The world's smallest 8GB flash drive
(Credit:
Super Talent)
We've always been curious about Super Talent's name, and finally its origins are slowly becoming clear to us: It must be some kind of allusion to Hollywood celebrities, because the company seems obsessed with the anorexic dimensions of its storage devices.
The latest example of this apparent fixation is what it calls "the world's smallest 8GB drive," according to Fareastgizmos. Indeed, even with the countless flash drives on the market, the ultra-petite "Pico-C" would be hard to beat in the shrinkage department. It weighs less than a nickel and is only a little bigger than a quarter, as shown in the picture above.
The only potential problem, however, is that it may be too small. It's a good thing that the drive is water-resistant, because it's bound to be forgotten in somebody's pocket and end up in the wash.
I know...it's a flash drive for woodland Faeries.
It's very cool, who cares about practicality. (only partly kidding)
I would by it becuase of the novelty of it. If I were a manufacture attempting to compete in a marketplace that had about a billion competitors all doing the price war marketing ting, I would definatley look for a way to set my offerings appart from the masses. This seems a really neat way to do it.
Anyways back on track, I wonder how fast the drive will be. As for me, I have the Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4GB that I got on black friday and it's size does not bother me....however I can see someone forgetting that their Super Talent flash drive was in their pants before putting it into the wash. Flash drives are getting smaller but instead how about keeping the drive a good size and increasing the capacity instead.
- by nicky1964 September 12, 2008 9:06 AM PDT
- I recentley upgraded my car stereo to one with a USB slot and wanted something small in size but big in memory !
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(12 Comments)The manual for the stereo (panasonic CQ-RX300N) said 4gb max however I took a gamble and purchased the super talent 8gb chrome drive and it has been perfect works just fine its the same as owning a 40 disk cd changer but faster my old factory fit cd changer is now dissconected unused
this thing is very fast gets a little warm but no problems so far purchased aug 2008
I recomend this device it is the smallest out there no question at the moment