Let’s Hope These Eraser Flash Drives Don’t Erase Your Data

I’ve seen USB flash drives crammed into all sorts of things over the years, but there’s something just so wrong it’s right about these flash drives stuck inside of pink rubber erasers.

eraser flash drive

They’re made by Etsy seller JustJest, and neatly mounted inside of those iconic Pink Pearl erasers we all used in school at some point or another. As I mentioned in the headline, my only concern would be that actually rubbing the eraser on paper would eventually wear it down to the circuitry inside and start messing with your actual data. Of course, you probably wouldn’t ever use it as an eraser. And it’s not likely that you’ll get too much use out of it as a storage device either, since it only comes in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB versions.

Still, it’s a cool design, and I’d own one just to see what people said when I pulled it out to use it. The 2GB version is selling for $20(USD) right now, while you’ll need to contact JustJest for other memory sizes.


Cornell students build spider-like robotic chalkboard eraser out of Lego, magnets, fun (video)

Robotic Eraser

While you were trying to pass Poetry 101, Cornell seniors Le Zhang and Michael Lathrop were creating an apple-polishing Lego robot that automatically erases your prof’s chalkboard. A final class project, the toady mech uses an Atmel brain, accelerometers for direction control, microswitches to sense the edge of the board, magnets to stay attached and hot glue to keep the Lego from flying apart. As the video below the break shows, it first aligns itself vertically, then moves to the top of the board, commencing the chalk sweeping and turning 180 degrees each time its bumpers sense the edge. The duo are thinking of getting a patent, and a commercialized version would allow your teacher to drone on without the normal slate-clearing pause. So, if designing a clever bot and saving their prof from manual labor doesn’t get the students an ‘A’, we don’t know what will.

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