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The Swiss Army Knife of USB Drives

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the see-'cuz-its-a-knife dept.

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.

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  1. Usefull... by R2.0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Until you can't take it on a plane with you.

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  2. wtf? by Lxy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thinkgeek, OWNED by OSDN if I'm not mistaken, has been selling USB swiss army knives for months now.

    Is it obvious to anyone else that /. has happily traded in sanity for advertising dollars?

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  3. Durability by keiferb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  4. Actually, the iPod is the Swiss Army Knife of... by Deep+Fried+Geekboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...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.

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    I'm not wrong. You haven't thought about it hard enough.

  5. Re:Why? by miskatonic+alumnus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  6. Keep them seperate by JohnnyKlunk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.