundreds or thousands of incarnations from ghost companies.

The low price of flash memory chips combined with the utility of such a device has made the USB flash drive extremely popular and it seems companies like LaCie are still trying to make the best of it. The company has recently released a coin shaped USB drive which comes in bronze and silver flavors. The device is going by the name of CurrenKey. Designed by the 5.5 Designers team and featuring a metal die-cast build, the device has a talent for catching the buyers' attention.

Although it's thicker than most of the coins you'll see today (and the name isn't ingenious at all), the drive makes a good impression, especially due to its coin-like, metal surface. The bronze model only comes with a 4GB capacity, which is somewhat pale compared to todays standards, but the fact is that its looks really make up for it. And if you think about it, most people only use sticks for documents and maybe for some MP3 transfers, so, in the end, 4GB could prove enough for most tasks. Of course, USB 2.0 is used in order to achieve high speed transfers.

The silver model comes with 8GB of storage, which is clearly enough for most users, especially those who want to carry other stuff with them, beside their work-related files and ripped music.

The 4GB model can be purchased of LaCie's homepage and comes at a price of 19.99 US dollars, while the 8 GB flavors sells for around 30 bucks.


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