Emailing "Bamboo: Coming Soon to a Promotional USB Stick Near You"
Is this what the future of green IT holds? Grafting eco-friendly wood onto every device imaginable? At this rate you'll soon have to watch for splinters when you set up that new server.
Bamboo is a pricey option on
Dell's sleek new Studio Hybrid desktop and [re]drive uses it for tasteful effect on its
external drive, and now MemoTrek is selling USB drives sheathed in the stuff with capacities of up to 8GB.
MemoTrek explains:
This unique wooden USB flash drive makes the perfect synthesis of traditional Eastern values blending seamlessly in with modern state of the art technology. The eco-friendly bamboo casing holds a high-capacity NAND flash memory ready to securely store your company's sales presentation or link to your website.
With the harmonic union of bamboo, reflecting old and traditional Asian values, and the high-speed USB flash memory representing cutting-edge modern day high-technology this beautifully carved and simplistic designed USB flash drive sets out to form the very Ying and Yang of today's promotional gift ideas.
Riiiight.
[via
SlashGear]