Bushrangers were Australia’s answer to English highwaymen and Ned Kelly was perhaps the most celebrated of them all. Known for his homemade armor and helmet — here represented by the USB plug — Kelly has now been truly immortalised by the art of memory stick modding. Fair enough, woodworking isn’t a terribly precise art and we could just as easily claim this to be a Hristo Botev (who?) USB drive, but we have to commend the considerable effort required to put this baby together. On the other hand, there are snazzier alternatives out there, which look great even without you explaining the mythology behind their design.

[Via Boing Boing]

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