Various sources have reported that the Department of Defense has banned USB Flash Drives from being used in the Pentagon. All drives currently in use at the building are being rounded up and collected and employees are being told they may not receive the drives back.

The Pentagon has not issued an official statement but a spokesman said they are taking precautionary measures against a "global virus" that affects external storage devices. The spokesman did not offer any information as to how long the ban would last. More on this as it develops.

Nintendo’s dual-screen DSi was released in Japan yesterday, and several flash card devices were tested on the system. The results were bad, with every single device failing on the system.

R4 – Failed
EZ Flash V – Failed
CycloDS – Failed
G6 DS Real – Failed
M3 DS Real – Failed
Supercard DS One – Failed
iTouch DS – Failed
FCard – Failed
NCard – Failed
M3 DS Simply – Failed
U2DS – Failed

There may be more that have yet to be tried, but as for now, the DSi seems to be impervious to the wonders of pirated flash cards.

Now this is a cool item. More storage in a little bitty USB drive. Buffalo’s SHD-U32GS features USB 2.0 connectivity along with their Turbo USB technology, which claims percent faster transfers. Measuring 19- x 14- x 91-millimeters, it is not cheap at $302, but hey – that’s only $9.44 per gig!

J. Lo will be releasing an album via flash drive, and not a cheap one either. Gresso and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have come up with this idea to distribute Lopez’s "Brave" album on the Adam&Eve flash drive, which features 1GB of storage and is crafted from African Mahogany or African Blackwood. It is supposed to sell for around $70 and methinks that just might hurt sales.

Researchers at Arizona State University have discovered a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale. What that means for us, is low-cost, low-power computer memory – like a terabyte-sized flash drive!

"A thumb drive using our memory could store a terabyte of information," says Michael Kozicki, director of ASU’s Center for Applied Nanoionics, which developed the technology. "All the current limitations in portable electronic storage could go away. You could record video of every event in your life and store it."

This new technology has a catchy name too – nano-ionics, a field that focuses on moving and transforming positively charged atoms.