Those USB flash drives sure are cool, aren't they? They're an easy way to move documents and photos around from machine to machine, and you can even run an operating system off of them, if you can spin your propeller cap fast enough.

But what happens if you drop it on the bus? Or you decide to throw it at a passing bird, miss, and end up dropping it right into the hands of an 3v!L H4Xx0r who is on jet-powered skates and runs away with all your precious porn^W data?

The kids at Kington (which keeps looking like "Klingon" to me -- must be some sort of PTSD) have come up with a simple, yet effective way to mollify your fears: the self-destructing usb drive.

I hear that there is a Klingon USB drive in the works, which uses bat'leH technology to announce "Hab SoSlI' Quch!" or "yIH ngaghwI'!" to the would-be data thief, causing great dishonor and death by painstick.

(Link via fantacular)