Silicon Power Blaze B10 Puts Storage And Heat-Sensitive Graphics In One

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One thing that’s downright indispensable for most any mobile computer user is the simple, everyday USB thumb drive. These little fellas carry around our files, and give us an easy way to move said files from one computer to another as well as give us emergency backups for our most important files. But sometimes they seem just a little too simple and everyday, at least until something like the Silicon Power Blaze B10 comes along, which is special both inside and out.

It may seem simple enough; it’s a standard USB thumb drive, coming in sizes from eight gig all the way up to 32 gig, but it does offer pretty fast transfer speeds of 70 MB/s, weighs a meager 9.5 grams, and even offers up a lifetime warranty.

But that’s not where this thing really distinguishes itself; the Silicon Power Blaze B10 offers up a strange feature in which the graphics on the side change from blue to red as the drive is used. Most thumb drives do have a tendency to heat up a little, but this may well be the first time I’ve seen any hard drive take advantage of this to turn a normal property into a feature. That’s actually pretty clever, I’d say, and turns this thumb drive from just another storage commodity into a strange and unique piece of, well, technological art, really.

Maybe that’s overstating things a bit, calling a flash drive a piece of art and all, but it’s still not the kind of thing you see every day. And of course, it handles that simplest and most basic of tasks well enough, so that only makes things better.

The bad news is that we have neither pricing data for this little wonder nor any clue as yet as to its release, so we’ll all have to keep an eye out and see when this strange little version of a very popular tool lands on our shelves.