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Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by cherioo »

pmjordan wrote: post #5
Mithaldu wrote: post #3

I don't get it. How the hell do i put this in my computer? The second image block implies not the usb port. And even if it were to be put there, i wouldn't want to put glue in there, and have no idea how a thin sheet of material is supposed to maintain contact. Maybe i need a special drive for it? Note, i don't actually care for the answers at this point, just wanted to lay out for the guys who made the page how its…

It seems that they're all stuck on an "optical data transfer surface", whatever that's supposed to be. I'm guessing this is just a visual design study, not an end-to-end product design. (Seems to me a workable solution might involve Bluetooth LE - good luck filling a 32GB drive that way though - I estimate it'll take you about 11 days) Of course, you could store just some cryptographic keys and unique file IDs on a s…

The second approach sounds almost doable with the NFC technology. I wonder how small/thin a NFC tag can be built today.

Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by pmjordan »

cherioo wrote: post #32
pmjordan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems that they're all stuck on an "optical data transfer surface", whatever that's supposed to be. I'm guessing this is just a visual design study, not an end-to-end product design. (Seems to me a workable solution might involve Bluetooth LE - good luck filling a 32GB drive that way though - I estimate it'll take you about 11 days) Of course, you could store just some cryptographic keys and unique file IDs on a s…

The second approach sounds almost doable with the NFC technology. I wonder how small/thin a NFC tag can be built today.

Yeah, I haven't been following the NFC stuff - ubiquitous NFC tags have been "just around the corner" for a few years now.

The thing is, if you're going to require an internet connection to make the little tabs work at all, you may as well just do it all online in a pure cloud service in the first place…

Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by proksoup »

This is actually totally possible with qr codes.

(1) Print 100 qr code stickers that go to unique urls on a web service (2) web service serves "upload form" on first render (or enter url form, whatever the user wants to "save"). (3) web service redirects to file download (or url) on all subsequent visits, no longer allowing upload.

Sticky data you can put inside a book and retrieve later by scanning (or typing in the url, which was also printed on the sticker cause no one will actually use QR codes).

Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by proksoup »

proksoup wrote: post #36

This is actually totally possible with qr codes. (1) Print 100 qr code stickers that go to unique urls on a web service (2) web service serves "upload form" on first render (or enter url form, whatever the user wants to "save"). (3) web service redirects to file download (or url) on all subsequent visits, no longer allowing upload. Sticky data you can put inside a book and retrieve later by scanning (or typing in the…

I actually built a business trying to sell these --- but couldn't explain the concept to anyone ... and slowly realized that not being able to explain a concept means it might not be such a hot concept.

Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by HCIdivision17 »

wmf wrote: post #18
HCIdivision17 wrote: post #13

Is there any graphene prototype that suggests this could be sold in the near future (next couple years)?

I wasn't previously aware of it, but apparently non-volatile graphene storage is indeed a topic of research: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl101902k http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn3059136 I would assume it's over a decade out, though.

Thanks, especially for the link to a paper that doesn't need payment. I'm looking forward to reading it over lunch!

Re: DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes

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Post by proksoup »

chrisfarms wrote: post #29

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…

QR code stickers would be disposable.

And can do the same thing, associate data. Generate unique urls that go to a web service that allows "mapping".

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