As Barney Stinson taught us, sometimes you just need to suit up.

You’ll rarely look better than you do in a suit, which is why it’s important for every man to own at least one good one. However, even after you purchase the perfect suit, you still have to maintain it. While reliable cleaners and some reasonable breathing space are usually more than enough to do so while at home, once you have to take it on the road, your prospects get trickier.

A proper dry cleaning bag, or even quality suitcase, goes a long way to helping you avoid wrinkles or worse, but if you really want to carry one in a style befitting the suit itself, you might want to consider the Freefold luggage system, from the creator of the also useful Suit Commute.

The main benefit of the Freefold lies in its portability. It weighs about 7 oz., can fit into any 25 liter carrier (most suitcases, luggage, and backpacks qualify) and allows you to safely store your pants, shirt, jacket, and tie using a simple set of folding instructions. From there you can move around with complete freedom without worry of your suit ever losing its fresh from the cleaners, original pristine form.

While the Freefold is only in its pre-production phase, it if works as well as it appears to, then it’s hard not to recommend one to anybody who has to take their suit on the road. Considering how it can fit into any reasonable space (no special luggage or accommodations required), it gains a leg up over most alternatives not just in long distance road or air travel, but also in the usual, everyday work commutes (especially if you ride a bike).

Also, it allows you to enter the front ready for a party, and leave out the back all business, should you so desire, essentially making this the anti-mullet.

And anything that’s the anti-mullet has to be good.

The title of this post is a little misleading. USB 3.0 has been out for a while, there just haven’t been many peripherals to support it. Several firms finally released USB 3.0 products today, and though they are certainly cool, certainly fast, I certainly won’t be buying any of them.

Why? That’s my question, actually. Why would I? There is precious little I need to drop onto a thumbdrive these days. Even the raid arrays that launched today are fairly unappealing. My main storage device is attached to my router, and I do nearly all of my backups over the air, which USB 3.0 isn’t going to improve. Documents? Pictures? I have Google, Flickr, Facebook, insert-cloud-storage-of-choice. The days of carrying around the few things I really need on a thumbdrive are long gone, replaced by the convenience and security of offsite backups in duplicate or triplicate.

Don’t get me wrong, USB 3.0 will be around and become increasingly prevalent over the next several years, but my guess is the general public will hardly notice. The one thing consumers understand about the new transfer technology is price, and it’s a price that’s hard to justify when it only gives you faster transfer rates on hardware connected devices.

Kingston’s new 16GB thumbdrive is $89. The 64GB, a whopping $270. A USB 2.0 64GB stick can be had for half that price, and when the holidays roll around, likely a fifth. I can think of precious few consumer applications that would require the 60Mbps write speed that USB 3.0 will provide. So few, in fact, that I couldn’t even name one.

If it weren’t 2010, this would sound like something out of a science fiction movie. “You’re basically talking about an entire jukebox on a flash memory chip the size of your pinkie fingernail.” That’s what SanDisk vice president Eric Bone had to say about his company’s newest microSDHC capacity: 32GB. That’s 7,000 songs. Ten hours of uncompressed HD video. That’s pretty damn incredible.

This is great news for people with a microSD slot on their favorite device. The new capacity was achieved by stacking 8 memory units of 4GB a piece on top of one another, all in a package that’s less than 1mm thick. For a more detailed explanation on what the microengineering process involves, head over to Gizmodo.

The new card will run you a cool $200. That’s a lot of money to spend on something smaller than a dime, so you better be careful with it. Word to the wise – don’t leave it in the open if you have an animal of any kind. I puppysat for a friend this weekend and that little guy ate everything. Watching a puppy drag around a boot that’s twice his size is funny. Digging through the puppy’s poop to find your new SD card is not.

Yesterday, LaCie announced the XL version of the popular Rugged hard drive line, bringing storage limits up to 1TB. The award-winning Rugged drives come dressed in a sturdy aluminum case. Add some internal shock absorbers and the durable protection of a magnum-sized orange rubber sleeve and you’ve got one of the most shock-proof storage solutions on the market.

Thankfully, the Rugged XL supports both USB 2.0 and eSATA transfer technologies for speeds up to 3.0Gb/s. I’m usually not a fan of bundled backup software, but the LaCie version, the Genie Backup Assistant, is a breeze. For more information, including a giant self back-patting for the orange sleeve design, check out the company press release.