Boardy is a USB stick made from dead trees. Shrinking tech means that your only real physical limit to squeezing a USB drive into anything is the plug itself, and this time the Boardy folks squeezed the electronics into a sheet of paper.
The intended use is clear: schwag. That huge, foldable surface has advertising written all over it, or at least it will at the next trade show or convention you visit, so its likely that you’ll never have to buy one of your own. The paper, once the sponsor’s message is read (or ignored), is folded into a more compact and pluggable form, and midway through this transformation it looks, briefly, like a paper scorpion (above right).
We dig it, and in fact, what’s not to like? You get a free pen-drive, an origami toy and, after you tear the stick from the ad, a stack of paper perfect for propping up a wobbly bar table. Also: scorpions!
Product page [Boardy Products. Thanks, Barry!]
James May, presenter of the show Top Gear, is planning to build a house entirely out of Lego bricks. No big deal, you say. We’ve all done that. Mays is planning a little bigger, and is making a life-sized house out of the plastic bricks, including a staircase and a fully plumbed, working toilet.
