Hagiwara's Firefox thumbdrive

Hagiwara Syscom has a neat, if not entirely innovative, take on the idea of bundling application and security software into USB thumbdrives. Their latest, the UD-Internet, includes Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird on a 256MB disk, set to auto-run an app launcher when you plug it in. Email messages and settings, and browser bookmarks, are stored in password-protected form on the drive. Out March 30 and should cost around Y5,000; unfortunately only compatible with Windows XP/2000, though we can't imagine it being too difficult to home-cook one of these using a cheap thumb drive and whatever Firefox flavour takes your fancy (or all of them, indeed).

Hagiwara also has a security-specific drive, the UD-Security, coming out simultaneously. This features file erase, PC locking and password protection software, and will cost about the same as the UD-Internet.

[Via Impress PC Watch (Japanese)]