Princeton's "psychic" USB stick isn't very convincing
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Dec 2nd 2006 3:55PM
posted Dec 2nd 2006 3:55PM
USB memory stick manufacturers will stop at nothing to give their particular mass produced piece of plastic an edge over all the other mass produced pieces of plastic. Unfortunately, that means companies like Princeton from Japan are all too happy to market a range of 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB USB memory sticks as having psychic powers, all thanks to an endorsement by Masako Mitaki -- an apparently well-known Japanese psychic -- and a cheap software bundle. We'll give you a prediction: you won't buy this USB dongle. That'll be $5 and your soul, please.
You can't yet I'm afraid, so you're stuck for the moment with your old address. I think/hope engadget will devise a system to allow you to change it, in the mean time, why don't you send them a mail/tip requesting they edit your account info ?
How ironic, the very product regularly with out psychic powers is now said to have these powers.
That's... not ironic at all.
spil: physical != psychic
OH MY GOD, NO, MY SOUL!!! REMAIN IN ME!!!!! *sound of soul being violently ripped from carnal envelope*
Seriously though, cheap, cheapo, el cheapest ad/scam evar!
I dunno, I think BenQ's was a little cheaper, and a whole lot more offensive.
heh, so true Randall.
Hmm.. Lots o' Harry Potter style stuff out there :) Guess ya gotta ride the wave while its here.
If the flash drive manufacturers want an edge in their products, why don't they just incorporate a razor blade somewhere in the design? :)
What BenQ ad are you guys talking about.
"We'll give you a prediction: you won't buy this USB dongle. That'll be $5 and your soul, please."
They knew you were going to write that!
Don, it's not a "user account" per se. You can just delete the password and from the current users profile, and then change the email address displayed in the new users profile. You should then get a new password that will be correlated to your new email address. The system doesn't care about multiple users having the same name.
Zorque: ya its called a joke. I tried to make it seem like it was obviously a joke, but I guess I just suck at life. and making fake-ironic-phrase jokes.
@#3 and 4 and anyone else bitching about BenQs ad:
Come on! Personally, I thought it was pretty cool. Not every day you see a company that bold and creative. The psychic thing is pretty amusing too. So it's a bit controversial. Big deal. If you're gonna get pissed about something, how about getting pissed about something that actually matters. Something like the fact that Bush is doing everything short of running the US Constitution through a shredder. Hell, I think he's trying to get a bill passed right now that'll allow him to burn it.... ;)
Actually, if you look at the original article, it looks like Princeton is claiming that the *software* is psychic. Just another USB stick maker trying to bundle some shovelware on their stick to make it more valuable.
A sensible country would ban people from taking money for psychic abilities. Failing that, anybody who had ever taken money as a psychic should be unable to press charges for fraud, on the grounds that they should have known they were being duped.
And while they're at it... ban churches from taking money for their imaginary god.
What are you trying to say?
It's just a USB stick that happens to come bundled with a 3rd party software which does fortune reading.
This articles takes that news and reinvents it by skewing it. It's a little misleading really.