Finally! Someone's read our minds. While thumb drives may have been a big deal back in the 90's, they're quickly going the way of CDs as a dated medium for information transport. What better way to show your support for greener options such as e-mail, Dropbox, and all of the cloud storage solutions out there than to only grab thumb drives constructed out of disposable cardboard?
I'll admit - I've had my share of fun with designer USB drives in the form of cute Chewbacca and KidRobot characters cartoons, but over the past few years, all my thumb drives have been idden away in a drawer somewhere. I've long switched over to quicker, more immediate file sharing methods where my files can immediately be posted somewhere and backed up in two or more places with little to no effort. Meanwhile, the thought of having to plug anything in via USB just sounds tedious.
Designed by Art Lebedev (yes the same guys that brought you that super-cool, way-overpriced keyboard), these amazing little disposable cardboard flash drives come sold in sets of four, easily dividable via perforations between the drives. You know, so you can split one with a friend if they're ever in need of one for some reason.
You can grab them in capacities of 4GB, 8GB and 16GB. The best part? You can write directly on them, just like a postcard!
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Who had a thumb drive in the 90s? It was all about the Zip drive!!
USB isn't dead - we can't rely 100% on wireless quite yet. I agree with Trish, it's hardly tedious.
As for the carboard concept, I am not in favour. They should be still somewhat robust. My first (128 mb, in 2005) stick went through the washing machine twice and survived to tell the tale.
Replacing the small amount of plastic with cardboard and making it disposable is NOT GREEN!
I've had the same flash drive for too many years to count. That seems much greener to me.
So, we're overlooking the fact that cloud-based computing uses server farms and massive quantities of electricity, are we?
Maybe it's greener if you just pretend that it's fuelled by clouds. Ahh, that's it. Fluffy free energy.
not seeing them on the link?
Fail.
No one I know had a thumb drive in the 90s. And *disposable* cardboard isn't exactly green, either.
The "not green" part of a thumb drive, or any electrical component, is the mercury, cadmium, lead, and other heavy metals within the electronics. Replacing the case with cardboard does nothing but decrease the life of the drive thereby decreasing its "greenness". Quality, long-lasting, robust components are what you are looking for if you want stuff that is less bad for the environment.
Tedious? Tedious is logging into a website and waiting for your files to upload/download, especially if you have limited or no connectivity.
90s? No one had USB thumb drives in the 90s.
While I'm not sure about the "green-ness" of these, I do like them for gift giving idea since I can write on them like a card. :)
Plus I do manage to kill my thumb drives fairly quickly.
I would also like to point out what someone above mentioned. I can't find them on the site at all.
Cloud computing only works if you have an internet access everywhere, which is not given.
I use my thumbdrive everyday so it needs to be robust. And I use the same over years ... so it is greener than dispose it every few weeks because the cover is made of cardboard ...
I know where my portable USB is, it's attached to my work id/prox card so I transport files to work. It's not stuffed in a drawer, I use it pretty frequently, so no need for the cardboard, which, I'm sure is quite bendy and wouldn't do well in my bag stuffed with work gear.