Bamboo USB stick with built-in post-its

This bamboo USB stick with built-in sticky note pad is rather lovely, for the product of two unnecessarily converged accessories, but for $30 for 2GBs and 100 notes, you'd be better off slapping a cut-in-half pad of Post-Its on any of the numerous other flash drives in your collection.

USB stick with sticky notes [Daramouse via CG]

[#1 posted by Takuan , February 5, 2009 6:59 AM]

to go with the white-out bottle holder that clips to your monitor? Is there a computer chin-dogu site out there?

[#2 posted by dculberson , February 5, 2009 7:14 AM]

I picture lots of broken USB ports in the buyers future.

[#3 posted by TJ S , February 5, 2009 7:16 AM]

Well, it is bamboo. Some research group must have gotten consumer feedback somewhere that says people are willing to pay a premium for something that's incredibly easy to grow.

[#4 posted by strider_mt2k , February 5, 2009 7:32 AM]

A gentleman's got a mem'ry stick.
A seaman's got a gaff.
And the merry men of Robin Hood
They used a quarterstaff.
On the Spanish plains inside their canes
They hide their ruddy swords.
But we make do with an old bam-boo
And everyone applauds!
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - Hey!
Me ol' bam-boo, me ol' bam-boo
You'd better never bother with me ol' bam-boo.
It's where it's at and it's USB 2
But you'd better never uninstall me ol' bam-boo!

[#5 posted by Garr , February 5, 2009 9:51 AM]

dculberson: don't worry, the USB plug breaks first. Serves the Darwin-Award-Winning User right to lose $30

[#6 posted by airship , February 5, 2009 2:05 PM]

Seems only appropriate to quote George Carlin: "If you glue two things together that have never been glued together before, some schmuck will buy it!"

[#7 posted by AirPillo , February 6, 2009 11:44 AM]

The real genius here is in taking ubiquitous and mundane objects of little worth and flipping them for a fair markup.

Objects like this make me want to start hawking such things on etsy or somesuch, cobbled together out of my useless detritus.