SolidAlliance's FATBEAR USB drive: gets fat, scares kids

by Thomas Ricker posted Nov 10th 2006 at 8:25AM

If your kids have grown wise to your idle threats of coal in the stocking, then how about letting them play with FATBEAR in their fairy-tale lands of candy-cane slides and soda-pop fountains. Then, when that toddler steps out line, just rip off the bear's head and delight in the screams of compliance. Now this isn't just any ol' child-herding, decapitated teddy bear mind you, FATBEAR -- which is more like your creepy uncle LEGO Man in a bear suit -- is from none other than Japan's own, SolidAlliance and offered up deadpan with a tagline of "let me taste your sweet memory." Start feeding FATBEAR up to 256MB of your data and this little plastic furball actually begins to grow, we think -- oh please god of the craplastic, let it be so! Of course, his powers of recall will be wiped quicker than you can breathlessly utter "eeer," after tapping that belly for a USB bong. Available now for ¥3,980 (about $34) for the 256MB model or just ¥1,980 (about $17) for the 128MB version -- but worth it at any price.

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Storage

Tags: fatbear, flash drive, FlashDrive, japan, solidalliance

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Nick @ Nov 10th 2006 8:57AM

What?! :|

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John Stracke @ Nov 10th 2006 8:55AM

Decapitated teddy bears are always fun. When my wife and I visited Bath (England) on our honeymoon, we spotted a window display of teddy bears sticking their heads through a wall...except, if you looked again, it was clear that it was just the heads. We dubbed it Teddy Bear Traitors' Cloister.

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Travis @ Nov 10th 2006 9:16AM

With the head off it looks more like the stay puff marshmallow man.

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Patrick @ Nov 10th 2006 9:11AM

It looks like a greeble. Cognitive neuroscience anyone?

http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/gauthier/FoG/Greebles.html

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strider_mt2k @ Nov 10th 2006 10:47AM

So if that's a guy's head under the bear head, doesn't that really make these a "Guy Stuck Wearing the Bear Suit" USB flash drives?

I can see alot of Amusement Park folks buying these.

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strider_mt2k @ Nov 10th 2006 10:49AM

Using these as a bong reduces short term flash memory.

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Mark Bolding @ Nov 10th 2006 11:51AM

Patrick,
I think it's an androgynous greeble, but IANAGE (I am not a greeble expert).

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Rick Lyon @ Nov 10th 2006 2:34PM

So if you feed him too much he craps out data all over your desk?

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