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Who carries a pocket knife anymore? If you travel by plane with any regularity, then probably not you. Victorinox, the makers of one of the world most famous pocket knives, knows this and has decided to put something a little more TSA-friendly into the skin of its legendary Swiss Army Knife.
It’s not a pen-drive: It’s an SDD. The world’s smallest, according to Victorinox, despite managing to pack in up to 512GB storage. It can hook up to a computer via USB 2.0, but that makes for transfer speeds that make molasses look like plain water, so Victorinox have also added a plug to hook into an eSATA II port, giving native internal SSD speeds.
The drives are encrypted, and have a tiny e-ink display with the owners name and also the amount of space remaining. The case also contains a few blades, but they’re tiny enough to make it onto a plane (and therefore also to small to be useful). The Secure SSD, as it is called, was a CES demo and doesn’t yet have a price. Don’t expect it to be cheap, though.
Victorinox’s SSD flashdrive with e-Paper display [Official Victorinox blog]
Photo: Skattertech
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Fuente: Gadget Lab