Last week (or some time ago) our office staff were surprised by a most gorgeous present from our boss.
At first glance, I thought it was just a pretty lock for travel bags or for decoration. It was placed in a hard plastic/glass like boss, and it looks very expensive. So much so that we believed it was a free gift given to our boss and he couldn’t use so many so he had to distribute them to us.
But of cos that was not the case xD
This lock, which doubles up as a 1GB thumbdrive, can in fact decorate your bags and store data (but not protect your travel suitcases).

We got excited and went to the main Philips website. It turns out that there was many other designs available, under the section called Active Crystals. One that particularly caught my attention was this:

As a fan of multi-functional tools (see previous post on handphone cum accessory), I was quite awestruck by how pretty a USB can be. So pretty that you can even wear it out as an accessory. (Don’t you wish you could have given this as a present on V-day? With all your photos, videos and messages stored and locked away in this little heart )

And here’s another one that doubles as a handphone accessory. I’ve seen people strapping  Sony’s tiny memory USB to their handphones, but it was just a flat, rectangular piece of gadget. Not a crystal doll, like this.

(the way you use it is to insert its head into your machine since the body acts as the cover… kinda sadistic)

Besides the thumbdrives, Philips also has a section on Active Crystals headphones.

So what does this tell us? Technology is no longer for the geeks. It can be beautiful, too. Imagine our boss had given us the boring little rectangular USB – it would be ‘just another office tool’ to us. However, this particular USB, encased in a different exterior, means a whole new language to us. And you can’t get any happier when you receive a USB drive as a present the next time.