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Thumbdrive, literally - the USB stick that fits your palm

Trips & Sights Well its - again - the Japanese. Taking the necessary and the funny together. The desperate search for news of the Japanese media seems again to climax in a product that you only carry around because it has been on TV. This is becoming a eternal self-fulfilling prophecy. You want to be on TV, so you create something crazy, the product is shown on TV and everyone wants it, buys it, and you get rich. The problem here is that so many people are doing this create-show-sell that you won't sell more than the first production batch. However, this can be a lot if you consider the number of people in that country. This producer even knows that it does make sense to create something expensive. It costs a fortune (7800 Yen) if you consider that a 128MB thumbdrive can be a giveaway for some companies by now. Solid Alliance is also the inventor of the "Sushi Disc" (a USB Stick that looks like Sushi and the Ping-Pong-Shoes ...

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