USB Memory Stick Flashes Its Memory Status with Colored Light
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Drawing inspiration from Japanese Soma-Toh or a revolving lantern, which displays a colored silhouette, designer Mac Funamizu has devised a transparent USB memory stick that illuminates to indicate the data saved, or space available for that matter, within. Synced with the icon on your desktop, the flashy pen drive distinguishes data with different colors, such as pink for images, blue for documents and green for movies. The memory stick, when translucent, indicates the availability of storage space within, while on the other hand, the glass flashing with light signifies unavailability of data space, so you could scan it to fill or remove data without going through its memory status on your system.
Source: Thedesignblog.org
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Reader's Comments
Like a lot of the other designs on this site, that’s already been done before…many times over in fact. The Lexar “JumpDrive Mercury” being one of the best designs I’ve seen.
There’s also lots of others, that, while they don’t indicate how full the drive is, they come with a variety of colorful LEDs to indicate file transfers and sometimes just to “look cool”.
There is ~one~ design that’s similar to this idea that has yet to be actually created, which is the “FlashBag” concept. It’s a bit silly though. Basically it involves a USB drive that inflates and deflates itself depending on how much is stored on the device.
It likely won’t ever actually be produced, primarily because of certain technological limitations, as far as being able to create such a tiny air-intake/deflation system. That, coupled with the fact that it’s not really very practical since the whole idea of Flash Drives is to store data in a *SMALL* space, not a larger one. So having a device that gets bigger with more data would be cumbersome to most.
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