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Has this ever happened to you? You've just snapped some great pictures, and you want to quickly transfer them to your laptop to e-mail them to friends. But you left your camera's cable somewhere else.
SanDisk wants to make that problem go away, with an innovative new technology it rolled out at CES this year—an SD card with a pop-up USB 2.0 connector built in. The version SanDisk showed off turns a 1-gigabyte SD card into a USB memory device.
The device is deceptively simple: The SD card itself is hinged and split right in the middle. Folding the back half up 90 degrees exposes a flat, non-standard USB 2.0 connector, which can then slide into any standard USB port.
The card even includes a tiny flashing LED light that blinks when it's accessed while inserted in a USB slot. The design seems fairly robust, although only time will tell whether the hinges can withstand hundreds or thousands of flips.
SanDisk expects to ship the SB/USB combo card sometime in the first quarter of 2005, and will provide more details in February.
 News source & Pictures: PCMag.com
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