This is kinda graphic.
It’s innovative, but, imagine having to stick your hand in a USB slot and waiting for the files to be transferred.
Or if your colleagues is around, guess what horror they will have to see you remove a usb drive from your finger.
You’ve heard of USB thumb drives, but you likely have not considered the real thing – a lost digit replaced by a USB Flash drive.
A Finnish programmer who lost his finger in a motorcycle accident has now replaced it with a prosthetic finger that has a USB drive built in. Jerry Jalava can now peel back his “nail” and reveal a 2GB “finger drive” for storing photos, movies and software.
Jalava had his left ring finger amputated last summer after crashing into a deer with his motorbike near the Finnish capital Helsinky. Given his profession as a computer programmer, the doctors treating him joked that he should have a USB “finger drive” and Jalava went for the idea.
Jerry Jalava’s 2GB USB finger looks like a normal finger, but it’s detachable and he leaves it inside his computer’s slot while using it. The Finnish programmer plans to “upgrade” his finger in the future with one that has a removable fingertip, an RFID tag and more storage space.
This time, Jalava’s USB finger is not a hoax, unlike the story of the guy who surgically altered his thumbs two years ago for better use of his phone keyboard. To refresh your memory, that guy whittled his thumbs several times so that he could type faster on his Blackberry and then iPhone — and it proved to be just a PR stunt (or more of a Flat Earth News worthy tale).
[from PCWorld]
I think some of the comments are funny, in a geeky way:
“If he loses a hand he could make his hand a USB hub with removable fingers, and he could have 5 drives configured in a RAID array.”
“fo sho… If he loses his head he could replace it with an IBM deathstar.”
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