Pretec unveils waterproof i-Disk RFID flash drive
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 17th 2007 9:55PM
posted Mar 17th 2007 9:55PM
No question, vendors are constantly throwing out those "world's smallest" bits in a halfway futile attempt to wow consumers who simply don't know any better than to continually fall for it, but for those even mildly in tune with yesterday's news, they know better. Pretec's latest in the i-Disk Diamond series claims to be the "world's smallest," but measuring in at 45.7- x 12.2- x 2.2-millimeters, it simply can't be true without some sort of fine print stipulations. Nevertheless, the i-Disk RFID differs from most USB flash drives by sporting a rugged, waterproof enclosure as well as a built-in RFID tag, which should work wonders in tracking where your employees carry the company's precious data until they find a way to circumvent The Man. While we won't be the first to recommend a Big Brother-enabled thumb drive without a sound reason, these strange sticks will hit the market for a currently undisclosed price in Q2 and range from 128MB to 1GB in capacity.[Via Gadgets-Weblog]
Heh. My usb key has taken a swim in the washer more than a few times. I'm not sure waterproof is that big a selling point on usb keys.
I just pulled 2 1gig sandisk flash drives out of a pair of pants I accidently washed and DRIED with them in there. Popped them in and nothing was corrupted. Don't waste your money on this.
And there was me hoping the RFID functionality might allow me to replace the two cards taking up space in my wallet with a tiny flashdrive and a button press...
USB keys are inherently water proof. The only time you might run into trouble is if you try to connect it underwater, but who has an underwater computer with an open USB port? About the world's smallest thing, it doesn't matter. If it's small, it's small.