Latest in “Green” technology: The Recycled Cardboard USB Flash Drive

Just when you though technology had hit a temporary roadblock or wall in regards to “green/eco-friendly” technology, designer and forward thinker Colin Garceau-Tremblay would like to remind you that we still have a ways to go before reaching that wall. Introducing the “Recycled Cardboard USB Flash Drive.” As the name clearly depicts, this drive, if ever materializing into a real object, would be fabricated out of completely recyclable cardboard making the impact on the evironment as miniscule as you could probably get with an electronic gadget. The fact that corrugated cardboard can be waterproof and fireproof just proves the truly unique and beneficial properties such a device would have. Further helping the green movement is the ability to easily switch out “parts”. We all know that our now steller 32GB flash drive will be allocated to desk drawer duty once the next gen 128GB flash drives come out. Instead of remaking millions of flash drive cases from bambi killing plastic, why not just by the bare storage chip itself and install in your cardboard case at home? I for one hope that someone with deep enough pockets will pick up this idea and run with it. What do you think? Yay or nay?

Source: Geeky-Gadgets, Packing UQAM, Unplugged