Adata's solar powered USB flash drive

by Paul Miller, posted Jun 12th 2006 at 5:29PM

So Adata has really been jumping into the latest fad of slapping a display onto a memory device in order to read its available storage. They've dabbled in e-ink and the like, but this time they're powering a good old fashioned pocket calculator LCD with a pocket calculator solar panel. The good news about this is that the proven tech should allow them to get these 128MB to 1GB drives out the door before long, the bad news is that it looks pretty lame, and you can't tell all your friends that you own an e-ink display. Not to worry, Adata was showing one of those as well, along with a USB key with a retractable headset for all your VoIP needs.

[Via The Raw Feed]

Filed under: Storage

Tags: adata, e-ink, flash drive, flash drive display, FlashDrive, FlashDriveDisplay, usb key, UsbKey

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PuBeLeSs @ Jun 12th 2006 5:49PM

the point of this is what?

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Tricky @ Jun 12th 2006 9:10PM

Yeah, I'm really not needing a capacity display. That's what Explorer is for.

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Kelvinyam @ Jun 12th 2006 10:58PM

It will be cool though if it let you set some text (or clock) to be displayed with backlit.

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John Stracke @ Jun 13th 2006 9:48AM

The interesting thing about these capacity meters is that they assume you're never going to reformat the flash drive with a different filesystem. If I put, say, ext3 on it, then the drive's firmware will look at the sectors where it thinks FAT's FAT lives, and give me totally bogus data on the screen. Amusing, but not worth a premium.

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