A couple of months ago Dollar General had a close out on the "Da Vinci Code" special edition that came with the cryptex for about $5.00. They sold out quickly but I did manage to get the last one that the store had.

It turns out that you can fit a USB thumb drive inside these.

The external design looks more Steampunk than Renaissance.

Here's an interesting project by Aram Bartholl:

"‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities."

http://datenform.de/blog/dead-drops-preview/

What do Dead Drops and flash drives inside Da Vinci Code Cryptexes have to do with each other? Nothing, actually. But for those of you who like Geocaching, consider adding a flash drive into your Geocache.

If you were lucky enough to get one of the close out Da Vinci Code Cryptexes you can add the Crytex to your Geocache and develop a puzzle around the word used to unlock the Cryptex to access the flash drive or a message hidden inside the Cryptex if you don't want to hide a flash drive inside your Cryptex.