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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Boone Pickens plan, which states that using all the wind power capacity from northern Texas to the Canadian border would produce AS MUCH AS 20%. Topics: Wind , Energy efficiency Tags: IBM , smart grid , Denmark Share: Digg Del.icio.us

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