This weekend the word about the terabyte thumb drive reached me. I don’t know how old it really is, but that’s when I first read about the people at Arizona University. The thing that bothers me the most is the angle the media has on the technology. Why thumb drives? Personally I don’t care about the thumb drive. Sure, it’s nice to have the space, but what I find most interesting is the technology and the potential it has beyond the stupid little USB devices.

Think mobile phones, media players, and cameras. This will open up a whole other level when it comes to portable media; now we just need the fuel cells to go with it. It will also make it a lot easier, money and space-wise to have large file servers at home. Or having a 1TB PVR in your TV. So why do all the articles focus on something as useless and boring as a 1TB thumb drive? I can think of a bunch of places where this technology is more interesting then a stupid thumb drive.

Tags: storage, terabyte, thumb drives, electronics, mobile devices