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Combine paper clips with low-capacity (say,
16MB-ish) USB drives, bang 'em out really
cheap, clip a wad of paperwork together, and
supply the digital version along with it.
iDisk Diamond
http://www.engadget...y/1234000240066037/
Small USB drive -- ideal for attaching to paperclips. [st3f, Dec 18 2005]
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Would you be able to unfold it, and use it to pop-out any CDs you'd left in the PC when you turned it off? |
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Quite an innovative idea, be useful at board meetings where you would hand out copies of your presentation, then go ahead an plug the usb in your laptop for a powerpoint |
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agreed with pa've. i had a really small 16meg usb, remarkably tiny. only to find that i'd lost it after about 3 days of purchase. size rendered it useless, as i was unable to locate it thereafter. |
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Maybe a barcode would be more appropriate? I know, barcodes cannot store much, but maybe they can point to some location where the data is hiding. |
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Of course, the usb solution is more elegant than retyping data, but the real feature would be bluetooth |
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Recast then, as USB bulldog clips. A bit bigger, harder to lose, more robust. |
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I can already see a room full of bored co-workers chewing on their USB Drives. |
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Ah, but that's the beauty of the idea. They may be small, but they are connected to something large. |
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By "really cheap", you'll still end up with a single USB paper clip costing > $5 each. You can't make 1/100th of an already cheap chip for 1/100 the cost. There are costs in base pure silicon, deposition machines, wiring/bonding from the chip to the plug, and packaging & distribution. All of these are pretty expensive steps that are necessary regardless of memory size. |
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So, at the price, I'd still rather email everyone a copy of the presentation, or put it up on a website (internal/external). |
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