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IBM's New USBKey Device
[42]Technology Posted by [43]timothy on Monday February 05, @09:15PM
from the neat-device dept.
[44]John Brown writes "[T]oday I called 1-888-Shop-IBM and talked to a
representive about the possibility of buying a Thinkpad X20; I wasn't
too happy with the fact that it lacks an internal floppy drive, so the
guy told me that during the next week IBM will be releasing a storage
device called 'USBKey' which basically looks like a (guess what...) key
(it is even meant to be kept in your key-ring), but fits into a USB
port, allowing you to store up to 8MB of data in it. Amazing! You may
very well live in a world in which 100Mbits/s is a common thing, but
for the rest of us a highly portable and universally accepted data
medium which allows you to store 5 times more than 1.44MB is good
news." I would also like to see AOL start sending out (rewriteable) 8MB
USB keychains. Note: no reason that such things should be limited to
8MB, either -- we featured a similar toy a while ago; I wonder if IBM
is licensing it.
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Washing machine (Score:2, Funny)
by gtada on Monday February 05, @09:16PM EST ([54]#1)
([55]User #191158 Info)
Ugh, I'll have to keep it OFF my keychain.
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No Floppy (Score:1)
by [58]Raffi Spock (raffir@nettaxi.com) on Monday February 05, @09:17PM
EST ([59]#3)
([60]User #128916 Info) [61]http://www.raffi.8m.com
Yeah, great.But for small files, the best way is still floppy. And how
do you transfer files from one computer to another?
The world is coming to an end; Eat dessert first!
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Security (Score:2, Interesting)
by sl3xd on Monday February 05, @09:18PM EST ([64]#6)
([65]User #111641 Info)
This would make a WONDERFUL way to secure a notebook - an 8 MB key!!!
More than gratuitous, but it could hold keys for other computers as
well.
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Here is a link (Score:4, Informative)
by [68]jjr (jjr@theotherside.com) on Monday February 05, @09:22PM EST
([69]#15)
([70]User #6873 Info) [71]http://theotherside.com/
Here is a [72]link to the the USB Key at ibm it cost 49 dollars
[73]Shot that damn paperclip T-shirt
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Guess what?! (Score:1)
by FzyLogic on Monday February 05, @09:22PM EST ([76]#16)
([77]User #14009 Info) [78]http://www.digitalsarcasm.com
It sounds like nothing more than an iButton with extra memory. iButton
has been selling these things for a while, but with java and less
memory. Check it out [79]here.
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Liscensed? I doubt it. (Score:1)
by Vijendrin Sujendrin on Monday February 05, @09:22PM EST ([82]#17)
([83]User #313223 Info)
This sounds like another memory stick technology to me. Something that
is proprietry and owned by IBM is unlikely to spread far while IBM
attempt to use it to leverage their products.
I can understand that the device would probably never have been
developed if IBM had not had this intention, but I would like to see it
open, like all the most succesful data formats have been.
If you ask me, I think that memory technology's are the future in this
field. Good flash rams are becoming cheap and are universally
compatible. They are the future.
--VJ: Calcutta DJ, high caste stud and man about town.
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Just get (Score:1)
by [86]BlackHat (peagreen!no.spam!intergate.ca) on Monday February 05,
@09:23PM EST ([87]#20)
([88]User #67036 Info) [89]http://www.lugnet.com/~295/
a 64mb CF cart and a 0.25$ rubber coin bag. [/;-) Ya can even boot
Linux off it.
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Have a look... (Score:1)
by dchant on Monday February 05, @09:23PM EST ([92]#21)
([93]User #86367 Info)
It's been out for a while actually....
http://www.agatetech.com/products_q.html
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Only if it's cheap... (Score:1)
by [96]psyclone (soundwave@SpamMyMom.csds.uidaho.edu) on Monday
February 05, @09:23PM EST ([97]#23)
([98]User #187154 Info)
I personally refuse to use floppys now (entirely too unreliable) and
this seems like a great idea for students that don't have/use net
access to transfer files between home and school.
It'd also be nice to have a small battery and an IR feature for PDAs.
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Not another one (Score:1)
by hansendc on Monday February 05, @09:24PM EST ([101]#27)
([102]User #95162 Info) [103]http://www.sr71.net
My first reaction to this is: Oh no, not another portable storage
medium! We already have SmartMedia, CompactFlash, and Memory Stick.
But, this gets the distinction of being independent from all of those,
if a computer has a USB port and the right software, it can read it!
The only bad part is that the USB port on 95% of the computers I have
seen is hidden away, not accessible like a floppy.
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