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Ridiculously Expensive USB Made From Meteorite

Evie Liu |
November 16, 2012 | 9:45 a.m. PST

Staff Reporter

You might have tons of USB drives far beyond what you need just for some interesting design. Now  is your chance to add something absolutely unique and stunning to your collection - something out of this world. 

 Zana Design
Zana Design
Apophis, the USB drive released by a Polish company, Zana Design, is named after the near-Earth asteroid that was once thought to have a chance of hitting Earth in 2029. The name could give you insight to why this USB drive is so ridiculously expensive - it not only contains authentic and certified 4.5 -billion-year-old meteorite on the top, but also features a high-purity diamond embedded in it. 

And that is not all. It seems that the meteorite is not luxurious enough for Zana designers, the outer case is made of 200-year-old black African wood - a material considered to be one of the rarest wood in the world - with either 915 silver or 18-karat gold, depending on which version you choose.

While the material is so flashy, Apophis is also a decent flash drive with storage capacity of 64GB and reading speed of 190MB/s. 

Of course when it comes to price, affordability is the biggest issue for most consumers. The silver version costs $1,130 and the gold version $1,990. Both come with a lifetime guarantee, of course, for such an outer space price - like Eric Limer from gizmodo.com said, “a huge price for carting torrented episodes of South Park from one computer to another.” 

 

Reach reporter Evie Liu here.



 

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