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The Swiss Army Knife of USB Drives
Mudzy writes "The Tech Zone reviews what has to
be the coolest Swiss Army Knife ever made. The Swissmemory USB Victorinox is the
first knife to be equipped with a USB flash drive. " Besides 64 or 128mb of data, it includes such useful items as a ballpoint pen, red light, scissors, nail file, and not surprisingly, a knife.
Shot by an airmarshall whilst trying to back up my data
since the USB drive is removable
Ohh... that's why the site's down?
Specifically, it can be used to circumvent the process of blood traveling through the aorta.
They should have used the dual xeon pocket knife.
You can backup your data and file your nails. If you do it that the same time, you're going to look silly rubbing your laptop over your fingers.
I'm not a doctor, but I play one in bed.
The webserver must be running on the beta model of the Swissmemory USB Webserver.
GPS data? Backup camping photos? MP3s for round the campfire (and if you've ever heard me singing campfire songs you'll know why taking an MP3 player camping is a good idea...)
This is where the serious fun begins.
it includes such useful items as a ballpoint pen, red light, scissors, nail file, and not surprisingly, a knife.
Okay a few things:
1. Wow, a red light! Thats so...useful?
2. What the f*ck does a techie that buys this need a NAIL FILE for?!?!
"I left all my encryption keys at the Security screen."
Back in the day when MacGyver got stuck in that "smart building" and got attacked by dalek robots, he had to devise all kinds of things to stop them... if he had this he could have done a Jeff Goldblum-esque "upload virus" from his Swiss Army knife and have the rampaging robots under his control!
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
The knife might come in handy for that also! :)
If it's as durable as most flash drives, it should be fine. I've got three flash drives, a cluser of keys, a few dollars of change and my wallet all in my right pocket.
My left pocket holds misc. receipts and my more fragile Palm Zire 21.
(And yes, it's been suggested to me that I switch to cargo pants from blue jeans.)
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I've used my Swiss Army knife for such diversified tasks as tuning my carburetor and slicing a wedding cake.
I hope you cleaned the knife between the first and second tasks. I don't think there's an attachment for curing food poisoning.
I'd like to see a swiss army knife sans knife. Everything else. The problem is even this might not be allowed on the plane. One list of banned items I saw included "Tools". When I get on an airplane usually I see several tools but they are allowed on. (read that however you want)
What's even more bizzare is that the article doesn't link to the ThinkGeek page for this. Instead, they link to a competitor, thetechzone.com.
Congratulations slashdot! you've just shot your sister-company in the foot!
No, they've just DDoS'ed^H^H^H^Hslashdotted the competition.
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How does the Swiss Army defend itselves against Nazis, Commies, and Al Queda with those itty-bitty knives? Do they know something we don't?
Best Buy can have you arrested
you know you're on the cuting edge of technology when Stuff and Maxim have both already covered your articles in print. come on, this is retarded. raise your hand if you didn't already hear about this. everyone else, reach over and smack those people.
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I see you've played knify spoony before!
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Hmm.
I could see that.
A swiss guard standing at the door to the cockpit of every plane, armed with a halberd and chainmail covered with kevlar.
Short of a suicide bomber, that would make me feel pretty darn safe.
Maybe a nice battleaxe instead, little more easy to wield in a confined space without killing the first row of passengers.
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