Alfa Media's "world's smallest" miniSD reader: MNCR

While the miniSD cards themselves certainly aren't the leanest of the SD bunch, Alfa Media has unveiled the self-proclaimed "world's smallest" reader for these minuscule cards. Coming in at a hair smaller than Apple's latest iPod shuffle, but not quite as petite as the nearly microscopic Oki Electric Industry MP3 chip, the 24 x 21.5 x 2.4-millimeter MNCR plugs directly into your computer's USB port, theoretically creating an incredibly tiny USB flash drive. The company claims its (presumably) easy-to-misplace reader will play nice with Windows and Mac-based operating systems and keep those transfer moving along at 26Mbps. Although we aren't yet sure of pricing and availability details, we'll go out on a limb and assume your 2GB miniSD card will demand a bit more coinage than this bantam liaison.

[Via Red Ferret]

[Panzer_V @ Oct 4th 2006 4:10AM]

This is what i have been looking for ;( a mini Thing that i can keep in my wallet :! I am sick on wearing USB thump neck strap at work and anywhere I go ... i just wanted something really small to perfectly in my wallet and had more than 32MB storage space. I am getting one of those for sure.

[xtom @ Oct 4th 2006 6:33AM]

There is even a smaller one

http://alfa-media.com/products/mccr.html

useful to build a tUSBe

http://www.request.to.it/tusbe

[Darren @ Oct 4th 2006 7:52AM]

The MCCR utilizes microSD, not miniSD, though.

So it's probably the "world's smallest" microSD reader. ;-)

[shirizaki @ Oct 4th 2006 9:44AM]

It looks like they found a use for those miniSD chips now, since most cell companies use microSD for removable storage.