Victorinox USB drives are among the smallest and most elegant thumb drives we've seen. These models don't have knives -- they're just storage -- so you can take them safely on board a plane.
Photo: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
Deep in the bowels of the Las Vegas Convention Center last week, we found Victorinox, makers of fine folding Swiss Army knives.
They’ve made the leap into the 21st century with USB drives that form part of their knives’ complement of tools. What we didn’t expect was just how much data they’ve managed to cram into a tiny, elegant, folding package.
The Victorinox Slim is available in capacities up to 64GB. A larger model, the Slim Duo, includes two side-by-side drives for a maximum total capacity of 128GB.
Both are about as big as three or four dimes laid end to end, and fit nicely into even very cramped USB slots.
Like the Sandisk microSD card we mentioned last year, the Victorinox drives manage to cram so much data into such a tiny space by layering memory chips on top of one another inside the skinny, 1mm thick chip package that forms the heart of the drive. It’s an impressive feat of electronic engineering.
The fact that the drives have an understated Swiss Army knife design is pretty nice, too.
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