Although this image, and these objects, successfully produce a jolt of disbelief, I don't believe that this is true atemporality.
The promotional use of the word "tradition" is of interest, but sushi is quite modern, and not commonly perceived as "traditional."
USB devices are no longer so "futuristic" that attaching sushi to them can emphasize their futurity.
So what we have here is not atemporality, but some common-or-garden surreality, an amusing jeux d'esprit, a sister effort to Salvador Dali's use of a fake lobster as a telephone handset, the "Aphrodisiacal Telephone" of 1936.
It might be counter-argued that a digital device with "memory" must have some atemporal aspects. Also, the fact that a USB "plug" is still archaically called a "disk" is of interest.
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