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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 e
by pmjordan 13y ago
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 small, low-throughput drive in a form factor like this, and link it into a cloud storage service. That would at least approach making practical sense.
- cherioo 13y agoThe second approach sounds almost doable with the NFC technology. I wonder how small/thin a NFC tag can be built today.
- pmjordan 13y agoYeah, 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…