I heard this interesting tidbit of news on WBAL this morning. Apparently there is a computer programmer, Jerry Jalava of Finland, who lost part of his finger in a motorbike accident. When he went to the hospital for treatment, the doctors joked that they should replace his finger with a USB thumbdrive.
But the guy didn't take it as a joke.
Instead of just wearing the prosthetic finger, the computer programmer decided to embed a USB thumbdrive underneath the fingernail of the prothestic. The thumbdrive is 2Gigs, so whenever Jerry needs to transfer data, he just takes off his finger and plugs it into the USB port. When he's done, he simply pops out his finger-drive and continues on his merry way. Sounds more like a sick Halloween joke than a modern invention. But on the bright side, it brings a whole new meaning to the word "thumb drive".
If you don't believe me, you can check out Jerry's blog here.
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