Man turns finger into storage

The line between man and machine is now slightly more blurry, thanks to one Finnish bloke’s decision to replace a missing digit with a USB Flash drive. USB_finger_bloke_01 Jerry Jalava's prosthetic finger hides a USB Flash drive inside Jerry Jalava, a software developer from Helsinki, had the top part of his finger …

[M]

Apologies to Baldrick

His little false USB finger looks like a willy. Which is ironic, because my willy looks like a little USB finger.

[Anonymous Coward]

ackward...

Love to see him trying to use it with an older machine with no front-panel USB ports. Or a rack-mount server and a KVM.

[Anonymous Coward]

OK

I know this is the "digit"al age and all that. But am I the only one wondering which appendage will be the next to get "digit"ised. Guess it should first be "Bobbit"ised.

There was an old article about artificial testicular transplants, which rounded off the subject with "these are more ornamental than functional". I feel said implants can now be made functional - maybe for data storage. Or perhaps stick a processor in and include it in the "cloud". Or probably as a spare charger for your mobile. Whatever floats your boat...

[Martyn]

taking it too far

brings a whole new meaning to the term thumb drive now doesnt it

[John]

awkward?

I'm sure i won't be the only one to point this out, but won't it be a little awkward to type with one finger of one hand stuck in a USB port?

[steogede]

Thumb drive

On a more serious not - I Personally, would have gone for a miniature bluetooth optical mouse, but that would probably required more to be amputated - it would have the advantage that it could glow like ET's.

Having a finger in the USB slot must make typing rather tricky.

[Anonymous Coward]

where did he buy it...

...a joke shop?? That better not be the best 21st century prosthetics can do!

[LaeMi Qian]

Seems inconvenient to use.

Loose the use of one hand while accessing data. And don't sneeze in the middle of a save.

Why not just stick a stick behind the ear now we have all stopped smoking and using pencils?

Or find a convenient orifice (keep the lanyard on or a trip to the ear/nose/throat specialist or the proctologist may be in order).

As the girl in Running Man said when asked where she smuggled the data tape: "None of your business"

[Cameron Colley]

Nothing to see here.

He stores a small USB memory stick in something he puts over his finger-stump -- so either he types one-handed or it can be removed, so it's hardly part of his body.

What he needs is a inbuilt WiFi detector with a red LED that flashes faster as the signal becomes stronger -- that would have me reaching for the hatchet.

[Anonymous Coward]

MMMM

Does this mean he's gone digit-al?

[Charlie Barnes]

Well...

That's handy... Thumbs up for this idea... Brings a whole new meaning to fingering a host...

[Allan Rutland]

Am I missing the...

WHY?!

[Simon Williams]

Life imitates Trek

Everything from Star Trek gets here eventually -- usually sooner than you expect. Didn't Data have a lot of controls and probably positronic storage, under a fingernail?

[Pyros]

Betcha

that he can now give the finger to RIAA with all those ripped MP3 on board!

(Really, that's the best joke I can come up that doesn't involve "fondling.")

[storng.bare.durid]

Gives new meaning to...

...byting ones nails?

[Wokstation]

Pull my finger!

Fnar, fnar...

[Martin H Watson]

Only 2Gb...?

Surely he needs double-digit storage?

[Dr Patrick J R Harkin]

For pity's sake....

Don't let Wacqui Jacqui see this!

[Rosco]

So ...

is it indexed?

[Skizz]

For God's sake...

don't let Kevin "I'm a cyborg media tart" Warwick see this.

Paris - well, fingers, Paris, need I say more?

[Lloyd]

Pah

Been there and done that, I stuffed a Sony memory stick down my japs eye.

[Tim Schomer]

@where did he buy it...

What do you expect, He's a SOFTWARE developer. If he'd been a hardware engineer it'd probably be at least 16GB and embedded in the stump.

Paris 'cos she knows the difference between hard & soft....

[Anonymous Coward]

"Man turns finger into storage"?

What about "Man gives portable storage the finger", etc...etc..

El Reg, must have been having an 'off' day with their (normally snappy) article titling.

[Steve]

could have been worse

Imagine the equivalent of this if something 'more sensitive' than a finger was ripped off, something around the groin area...

I have visions of a bloke 'interfacing' to his laptop saying "I'm downloading" !

[Stevie]

Bah

We *have* to get this bloke and Captain Cyborg together in a room.