Ultra-small USB flash drive

Looks like it costs 1 yen... sweeet!

This is a case where miniaturization defeats its own purpose, as the design is not ergonomic -- unless the targeted consumer is given to stealing data and concealing it in a bodily orifice.

These things are getting too small for the amount of Data they store and importance they have to us. Even the regular "short" usb drives make me nervous, as do the long-ish ones.

So, why not? Don't think about attaching it to a laptop -- how about one of those upcoming iWatches or something equally small? A teensy camera, an earring with your entire music archive, Google Glass... whatever.

You guys reminded me of a conversation I had with a guy circa 1990 that Macs were "fast enough" and did not need to improve. I think we both thought that was correct, and we sure sounded smart -- to each other.

HDs were 20 megabytes and RAM was $100 a megabyte at the time. So this flash drive (if RAM) would have been approx. 320,000,000 megabytes x $100 or $32,000,000,000!

Hunter-

Things getting "better" and things getting smaller is two different things. If this is a small component of an otherwise biggish thing, like a camera, that saves space and therefore you can make your camera a little smaller, then great. But as a portable record-keeping device in its own right, too small and easy to lose, or step on, or have your cat swallow it. And as someone above said, probably harder to plug in/ unplug.

Better is ok, but we have physical limits on what we can see and handle easily.

What would be nice is a compact USB Flash storage device that allows for an additional USB device to be plugged into the opposite end. Then it wouldn't consume a port on those ultra portables.

Too easy to lose. Even with my conventional one, I tie a string to it to make it harder to misplace.

Too easy to lose.

Yep. I had this same complaint about game cartridges for the Nintendo DS. Too small, too easy to lose.

small size is fine - small enough to keep in your wallet i've had a microSD converter a little bit bigger than this in my wallet for a over a year and it's been fine - never lost it