http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20060613/lexar-jumpdrive-mercury-1gb-review/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:59:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20060613/lexar-jumpdrive-mercury-1gb-review/comment-page-1/#comment-41979 SD Cards with eInk Displays » Coolest Gadgets Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:20:17 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20060613/lexar-jumpdrive-mercury-1gb-review/#comment-41979 [...] I only vaguely remember the days of floppy disks, you know, those annoyingly large squares that would break at the first sight of a magnet and only held a pitiful 1.5 MB. Now you can get gigabytes of storage in something the size of your thumb, problem is you don’t actually know how much of that storage you’ve used without plugging into a computer. It’s not that hard of a task, but having the current amount of space left always displayed on the drive would be pretty awesome. This technology is already in thumb drives and on its way to SD cards thanks to A DATA. [...] [...] I only vaguely remember the days of floppy disks, you know, those annoyingly large squares that would break at the first sight of a magnet and only held a pitiful 1.5 MB. Now you can get gigabytes of storage in something the size of your thumb, problem is you don’t actually know how much of that storage you’ve used without plugging into a computer. It’s not that hard of a task, but having the current amount of space left always displayed on the drive would be pretty awesome. This technology is already in thumb drives and on its way to SD cards thanks to A DATA. [...]

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