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Colin Dunstan · 01-03-2006, 06:21 PM

Judging by its name, you'd think the Lexar JumpDrive Mercury was a futuristic fever thermometer that you could stick in a spare USB port to check your computer's health. Dead wrong. It's just an unflatteringly boring 1GB-to-2GB USB stick, except for this novelty: it uses E Ink-technology to feature a unique on-board storage capacity meter. As you probably know, E Ink is paper-thin, low-power and readable even in difficult conditions such as direct sunlight. It's also the technology we've been waiting for such a dreadfully long time to emerge in the e-book market. Enough, I think I'm going to cry.

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01-03-2006, 06:21 PM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Lexar JumpDrive Mercury uses E Ink technology Judging by its name, you'd think the Lexar JumpDrive Mercury was a futuristic fever thermometer that you could stick in a spare USB port to check your computer's health. Dead wrong. It's just an unflatteringly boring 1GB-to-2GB USB stick, except for this novelty: it uses E Ink-technology to feature a unique on-board storage capacity meter. As you probably know, E Ink is paper-thin, low-power and readable even in difficult conditions such as direct sunlight. It's also the technology we've been waiting for such a dreadfully long time to emerge in the e-book market. Enough, I think I'm going to cry. [via Gizmodo]