The Flashbag?
Ignore the awful name, innovations in the user interface for physical devices don't come along that often. The Flashbag (via Gizmodo), is a USB flash drive which changes size in line with how much data it contains, and while it's just a concept right now, the designer does apparently have patent pending.
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| CREDIT: Dima Komissarov |
This is a classic ubiquitous computing concept, far more so that the intelligent spoons I mentioned in a previous post. The computing power is hidden, and the user interface is obvious and tactile, and doesn't need intervention to understand and react to the changing state of the device...
2 comments:
Prehaps the device can be erased when squeezed? - Or data transfer starts, if the device is plugged into a computer and then squeezed?
Now that's a cool idea, I wonder if the inventor has thought about that...
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