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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.
Until you can't take it on a plane with you.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Thinkgeek, OWNED by OSDN if I'm not mistaken, has been selling USB swiss army knives for months now.
/. has happily traded in sanity for advertising dollars?
Is it obvious to anyone else that
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
I have to wonder how this thing would hold up, though. I'm rough on pocketknives, and while it's true that there aren't many parts, I don't think it would take me long to render the flash drive useless.
Well, the site's already /.'d, but 64 or 128MB? I picked up a 128MB Lexar Sport a few weeks ago 'cause it was cheap, and have already found times when it wasn't enough memory.
Too little, too late.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
...storage devices.
I always have it with me, and it has my emergency backup documents plus it functions as an emergency boot disc. It also has all my contacts, registrations, passwords etc. Obviously it functions as a transfer disc too. The only thing it doesn't do well is function as a card reader, which would be the icing on the cake. Oh yeah and it plays music.
I have a nice SAK that I use for back country camping, during which time the USB drive does not get much of a workout.
I'm not wrong. You haven't thought about it hard enough.
You need to expand your horizons. I've used my Swiss Army knife for such diversified tasks as tuning my carburetor and slicing a wedding cake. You never know when you may need one of these little James Bond tools.
Don't know about you lot, but I'm quite happy having them seperate. I've got a 15 year old swiss army knife. It's been soaked/dropped/heated and been through every other possible mistreatment and it's still great. I don't see one of these coping with that.
Will 128mb still be enough space for useful storage in 15 years, will we still have USB?
My way I only ever buy top quality tools and keep them many, many years. My technology I can replace whenever I like.
James Bond?? Try MacGyver!
Read jack phelps dot net
And it only cost you 400 bucks!
Awesome!
A 120gig HDD and USB2.0 enclosure would run you about 80 if you shopped smart. And it won't overheat if you actually try to use it as a HDD for any extended period of time. I've seen them used as HDDs, they get real hot. And they don't charge over USB. And the batteries arent replacable.
Backups you always keep with you? Burn it on to a business card sized CD. Total cost? About a buck including a nice little hard-case that fits in your wallet.
Why do slashbots keep modding up people who tout the virtues of a $400 dollar iPod as a $90 external drive, when it's really a pretty miserable external storage solution.
I could tolerate the endless Mac advertarticles, and even quietly ignore people who claim Apple invented (well, anything really). But come on, this is supposed to be a geek tech site.
Yeah, you can use an iPod as an external HDD. But you shouldnt because it sucks at it. Actually pretty much any mp3 player can do the task. I can use my cell phone as a USB drive and mp3 player, but I dont go around recommending people piss away 600 bucks on the thing to back up their files.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!