Finnish Guy Gets Prosthetic USB Finger Storage

An anonymous reader writes "Jerry had a motorcycle accident last May and lost a finger. When the doctor working on the artificial finger heard he is a hacker, the immediate suggestion was to embed a USB 'finger drive' to the design. Now he carries a Billix Linux distribution as part of his hand."

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[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerry_jalava/with/2823985839/

Re:how is this useful?

[phantomfive]

You can see some better pictures on his flickr stream. It looks like he has several fingers he can put on at different times. Also, it appears to be a slot in one of the fingers where he can stash some flash cards. I am not sure you'd really be typing very well with such a finger, it might just be easier to learn to type just using your other fingers. The pinky already takes care of a ton of the keys geeks use [{]}\|=+-_/?'" so adding in a couple more wouldn't be too bad I would think.

Re:how is this useful?

[slyn]

If you take a look at his flickr photostream, you can see its just a small rubber finger that functions as a small USB flash drive and nerd attractor.

Re:how is this useful?

[jsiren]

The digit in question seems to be the left ring finger. Depends on one's typing style which particular keys would fall under that finger, but I find I use it mostly on the 1qwa<zx keys. See Finnish keyboard layout for reference, and while you're at it, take a moment to appreciate the pure genius that is the placement of all the characters essential in programming, particularly the Perl language, such as @$\|{[]}. My right wrist hurts even as I think about this.