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Malicious USB devices are fairly common, and this certainly has the 'right' form factor.
There's a reason 'do not plug in a USB drive you have found in the parking lot' is reiterated in every corp security training.
For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite. Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy get…
Remember when the future was each AA battery having its own thumb destroying built-in tester? Imagine AA batteries with little LCD screens.
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That keyboard definitely had wow factor for me when it came out. It was like: wow this is overkill... but it looks so nice with custom layouts that match the games.
I think they’d be functionally useless for my daily driver, but a keyboard that shows contextual hot keys to an app I’m learning (photoshop, blender, etc) would be a game changer.
I really want a little USB drive with an eink display on it so I can set a label for each of my drives
https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/electronic-shelf-label.html
What's stopping this thing from keylogging or inserting keystrokes? Malicious USB devices are fairly common, and this certainly has the 'right' form factor. There's a reason 'do not plug in a USB drive you have found in the parking lot' is reiterated in every corp security training.
As for inserting keystrokes, that will be obvious if it enumerates as a keyboard.
You should turn down your paranoia a little more.
For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite. Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy get…
Reminds me of the short-lived Windows SideShow display on a few laptops (~2003): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SideShow
I remember working on the host software for a thing similar to the display we're discussing around ... 2012.
It never went into manufacturing though. Some combination of Win 7 dropping sideshow and ... some widget feature we also mirrored.
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> For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. Like this? https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/new-ddr5-modu...
On an SSD or HDD, it would occasionally be useful to have an eink display that indicates faults, wear, and thousands of hours operated. Maybe also show the drive label and something about the partition table, although that requires inspecting the storage contents. I wouldn't pay much more for that, though, and I don't know how many people would pay any premium at all.
Really wish they'd include a real life image of the display though. Article author acknowledges this, but still...substantially detracts usefulness of write-up
>Not an actual photo, as I could not find any with the display connected to a host
"it’s USB so it can also suddenly change into a keyboard and inject keystrokes to steal your files and upload them "