USB is used as a synonym for a universal connection, so designers envisioned rings to know if people are suited to each other, if they are really compatible, or to know how long it will last! Synchronizing via USB, transforming the shape of the device can lead to a multitude of concepts. Customized USB devices have gone beyond imagination, such as the USB pregnancy test that combines both your digital data to your bio data, a very sexy trend, however it was only an April fool… People also flirt with the idea of a USB key which size changes depending on the data it contains. Pretty neat! Will it ever blow up when it reaches its limits? How to represent the type of data it contains? Does it complain when it is out of data? However all these neat design sketches are exclusively at the level of concepts.
It is still possible to customize your device in any ways you want. There is a company that offers Personalized jump drive: to create your USB sketches in any color or material you can think of: if you want a USB carrot, it is probably possible. Apparently the company accepts any request. You never have enough USB keys in your bag and imagine if you could possess the USB key of your dreams! I am not sure how they offer to harvest the USB power pin to power up an external device, but they might, after all there is a USB key that exists exclusively to recharge alcaline batteries!
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
What can you make with your USB key?
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Data managment
Dialog 05 creates objects between analog and digital. USB is nowadays often used as a synonym for a universal connection. Originally only used by computer experts, this former high-tech standard has developed into an every-day item and low-tech symbol for universal connections.
Dialog 05 used the interface standard to envision scenario for data management. I selected my favorite ones as they seem to belong to a USB sub-culture!
plastic, steel and glass. where should the data go? an icon regains its physical form.
Eternal love
are we suited to one another? are we really compatible? how long will it last? it’s all about give and take – synchronize!
Memory box
a snapshot from summer
your favorite gig, your first time or your last flirtation. do you want to click through your memories or bury them?
Dialers and non dialers
for the non-dialling generation, it’s a trip into the past – for those born earlier, it’s a trip down memory lane.
no access for unauthorized persons.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
The mix tape business
A come back for the mix tape business. After the tape with style we have the regular tape packaging that hides a usb key.
My favorite part is the usb mix tape's advertisement:
Stores up to 1 hour of high quality digital music - the same amount as you get on a C60 cassette tape. Perfect for creating your own unique compilation or mix ‘tape’. When you have 60 minutes you have to think carefully about what you are going to put on there!
Is the idea that by constraining the potential of a product, users will carefully consider the potential being given? This is a bit sad.
Or is the idea that this product is super conceptual and needs to offer the same amount of 60 minutes of music that is usual in C60 cassette tapes? In that case there is a nostalgic connection, but no innovation. At the end I like the metaphor effort in it, but I prefer the possibility to uniquely tailor my tape with style. The tailoring of the tape could take advantage of online digital art communities such as Open Studio!
A link to cool looking cassette tapes.
By Architectradure
Monday, February 05, 2007
A usb key that can blow up
There is a tone of usb keys that are invented now. I chose this one for its potential to blow up.
The idea behind this usb key is that the size of the device changes depending on the data it contains. My main question is can the usb key actually blow up if there are too many data?
Made by Dima Komissarov.
