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Matt Hickey
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January 4, 2007
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Believe it or not, but a co-worker of mine actually ran into problems at the airport with a leather-wrapped USB stick, which is longer and with a smaller leather-cap than in the picture above. Apparently airport officials thought it looked too much like a snap-out knife that was dangling from his key-chain as he grabbed it from the container after going through the security check-point. Eventually they let him go with it, but not after looking at it with three people to figure out if somehow this USB stick would transform into a deadly leather-wrapped weapon.
My advice is, if you are a frequent flyer, stick with the basic openly geeky tools, at least then nobody will treat you like a terrorist! ;-)
Sales are slow? Wrap it in leather and double the price… guaranteed to sell out! I bet this is what the “brown” zune was after but they couldn’t cough up the extra $$$, or, mmm… additional market loss leader debts, to pull it off.
Talking about hedonism… when is your next party Matt? Be sure to send me an invitation will ya! ;-)
Jon
Leather is better? Airport security will always be an issue; maybe they should have a geek on call at major checkpoints to help identify usable technology. Of course a government geek only has two options – military that thinks your eyeglasses are actually ear-mounted lasers or the beauracrat that thinks leading edge tech is carrying a mag tape instead of a deck of punched cards (put that in their for Paul T’ pleasure ;) )
i saw some similar leather drives for pretty cheap…i guess not all of them are jackin the price just because it’s leather: http://www.leatherusbdrive.com. haha, even a “fitting” web address
what about the price of usb drive leather 512 mb & 1 gb ?
waiting for your reply…
thanks
ALI