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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. Old news. by Jaywalk · · Score: 5, Informative

    These have been available from Thinkgeek for a while now. They also make a "travel version" without those fearsome weapons of mass destruction. (Meaning the scissors, nail file and that itty-bitty knife.) Not that the travel version is necessary, since the USB drive is removable.

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    1. Re:Old news. by cs02rm0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      since the USB drive is removable

      Ohh... that's why the site's down?

    2. Re:Old news. by cosmo_the_third · · Score: 5, Informative

      As they have been around for a while, there are plenty of other sites with pictures if you want to see what it looks like. (The site listed no longer works)

      -Cosmo

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  2. Oh great just what I need on an airplane ... by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shot by an airmarshall whilst trying to back up my data

  3. 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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  4. Slashdotted already? by thenetbox · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have used the dual xeon pocket knife.

    1. Re:Slashdotted already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "They should have used the dual xeon pocket knife. "

      Evidently blade servers don't scale as well as expected...

  5. Re:Why? by Lxy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Swiss army knives are handy around the home and office just as much as the outdoors. I carry one with me and use it many times a day for odd things. Adding USB memory to it just adds to its usefulness.

    What would really be handy is if they started making Leathermans with USB drives.

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  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.

  7. Re:wtf? by RWerp · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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