Small but large
I'm gonna take a quick break from reading subs to post something that caught my attention earlier today:
StorCard, a company chaired by one of the co-founders of Seagate, claims to be coming out with a 5GB disk drive the size and shape of a credit card, that's tough and flexible enough that you can carry it in your wallet with your other credit cards. (They also say all sorts of pie-in-the-sky stuff about this card making credit cards obsolete, and carrying your biometric data (fingerprints, etc) around on it and so on, but I don't put much credence in that.)
Each card will cost about $15; using the card requires a reader device (which will fit into a PC-card slot) which will cost about $100.
. . . Well, okay, I suspect that only the 100MB version of the card will cost $15 per card; the 5GB one will probably cost more, though I don't see any information about that. Still, this sounds too cool to be true. But PC World's article about it says the cards should be available in the second half of 2003. Mighty cool if so.