World’s Smallest USB Stick – This Week March 16, 2007
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There is a point where shrinking technology can actually make life more difficult. USB sticks, for instance, have been going through some industry version of that movie Inner Space, where everyone seems Hell-bent on shrinking things to the point of non-existence or, at the least, the ability to find them. Take this Kingmax Super Stick USB flash drive, the latest one purporting to be the world’s smallest stick.
This one is really skinny though, measuring 34mm x 12.4mm x 2.2mm and coming in capacities ranging up to 4GB. Kingmax said it will also come with “well-known anti-virus software”. Of course, it supports Vista ReadyBoost and is waterproof and dustproof.
I guess my concern is how robust something this small and thin can be? It’s so damn small that I’m pretty sure I’d either lose it or break within a month. OK, a week.-Martin Lynch
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it would be pretty cool however, for personalised usb sticks, embedding one of these in a lego brick would be considerably easier.
i personally prefer this size, just right to put on a key ring...
I have been using one of these for near on 6 months, just on my keychain and I can say that it is very strong indeed. I've dropped it, and bent it and it still works perfectly every time.
mm this size for a memory stick isn't new. 5 years ago sweex brought it on the market
sony microvault ?!?
World is getting smaller and smaller :)
Not new at all. I've been using a 2GB card for a while and it's about this size (shorter and thinner, but a little wider). It has a further advantage of being a SD card as well. It's made by "DataWrite".
Methinks Gizmodo is losing it's grip.