Art Lebedev's Folderix flash drives are obvious, awesome
By Paul Miller 
posted Aug 23rd 2008 1:15AM
posted Aug 23rd 2008 1:15AM
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i want it. but i dont need it :(
A little steep $55, eh?
Well, that's good news coming from the people who make the Optimus Maximus... A little steep vs. waaaay too expensive.
I'll take a little steep for $55 Alex.
I grabbed an IronKey, that ran me $139 for 4GB....
It's fairly cheap, when talking about stuffs from Art Lebedev
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/art-lebedevs-finger-folder-flash-drive/
the internet can be like getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar sometimes.
Slow news day I guess
@bolezhinkov: Or, more accurately, with it in your pants.
@justin: the cookie jar in your pants?
Taking a good look at the 2 pictures, this one and the one in your link, they are not identical. The pic in the older post looks more refined while the pic in this post looks geeky.
I'll bet these are extremely slow. The core drive looks identical to "the worlds smallest" flash drive I had a few years back from PQI. Molasses, man. I can't imagine transferring 4GB on these things.
Blech.
I will only buy it if I have the same OLED on these
and I can change the color easily as I wish (if it can detect my motion...)
cost at newegg for a 4gb patriot xporter with high speed transfer, 20.00
but does it look like a folder? i should think not!
Looks like any other 4 GB thumb drive but with a Mac OS X spin on it. I personally prefer the sushi or asparagus versions over this.
Because Mac OS X is the only os that uses folders right?
Huh? are we using the same OS X?
Actually, I think those look more like the Ubuntu folders.
i cant wait for the "my network places" version
i wanna have an usb design like a black big bimbo cock... with at least 16GB storage.
kyle: it's a Mac OS X folder and it looks exactly like one (in my opinion).
been wondering about this forever, but how exactly do you pronounce 'lebedev'? is it "leb-eh-dev" or "lee-be-deev" or "leeb-deev"?
le-be-dev or even l'e-b'e-d'ev. Its Russian letter which has no analogs in English, and Americans typically can't pronounce it correctly.
True, but then again russians don't pronounce every us-american word with an us-american accent either.
pronounce it like you would "everest" and you'll be close enough.
"leb-eh-dev"
"o-ver-priced"
The folder theme is cool. But I'd be a bigger fan if they'd gone with a circuar shape, called it the "Oh," and charged zero for it.
Remember that the company is an art studio making art, so obviously things cost more than your average wallmart stuff.
Rather throw my money away with the USB humping dog....
I think it looks like an old iBook clam shell.
I think this one looks more new Macbook Pro
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/a6d9/
They are sooo Beautiful !!!!!!!!
omg i need one. now.
They could have at least made the USB connector retractable, it looks pretty fragile.
the fact that we are debating this proves that we are all dorks..........lol........ even though it is interesting and fun.
"..myriad of colors,"? Seriously? It comes in 3 colors. Not exactly the definition of "myriad", which I believe is something like, "a countless or extremely great number". So... use a dictionary next time you don't know the definition of a word. Please.
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An engineer didn't design it. It is an example of form over function. USB drives should not be much wider than the USB part or they will obstruct other devices.
And such sweet form it takes.
If you're actually willing to shell out $55 for this baby (let alone 4 digits for the optimus maximus), I'm pretty sure you'd sacrifice your 'other devices' to plug this in.
Well, true as that is, my laptop (Dell Vostro 1400) at least has USB ports that are arranged vertically on the right side, so technically unless those folders are really thick, no ports would be blocked...