IOGear has shipped a USB mouse that includes 32MB of flash storage. Pete Rojas at Gizmodo likes the idea, but I'm more excited by the idea that someone would build a mouse with a universal memory-card (Compact Flash, Memory Stick, Secure Digital, etc) reader built in — after all, these things are showing up in phones and PDAs and cameras and dictaphones; why not use the mouse's USB connection to replace yet another USB device on your desktop and in your computer? Mice are by their nature somewhat bulky, since a mouse below a certain size loses its ergonomics, which means that there's a fair bit of dead space in a mouse, and some of those universal memory readers are damned small and cheap — seems like it'd be pretty striaghtforward to stuff one into a pointing device.
(via Gizmodo)
