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Credit Card sized 5GB HD to arrive late this year
An anonymous reader writes "PC World reports in this article:
"The card actually has moveable parts inside its thin shell," says Bill Heil, vice president of StorCard.
A spinning wheel made of Mylar is engaged when the card is inserted into a StorReader, a USB-connected drive or PC Card that reads and writes to the StorCard. The reader is expected to retail for under $100 and the cards for under $15 each, Heil says.
The StorCard and StorReader are scheduled to become available in the second half of 2003."
filling up your credit card with hard disks...
This thing doesn't have much mass but it's going to have a huge rotational inertia. I can see somebody carrying this in a laptop and walking around a corner only to be flung to the ground. I guess if they installed two, one upside down the angular momentum would cancel and they could be hauled around safely. Assuming the cases were strong enough not to crush each other.
I suspect that Duke Nukem Forever will be released using this new media.
Cmdr Taco's grammar checker to become late 2007, at the earliest.
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Trip to the ballpark with teenage son: $25.
Trip to computer store for card reader: $100.
Trip to radio shack for odds-n-ends: $30.
Look on son's face when he cracks into the secret pr0n cache on your new credit card: Priceless.
A Credit Card sized 5GB HD is never late, Hemos Baggins.
It arrives on the market precisely when it means to!
Maybe they are planning to kill off the technology.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
will raise the price to $200?
Cause obviously this thing is going to hold my entire mp3 collection...I don't see any other use.
Er, and you need a PC card reader to put the pc card in.. and a computer to put that in.. and some way to power the computer.. hell, this thing ain't that small. It barely fits in the back of a pickup.
"Credit Card sized 5GB HD to become late this year"
So...:
1. Is it coming late this year, or
2. Is it on target but is going to become late sometime later this year, or
3. Is it going through a transcendant, life-changing experience sometime during this year, or...
GF.
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
this can be possible, remember paper?
you could write something on it and then even after you folded it, you could still read it...
that stuff was the bomb...
I'm not scared. I have a large magnet.
Spinning wheel of mylar?
That is a floppy folks, not a hard drive.
Grammer odd not, I think.
-yoda.
Can you say "Movie iPod?"...
Of course, then comes the issue of watching decent-quality movies on a post-stamp-sized screen.
Probably won't come with 5.1 either...
Stéphane "Alias" Gallay
Now, where did I put this witty quote?..
Another expensive device I'll accidentally sit on.
A great name is self-describing. With "StorCard", we know its purpose (Storage) and its shape and size (Card). At two syllables, it's also easy to pronounce (think "Pepsi" and "Ajax").
With Pepsi we know that it is brisk and full of energy (Pep) and a positive thing for Spanish speaking people (si) so it is a source of positive energy (or a positive source of energy?) for Spaniards and Mexicans.
With Ajax we know that it is singular (A) and yet contains a plurality of small objects used in a child's game (jax) and is a wonderful way to consolidate scattered pieces into one cohesive unit. That's why moms love Ajax.
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
Of course it's going to be late! True news would be, "Really neat toy to arrive on scheduled release date." May even arrive early, says manufacturer. Industry shocked, film at 11.
Has anyone else caught the fact it sounds like a really big Zip drive. Does anyone else remember the joys of zip drive ownership? Your data is about as safe as a fresh baked pie on a windowsill at a fat farm.
---But that price isn't bad compared to ( much more reliable ) ZIP disks..
I only need say 1 word to refute the "Reliablity of Zip disks".......
Click.
Translation into English:
"My government is fucking me up the ass, and by god, it feels good!"
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
What isn't clear to me is how and who will be able to access the information. Having strong encryption (seems to be optional, and it doesn't mention the expected hit on access speed) on the disc itself, while good, doesn't mean that the access is well protected. It could be as simple as putting the card in a machine, typing your password, and et voila, someone has your password. Or the gummint gets access built in. Or one is required to provide access or pay a penalty (legal or inability to access something desired).
;-)
It will come down to careful implementation at all levels of usage including social, if the encryption is to mean anything useful to end users.
You're right about the p0rn, though. This kind of thing would be great paired with a sort of eBook reader
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> eBook reader
Reader? Uh...sure. Oh, the articles!