Saturday, January 15, 2011

Victorinox USB 'Knife' Holds Huge Amounts Of Data

Deep in the guts of the Las Vegas Convention Center final week, you found Victorinox, makers of excellent folding Swiss Army knives .

They've done the jump in to the 21st century with USB drives that form segment of their knives' element of tools. What you didn't design was only how ample information they've managed to squeeze in to a tiny, elegant, folding package.

The Victorinox Slim is existing in capacities up to 64GB. A incomparable model, the Slim Duo, includes two corresponding drives for a limit complete ability of 128GB.

Both are about as large as 3 or 4 dimes laid finish to end, and fit easily in to even really restrained USB slots.

Like the Sandisk microSD card you referred to final year, the Victorinox drives succeed to squeeze so ample information in to such a minuscule space by layering mental recall chips on tip of a other inside the skinny, 1mm thick fragment package that forms the heart of the drive. It's an splendid exploit of electronic engineering.

The fact that the drives have an understated Swiss Army blade design is flattering nice, too.

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