USB Thumb Drives as ... Fashion Statement?

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USB Thumb Drives as ... Fashion Statement?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 23, 2004 @07:05AM from the not-just-for-data-any-more dept.

The Fun Guy writes "The New York Times has discovered USB thumb drives: "In some cases, flash drives have suddenly become so commonplace that, as with cellphones, their owners are adding fashion touches [DNA must be on file to read] to lend them a personal identity." Apparently, the most important thing about thumb drives is not that they are cheap, fast, durable, easy to use or hold a lot of data, but that wearing one around your neck identifies you as one of the techno-congniscenti, especially if you personalize it with stickers."

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Pocket protectors? by erick99 · 2004-09-23 07:07 · Score: 3, Insightful

Does wearing a thumb drive around one's neck identify you as part of a "in" crowd or as belonging to the pocket protector geek crowd?
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1. Re:Pocket protectors? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 07:15 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  If I see you it makes you part of the "avoid like the plague" crowd. Puts you right up there with guys who wear their beepers/cell phones/PDA on their belt buckle. If you must carry all that crap then do yourself a fashion favor and buy cargo pants.
Drivil by Kaduco · 2004-09-23 07:08 · Score: 2, Insightful

Hain't never seen nobody wear one around their neck. Generally on keychains, but even then, I've NEVER seen one with stickers. What, why, huh, WHO?
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Re:Depending on where you live... by kidgenius · 2004-09-23 07:17 · Score: 3, Insightful

I'm a geek if I saw a blinged out geektoy I'd still point and laugh.
Yes, that may be so, but if instead it was a blinged out geek girl, then you'd go a-runnin'.
Flash Drive by rkhalloran · 2004-09-23 07:22 · Score: 2, Insightful

It's a flash-memory chip on a USB plug, call it what it is.
Re:Depending on where you live... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 07:22 · Score: 1, Insightful

None of the members of the occasional groups targeted by fashion designers ever 'wants' to be mainstream - I remember when there was the trainspotting chic thing when it became fashionable to wear anoraks. Within a year, geek chich will have been left behind as designers find something else to trumpet as the next big thing.
Re:No DNA Sample Required by wheany · 2004-09-23 07:34 · Score: 4, Insightful

Or, you could register, login once and it will never bug you anymore. If you don't like giving your email address, use mailinator.

My one request for future story submitters: just say (registration required), the jokes about dna samples, firstborn babies and eternal souls are not that funny.
Re:Girlie stickers by Tassach · 2004-09-23 07:56 · Score: 4, Insightful

You can know what Lisa Frank stickers are and still affirm your manhood, simply by stating that you have a daughter in elementary school!
Fatherhood is the ultimate affirmation of your masculinity.

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Why? by ericdano · 2004-09-23 08:22 · Score: 2, Insightful

Why get a flash drive when you can do the same thing with your iPod? You can kill two birds with one stone.

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Re:No DNA Sample Required by FortKnox · 2004-09-23 09:33 · Score: 2, Insightful

keep upgrading. With every upgrade comes a better bugmenot. Before my latest update, I had to go through about 6 logins before I got a hit. This time it was first time in.

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