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This is a "mad scientist" blog in that I collect speculations, inventions and wonky, weird and other ideas that come to mind. I like to think that all of them are out or even far out but on the possible side of it.

They are mostly my own creation but you are invited to submit some yourself if you own them or are your originals. On the same token please note that all content and in particular original ideas are copyright by their respective authors.

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

IDEA: USB data stick with index and file listing display

Hi,
 with the increasing popularity of USB memory sticks eventually many owner will use several USB sticks for their day-to-day usage. However, with their capacity increasing it will become difficult to remember what data is stored on which stick - or if lost what data is lost.

  Hence my idea to put a small display known from budget mp3 players on the stick that will allow to browse the content of the stick. Ideally, there should be a mechanism to mark content so that when pluggin the memory stick into the computer the correct program to read this content is already starting automatically.

  Your host computer would keep track of all the other memory sticks you own and will update the inventory on the memory stick automatically when it is attached to the computer.

 
Posted by Kyrmit at 3:00 AM
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