If you find yourself away from your home computer most of the time, one of the biggest frustrations you’ll encounter is dealing with a whole whack of different settings each time you sit down at a new system, at school, work, on vacation, or wherever you happen to be. The new U3 Smart Drive technology allows you to carry all your favourite applications with you, as well as your PC preferences for wallpapers, email clients, and all that good stuff.

With an adequate 2 gigabytes of storage capacity, it’ll feel like you’re right at home, complete with your saved instant messaging, music, games, and office applications. The best part is that when you take the thumb drive out, any changes you’ve made can be saved onto the U3 device leaving the host computer back in its original form. It’ll be like you never used it.

You’ll find the new U3 Smart Drive technology on a handful of portable storage devices from big names like Verbatim, Sandisk and Memorex, so of course, prices may vary.