In these days of tens of gigabytes, and maybe in the not so distant future, terabyte portable memory storage capacity, if you’ve been a consumer in the electronics market for little more than a few years it’s pretty much guaranteed that you have a desk drawer, Zip-Lock baggie or maybe even a pile dedicated to old, small capacity SD and/or MicroSD. With these leftovers from last year’s purchase seeming so small in storage capacity and so many devices utilizing USB connectivity, the temptation is to just toss them, or at the least ignore them until you just can’t find them. But determined to put yet another inexpensive USB gadget in your hands the folks over at LaCie want you to recycle them instead by using their new DataShare device.
The DataShare is a two-piece storage device that lets you create a USB flash drive out of SD and MicroSD cards. Part of their red/white, ying/yang marketing is that you can use one side of the DataShare for personal files and the other for sharing. This seems a little bit of a weak selling point, but they needed another bullet so I’ll give them this. The ability to recycle older memory cards is pretty cool though, especially at the the low cost of $9.99. There aren’t to many specs to read on this, just put the cards in either side and use, but you can read more about the DataShare here.
–Tom Milnes
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