The coolest concepts are always the simplest ones, and the USB Floppy Drive from designer Thomas O’Connor is no different. Shaped like an old school floppy drive, this USB drive can store a lot more ...

I have a TEAC USB floppy drive. The closest I can get to an ID is "TEAC USB UF000x USB Device". The problem is that at times the drive will not correctly display the contents of the floppy disk. "dir ...

Since Apple killed the floppy, have you found yourself living with zombies? Your PC friends keep sending you floppy disks, and you still have old backups you should transfer to another medium. The ...

It's not often that a product makes us go "but why?" then "oh I see" and then "but why?" in such rapid succession, but the HP USB Floppy Drive Key has managed it. At first glance a standard USB memory ...

Some Android phones have microSD card slots, others don’t. But most have USB ports (with maybe one notable exception). That means you can plug in a USB flash drive if you can find one with a ...

Having picked out a case, mainboard, CPU, RAM, and all other necessary components for my new rig, I've got one last choice to make: a black floppy drive. I use floppy disks quite often to interface ...

Check out this combo gadget which combines a 7 in 1 memory card reader and a floppy disk drive. Now, I don’t know if any of you still use a floppy drive; I haven’t used one for years, but it might be ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer being manufactured ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

That the USB thumb drive is the natural descendent of the floppy disk is certain. They both suffer from the same advantages and problems: portable and convenient, yet cheap, plastic and all too ...