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Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by Brakenshire »

salehenrahman wrote: post #9

tl:dr; there is a surface (called ODTS) that you stick the drives to. The surface itself connects to your computer via USB, and its through that the drives' content can be browsed. Not a bad concept. I just fear that the adhesive might not last very long. Unless, if it uses another form of adhesion, such as magnets.

You could use Van Der Waal adhesion, like Gecko feet, we might as well throw it in. Although changing the adhesive will undermine the technology proposal, after all 'The special conductive adhesive that sticks the dataSTICKIES to the ODTS is the medium that transfers the data.'

It's both optical, and conducts data via some plastic adhesive. You can't say they haven't thought things through.

Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by slovette »

I know the general conception on here is this crap, but I disagree. I think a version of this is exactly where we are heading. It's useful, simple, minimalistic and I could definitely see all of my college colleagues keeping there most recent project on a data-sticky in their notebooks on the page with all the project notes. This concept is most definitely where we are headed. Development needs to be correct and something manufacturers build with congruity (like the USB standard), but a measure of this is most certainly going to happen.

Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by diydsp »

A fantastic example of projecting our fears and anxieties...

(we all wait in fear of how powerful, potent or dense each new material technology can be)

(we all fear that our world is not easy or colorful enough)

(we all fear that we missed out on something profound and sweeping)

(we all fear that we're being lied to)

(we all fear that others will lie to the ones we love ( and that we'll have to fix their windows 8 at christmas ) )

Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by Semiapies »

alphakappa wrote: post #16

There's nothing to indicate that this is a real product. There's no information about availability, and given how everything is just a bunch of slides, I think this is more of a design exercise than a real product.

It looks like a particularly good design semester project, yes.

Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by chrisfarms »

Ok so ignoring the fact that this relies on magic...

I think there is something to using physical locations to keep references to files. I can remember the shelf that I stored a notebook and the rough location in the notebook of a sketch for a project from 2005. I can't say the same about my filesystems even with the help of "cloud" services of more recent years.

Our brains are definitely wired to get clues from lots of context, and just sitting at a similarly layed out UI doesn't take advantage of that.

So drop the crazy magic... add rfid tags to the stickys ... replace the optical(??) strip thing with an rfid reader that just maps the stickies to my cloud files, and that might be relatively useful.... pretty sure rfids aren't quite disposable yet though.

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