USB Flash Drives Designed For Kids - From £6.99 Delivered

bingsy

Thought this might appeal to some of you. Kingston have just brought out a range of USB flash drives designed for kids. They are known by the name "DataTraveler Mini Fun".

Available capacities are:

256mb - Orange colour
512mb - Blue Colour
1GB - Yellow Colour

Link to Kingstons page for these drives: http://www.kingston.com/ukroot/flash/dt_mf.asp?id=4




Preloaded with 2 games:

Preloaded onto DataTraveler Mini Fun are two puzzle games by Big Fish Studios, Atlantis and Magic Vines. Both games require Windows 2000/XP and DirectX 8.0.To learn more about other games offered by Big Fish Studios, visit bigfishgames.com

Atlantis™ - Visually stunning and absolutely addictive, Atlantis takes you on a trip to the 19th century. As the head of a team of explorers on a classified mission, you unlock the secrets of the long-lost city in 81 challenging levels of pure fun. If you succeed, fame, fortune, and world-changing technology from Atlantis will be yours! Match your way through levels, and collect credits to buy bonuses along the way. Atlantis is sure to provide a quick break or hours of fun!

Magic Vines™ - A puzzle game like no other. Get ready to travel the jungles and plains of the world. Explore each location by solving a series of increasingly difficult puzzle boards. Once you have completed one geography you fly off to a new part of the world and new challenging puzzles. Stunning graphics, great world music, and some of the most addictive game play ever!

PRICES

I've had a quick hunt around and found a few prices. You may know of somewhere cheaper so use the following only as a guide please:

£6.99 for the 256mb, £10.99 for the 512mb & £15.99 for the 1GB version. I've partially gone through checkout and it appears that digitaldepot have free delivery if you opt for 2nd class postage: http://www.digitaldepot.co.uk/acatalog/Kingston_Data_Traveler_Mini_Fun.html

£7.99 for the 256mb, £9.49 for the 512mb & £13.99 for the 1GB version. P&P is free: http://www.w2w.com/

£12.99 for the 1GB version (P&P is £3.99): http://www.mymemory.co.uk/

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going2die_rich

Looks good for price and appeal to children, question is, what would children want a USB Drive for? Doesn't it seem like a novelty that wears very thin after a day or two at best?

It would be worth putting an extra few pounds in and buying a MP3 player as you can store data on them anyway and would tick 2 boxes for kids and actually get some use out of it.

Good spot though if anyone does have a reason why a kid would need a USB Drive

indiegirl_2

Aha, something else to look out for on my trawl of the classrooms - another wonderful way of distracting kids from their lessons - now they can bring their USB drives in with games on and play them straight from there.

I can see that these are going to be a headache for any IT teacher in a school!

I like the drives though - very funky - good spot, bingsy!

going2die_rich

I some how doubt the USB ports in any school PC should be enabled. Fair enough for Uni and College, but what would kids need USB Drives for in school? School work should fit on a floppy disk. It just increase the likelyhood or someone installing something they shouldn't in the first place or playing video files of adult nature etc. which you know kids would do given half the chance. Pointless in controlling their internet access if they can bypass it through USB drives.

Does no one in school have any common sense nowadays, it seems schools like wasting money on technology they don't even need!

Repo

Many schools give children as young as primary school age assignments that can only be completed by using a PC.

Many school kids use USB flash drives for taking work to and from the school. As for encouraging game playing... when you consider how many kids have at least one of PS2/XBox/360/GC/PSP/GBA/DS/PC then what difference will 2 rehashes of already existing games make?

Learning how to use ICT is a fundamental requirement; money which schools invest in ICT is far from wasted.

nej

going2die_rich wrote:

I some how doubt the USB ports in any school PC should be enabled. Fair enough for Uni and College, but what would kids need USB Drives for in school? School work should fit on a floppy disk. It just increase the likelyhood or someone installing something they shouldn't in the first place or playing video files of adult nature etc. which you know kids would do given half the chance. Pointless in controlling their internet access if they can bypass it through USB drives.

Does no one in school have any common sense nowadays, it seems schools like wasting money on technology they don't even need!

Floppy disk? :rotfl:

I can easily see a school child wanting to transport more than 1.44mb. Many new pc's don't even HAVE floppy drives any more.

My daughters primary school lets kids bring in usb drives to bring in work from home or take home something they did at school. I've not got her one yet, but this thread title caught my eye with that in mind.

EvilMonkey

going2die_rich wrote:

I some how doubt the USB ports in any school PC should be enabled. Fair enough for Uni and College, but what would kids need USB Drives for in school? School work should fit on a floppy disk. It just increase the likelyhood or someone installing something they shouldn't in the first place or playing video files of adult nature etc. which you know kids would do given half the chance. Pointless in controlling their internet access if they can bypass it through USB drives.

I'm an ICT teacher and we encourage kids especially those in keystage 4 (GCSE years) to buy them. As stated they're capable of holding the amount of data a kid will generate, my course alone would fill a 256MB drive let alone tech, history, geography etc.

They're easier to carry (most fit on lanyards \ keyrings) and compared to floppies they're fairly robust (sandwiches + sportskit + floppy = corrupted data)

going2die_rich wrote:

Does no one in school have any common sense nowadays, it seems schools like wasting money on technology they don't even need!

hmmm... Are you a teacher? It seems like you need to know a little more about your subject before you start flinging insults?

Oh and PC's have USB in built as standard nowadays. You can have them removed (at your expense) or disabled (at your expense) so I'm not too sure about "wasting" money...

E.M.