yankodesign.com — Instead of having to use multiple USB flash drives when one fills up, this colourful flash drive has a female connector on one end and male on the other. When more storage is needed you simply attach another Memory Infinite flash drive.
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shinglorJan 13, 2007
The design is pretty nice but there are some drawbacks. Assuming there's no redundancy, you'll need all of the disks connected and working to get to your data (you might be able to get some data off the first disk since it contains the FAT). Each time you add another drive to the stack you're decreasing the reliability of the whole array. Flash drives have limited write cycles so the first drive to die will take out the whole stack.
rockinroelJan 13, 2007
They stole my idea!
plagueJan 13, 2007
Yes but all the rear connectors are female. It's like a bunch of colorful snails (which are hermaphrodites) having an orgy.
ooliquidnightooJan 13, 2007
".."female" port .."this terminology was the closet my father (an electrical engineer) ever got to discussing sex with me.[randomly digging through electrical parts]dad: "hmm .. ok, here's a male plug. and THIS is a female plug." [connects them while watching me]me: "uh. yeah, ok dad, good talk" ..
bsimmsJan 13, 2007
I used "will it blend" once. Because it was the day that article was on digg and there was another article about an iPod shuffle going through the wash. I am sorry if I have sparked this horrible epidemic.
alecperkinsJan 13, 2007
@twtmc. refer doesn't work for everyone, so it's better to include everything in the dugmirror link, instead of relying on refer. And since when is there a "proper" way?
Closed AccountJan 14, 2007
i wonder how many you could connect before they all broke or the last one couldn't get power anymore? its very useful for laptops though...
gizzmo0411Jan 16, 2007
And for my next trick. I'll be pulling a 30 foot long USB drive snake out of my throat, and magically make it look like one drive to the OS.Next invention...USB connectible anal beads...Forget the gatorade..."Porn...Is it in you?"