Imation Unveils Paperclip-Sized USB Drive

Imation Unveils Paperclip-Sized USB Drive

HappyAndyK on 29 June 2008 - 17:14 · 20 comments & 11800 views

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Imation Corp. last week unveiled the Atom Flash Drive, a 1.5-inch-long portable storage device that is no larger than a paperclip and can store up to 8GB of digital files. Weighing less than one ounce and measuring a half-inch wide, the Atom Flash Drive is the storage vendor's smallest USB flash drive, it said.

Imation's Atom Flash Drive provides password protection and drive partitioning capabilities to secure data on the portable device. The tool supports Microsoft Windows Vista and is also compatible with Windows Vista ReadyBoost technology. ReadyBoost enables the USB flash drive to serve as an additional memory cache when used with Windows Vista.

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#1 qwexor on 29 Jun 2008 - 17:22

http://www.imation.com/products/flash_devi...flash_atom.html

#2 Airlink on 29 Jun 2008 - 18:02

Bah, I've seen smaller.
http://gizmodo.com/377165/super-talent-8gb...worlds-smallest

#3 profets on 29 Jun 2008 - 18:32

how the heck is this news?? theres been many physically smaller than this. its just similar in length to a paper clip...geez

#4 +stevember on 29 Jun 2008 - 18:50

Ignore me...

#5 ArKeYa on 29 Jun 2008 - 18:58

Page hits?

(1 reply) #6 goatsniffer on 29 Jun 2008 - 19:37

SDHC cards are smaller than this thing...

#6.1 GEIST on 29 Jun 2008 - 19:40

But they are not classified as USB flash drives.

#7 GEIST on 29 Jun 2008 - 19:39

Why compare it to a paperclip even though it's much larger?

(1 reply) #8 TRC on 29 Jun 2008 - 20:15

Personally I don't want a USB drive so small that it's easily lost or broken. The whole "small fad" is getting silly.

#8.1 MightyJordan on 30 Jun 2008 - 08:25

(TRC said @ #

Personally I don't want a USB drive so small that it's easily lost or broken. The whole "small fad" is getting silly.

+1. I hate small mobile phones as well. And small MP3 players.

#9 sibot on 29 Jun 2008 - 20:40

Why is such useless news making it to the front page? Paper clip size USB drive, ground breaking indeed. How will the computing world ever do without it!

#10 eck0 on 29 Jun 2008 - 20:59

I use these USB drives for my car head unit - perfect size for external music =)

#11 kirkdickinson on 29 Jun 2008 - 23:51

For really small storage, you need this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6979065094299371478

#12 Airlink on 30 Jun 2008 - 00:21

Now all they need to do is build one into an actual paperclip.

#13 naap51stang on 30 Jun 2008 - 02:10

too small for my tastes. Plus the price. Unless it is hyper fast, I'd rather have the 8 gig sandisk that I picked up for 44 bucks
last week. Perhaps not hyper fast, but couldn't beat the price.

#14 leonx81 on 30 Jun 2008 - 02:44

Super Talent flash drives are way small than Imation drives, I have one and it's awesome.

#15 Kerm on 30 Jun 2008 - 11:54

That's impressive stuff!

#16 C_Guy on 30 Jun 2008 - 16:37

Now you can misplace your data like never before!

#17 pyehac on 30 Jun 2008 - 22:45

What they need are flash drives with locator chips so you can find them when you misplace them.

#18 smithy_dll on 02 Jul 2008 - 20:50

Wouldn't the dual purpose SD/USB cards from verbatim (?) be the world's smallest?

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