My mailbox -- not the electronic kind, but the cubbyhole reserved for me in our mailroom -- can attract some oddball gadgets. One of the weirder ones showed up on Friday: a Verbatim Store 'n' Go Micro USB Drive.
"Micro" is the operative word here: This flash-memory drive (or memory key, or USB key, or whatever you want to call it) only measures about an inch long, half an inch wide and a sixteenth of an inch thick. That's less than half the thickness of the USB ports it plugs into.
As such, the Store 'n' Go Micro -- available in 2, 4 and 8-gigabyte versions at around $12, $22 and $34 each -- represents an impressive feat of memory miniaturization. Unfortunately, it's less than practical.
Let's start with that tiny size, not much bigger than such microscopic memory-card formats as microSD. If one of these babies lands in the bottom of a cluttered desk drawer, purse or briefcase, you may not see it again for months.
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