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DreamWorks Pictures
NOTICED - Tom Cruise takes a flash drive from Jamie Foxx in the movie "Collateral." 
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Ellen Lupton of the Maryland Institute College of Art wears hers on a lanyard around her neck. She added a personal touch, a decorative piece of tape.
Interesting tech ping
I just got a couple last week because SP-2 for WinXP seems to have put my CD-R software out of commission for the moment.
Very handy. I think this may finally put floppy disks out of business.
I have a 512mb on my ID lanyard I wear in the office. I have another built into a pen - 256mb - I keep in my business binder. I have a USB CompactFlash adapter I use the same way with 2x340mb MicroDrives and a 1GB MicroDrive. I was an early adopter of this and it is great to finally see it catching on. Dell doesn't sell their notebooks with floppy drives anymore (unless you want to pay extra) and they instead recommend the jump drive.
I saw one on line recently that is a USB jump drive AND a video/still camera. Coool....
Love mine.I got my last one for free. The in-store at-the-register discount plus the mail in rebate came to -1.50, so I guess I made bux on the deal.
Hard to imagine how we got along without them.
Carry 120 floppies around your neck....
I keep my mail app on one, so when I change computers my whole email setup, program and files, are all there.
Whatever would we do without the New York Times to report on the hottest technology of 1998?
You know what would be really great ... a complete, portable O/S stored on a flash drive that you could port from one computer to the next.
I prefer the fashion of a Sig, myself. Never goes out of style!
With CDs so cheap, I cannot understand the need/attraction for these things.
Heh... I have noticed a weird geek superiority contest based on whose USB flash drive is smallest, sleekest, coolest, whatever. Mine's functional, nothing special - but it's been through the wash twice and still connects. A great piece of tech!
They are great for stealing data from your office too.
A nice little corporate data theft tool.
Not all computers at the office have a CD burner.