A fashion accessory for techies, trekkies, multi-taskers, spies, survivalists, climate change refugees, folks on the run from the Zombie apocalypse, and gray-haired hipsters sliding down the gentle slope towards death and scattering memories behind them along the way.
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| Back |
These flash drive earrings (aka jump drive earrings, memory stick earrings) hold 8 GB of storage each, for a combined total of 16 GB; more than enough to store copies of your current projects, all of your vital info (including scans of your passport, license, etc.), and anything other random memories you'd like to transport.
For comparison's sake, one of the early Apple computers, the Lisa (1983), had just 5 MB of hard drive memory and the Mac Classic (1990) had just 40 MB. These earrings have 3,277 times more storage than the Lisa and 400 times more storage than the Mac Classic.
The Japanese calligraphy reads "cherish memory" on the front of the earrings, with two different styles of calligraphy used for left and right earrings. The calligraphy simply reads "memory" on the back of the earrings.
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| Back (left) "memory"; front (right) "cherish memory" |
Materials for the earrings include vintage typewriter shift keys (the black disks at the top), pop-top tabs, paper printouts of Japanese calligraphy (downloaded from the Web, images then inverted to produce white on black), and two SanDisk 8GB flash drives. Total cost: less than $15 for the pair.
Make your own flash drive earrings out of bits of broken jewelry, random scraps, and apt images or print, and never worry about forgetting anything again.
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