Desktop Pipeline | Take It All With You: Two 'Smart' USB Drives: This little hard drives folks carry around on their keychains and pockets (AKA thumb drives or dongles around these parts) are getting smarter. These new ones allow you to carry your data AND the programs (tools) you manipulate them with...plug in to any USB computer and you can work like you do you your home computer.
Imagine being able to take your favorite weblogging or writing software with you and being able to use it to publish from any machine you can find...Radio Userland, or OPML Editor, or NetNewswire, or MS Word. Or running an update of your RSS News Aggregator...Radio Userland, NetNewswire, etc....and then sticking it in your pocket to read wherever the next computer kiosk or friends home computer presents itself. Truly portable and transportable reporting. I think of also being able to plug this thing into a smart phone / networked PDA to enable extremely portable, fully networked access for the programs running on these drives.
Put a blogging, podcasting, aggregator app on these and I'll try one out...the U3 sounds especially appealing at 30 bucks to try out a 256 MB version....I'd probably start with the $100 1GB just to make it really usable as just a regular old dumb portable USB hard drive.