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If you’ve been looking for another way to incorporate robots into your life, why not invest in a Robot USB Drive that you can take anywhere you go? Plus, it keeps your data safe, which is like rule number one of robot-dom, right?

These USB drives are cute and come in a variety of colors including white, black, yellow, pink, blue and red. Even better, they feature unique personalities. Available in just a 2GB option, they’re pretty pricey at the equivalent of $63. Yeah, you read that right. I guess you really  have to pay to let these robot drives into your life.

[Coolest Gadgets]

If you have already ordered the Qosmio Netbook transformer and the Trypticon laser mouse or the Ravage USB drive, you’ll want to add this latest one to your collection.

Same damn thing as Ravage, different paint job. It’s the Tigatron Transformers USB Drive. It comes with some attitude and 2GB of storage and supports Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista as well as Mac. It will cost you $51.

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We’ve seen several USB transformers lately. There must be a movie coming out or something. There’s the transforming mouse, the Ravage USB drive, and now we have this $42 import that features a cassette deck, similar to Soundwave.

This guy can transform into a netbook. And whether you dig “Qosmio” netbooks or not, it’s a cool 4-port USB hub. So you can now have a small army of USB transformers.

Something tells me we won’t be seeing this “Qosmio” guy in the new movie.

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Remember that transformer who used to transform from a cat into a cassette? That’s old school Ravage. New school Ravage is an awesome USB drive. This combines all of the awesomeness that is transformers, with USB technology.

It’s simply the latest way to fly your geek flag from your USB port. Pose him, transform him and fill his 2GB soul with data. Ravage will cost you $43 and he ships in September.

Now where’s the rest of them? I want Optimus Prime.

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This is our kind of robot toy. TakaraTomy is releasing 5 new Transformers Device Label toys to coincide with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. But these Transformers turn into USB devices!

Blaster (above) turns into a USB hub. Dinobot & Overkill turn into laser mice. Ravage & Tigatron turn into 2GB flash memory sticks. US Dollar prices range around US$60.

[Neonpunch]

What if I told you that you could have your own 7 inch tall dancing robot slave for the price of $25 and a spare USB port? He will detect whatever tune you are playing and start dancing, with flashing LEDs to the beat, while you sit there shouting “dance you robot bastard, dance!”.

It will feel good for a human to be in charge. For a little while at least.

[USBgeek]

For those of you who like crystals and cute robots playing jump rope, meet Robot Dreamy Tina. She’s the newest member of the Philips Active Crystals line from Swarovski. She joins her blinged out robot relatives Robot Happy Laura and Robot Naughty Raymond.

Perfect for robot-loving geek girls and can be worn as a pendant or charm. It will store up to 500 songs or 2000 photos with its 2GB capacity. The LED ears light up as data is transferred.

All this cute robo-bling will cost you $180.

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I’ve said it before. We need more robot flash drives. It’s hard to find a cool robot flash drive. This flash drive is all classic robot. The USB Robot comes in a small 1GB capacity, in green, black, and blue. Just yank his head off and plug him into your computer. When you transfer files, his little eyes light up!

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Our favorite droid gets a gadget makeover again. Big surprise. When is he ever going to get some respect? If he isn’t pulling aquarium duty, he’s showing up as cufflinks.

Well, now someone’s taken a Lego R2 and made him into a USB drive. Which is neat and all, but he still ain’t gettin no respect. Because when you plug the little guy into your usb port, he just looks like he got shot out of a cannon and got stuck in your laptop and should be flailing his legs. Such is the life of an overly merchandised droid. 4GB for $49.95.

[Slipperybrick]

A Taiwanese company known as MingJong has released some colorful robotic UVC compliant USB 2.0 webcams called ‘M6637U’ that sport 1.3-megapixels.

These little guys have the right idea. If you want to take over the world, you have to appeal to those lovers of cute and colorful desk accessories. Put a bunch together and they are clearly interacting, comparing notes for our eventual assimilation. Then when a human comes back into the room they all freeze. There’s not a whole lot of info on these guys, but be weary. Never turn your back on one.
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