Do you face the dilemma of having to
keep track of several fragile USB flash drives for your work? A lot
of us do, in this day and age. Luckily, someone named Marc Zeth has
taken it upon himself to build a neat solution to our problems, and
has enlisted the help of Quirky.com and a whopping 326 “influencers”
to do so.
The fruit of this collaboration is the
Split Stick. With two separate flash drives in one plastic enclosure,
it aims to reduce the amount of drives hanging on our keychains by a
good 50%.
Currently available in a 4GB-per-side
(8GB total) capacity, the Split Stick measures a scant 23 x 67mm, is
approximately 6mm thick, and weighs nine grams. Both sides use the
standard USB 2.0 interface. If you’re wondering about performance,
you’ll be hard pressed to get more than a 24MB/s read speed and an
8MB/s write speed out of either of the Split Stick’s drives, but most
users won’t need to worry too much. (See the source link for more
performance information.)
Quirky are currently charging $24.99
per ‘Stick on their
main website, and can also be bought on Amazon , though at the moment the devices only seem to be
available in black. Hopefully the company will release an updated
version featuring USB 3.0, higher capacities, more colors and extra
labeling options sometime in the near future.
(Source and photos via Gigazine)
