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MicroSD Card Holder Keeps All of Your Tiny Memory Cards Together

Conner Flynn — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:00:21 +0000

Sometimes technology can lead to new problems, like how to keep track of all of your memory cards and keep them neatly in one place. I love simple solutions and here is a great example. This microSD card holder will keep all of your memory cards neatly organized and easy to retrieve.

microSD cards measure just 15mm x 11mm, and that means they are easy to lose in couch cushions, easy to be sucked up by vacuums and just easy to lose period. This holder will solve all of your problems.

This holder is about the size of a credit card and holds up to 10 microSD cards, and one microSD-to-SD adapter. Memory cards lock in place, so they are secure. It’s just $7(USD) from Amazon. A good simple solution to one of life’s problems.

[via Redferret]

3D Printed MicroSD Reader Poses as Micro Atari 810 Floppy Drive

Range — Sat, 07 May 2011 13:03:21 +0000

There’s something so forgettable about microSD readers. That’s why I think that this little hack is awesome. It makes a microSD card reader look like a tiny Atari 810 Floppy drive. Rossum made this miniature using a 3D printer, which is even cooler in my opinion.

I like the tribute to the Atari 810, and from the schematics and what Rossum posted, it doesn’t look too complicated to make your own. The best part is that the 3D printing was done off-site thanks to Shapeways, meaning that you don’t need a 3D printer in your home to do this.

Not only does the drive look just like the original, he’s actually hacked it to work with an actual Atari computer as a data source, loading it up with Atari disk images and applications.

[via Boing Boing via Make:]

Collector Concept Turns Unused MicroSD into USB Flash Drive Like Teeny Tiny RAID

Range — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:54:33 +0000

This concept design isn’t that far off. Almost everyone has some spare memory cards that need to be used in some form or fashion. There’s not much you can do with one once you get a newer, bigger one, so this concept that collects these microSD cards and turns the combined storage into a larger USB flash drive makes a lot of sense.

If made, Fang-Chun Tsai’s Collector USB Flash Drive would allow you to dynamically chang ethe storage of a USB flash drive, adding to the base storage. For example, if the base USB flash drive has 32 GB, and each of the microSD cards is 16 GB, then you could be looking at a combined storage capacity of 80 GB.

Needless to say if Thanko hasn’t made this yet, they should!

[via Yanko Design]

MAME-CAM DX Tiny Camera: Buy a Bunch, Just in Case You Lose ‘Em

Range — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:00:54 +0000

There must be a market for these teeny tiny cameras, which is why Thanko just released another one. The MAME-CAM DX [JP] is miniature digital camera that’s currently only available in Japan, but you can probably find a way to get them in the US thanks to importers.

The MAME-CAM DX weighs only 14g (less than 1/2 an ounce). Thanko claims that it can record video in HD, with a 1,280×960 resolution at 30fps. Still JPEG images can be shot with a 3,264×2,448 resolution. It can also be used as a voice recorder. All files are stored on a microSD card, so you’ll have up to 32GB of storage if you get a big card.

You can get the Mame Cam from Thanko’s Japanese website for ¥7,980 (appx. $99 USD). Otherwise, contact Geek Stuff 4 U and see if they can import one for you. But you might want to order a few extra, because at this size, you’ll probably lose at least a couple along the way.

[via CrunchGear]

Lacie USB Keys Open Up a World of Frustration

Lambert Varias — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:52:02 +0000

LaCie have made it their mission to come up with creative and entertaining products that allow customers to unintentionally destroy or misplace their data as easily as possible. After releasing their coin-shaped CurrenKey flash-drives, LaCie now present to us flash drives that look like keys. Prepare to lose data in the name of industrial design.

The iamaKey is the tough cooKey in the bunch. It’s water- and scratch-resistant, and its protective edges ensure that you’ll never insert the drive with the wrong side up, but it won’t prevent you from attempting to do so anyway. It will also not prevent you from trying to start your car with it after a beer or six.

The iamaKey comes in 4Gb and 8Gb versions. The 4Gb costs $18 USD while the 8Gb costs $28 USD. If iamaKey is a flash drive for the toughies, there’s itsaKey, a flash drive for trendy people. itsaKey is weirdly shaped, and it offers less protection compared to iamaKey. Trendy indeed.

It’s not exactly fragile because it’s coated with nickel, but there’s no mention of water- or scratch-resistance on its product page. The upside is that itsaKey is cheaper. The 4Gb version costs $15 USD and the 8Gb costs $24 USD. Rounding out the product line is PassKey, a useful little fella that eats your microSD cards, essentially turning them into USB drives.

In other words, PassKey is a microSD card reader, not a flash disk. It has no data capacity of its own. But if you have a bunch of old microSD cards then you only have to shell out $10 USD for the PassKey. Transfer speeds will obviously be slower on the PassKey: it only goes up to 40Mbits/s compared to 480Mbits/s max on the iamaKey and itsaKey.

You can buy all three at LaCie’s shop; I’ve linked the product names to their corresponding product pages. I see a LaCie imaPieceofTrashKey in the future.

[via GetUSB]

8gb Microsd Memory: Tons of Storage in a Tiny Chip

Technabob — Thu, 17 May 2007 05:28:29 +0000

Samsung today has announced the highest capacity microSD memory cards yet, with a full 8 gigabytes of storage.

The high speed memory cards can store up to 2,000 typical MP3 tracks, 5 DVD quality movies, or 4,000 digital photos. The tiny microSD format is designed for use in mobile phones, PDAs, compact digital cameras and camcorders.

It’s amazing how far storage technology and miniaturization has taken us in recent years. Just a few years back, it would have taken 6,000 floppy disks to store the amount of data that is stored on these fingernail sized memory cards.

[via AVING]

Supercard Lite Adds Rumble and Memory to Ds Lite

Technabob — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:37:55 +0000

This new accessory for the Nintendo DS Lite lets you add both rumble features and additional storage in a single device.

The SuperCard Lite RUMBLE is a 3rd-party module that adds rumble to games that support the feature as well as providing a MicroSD memory card slot for storage of movies, music, game saves and e-books. The cartridge plugs into the DS Lite’s GBA slot, and runs about $34 (not including a MicroSD card).