At CeBIT, Pretec unveiled its patented i-Disk Diamond series flash drive. It's an innovation of sorts since it uses RFID and USB together and what makes it a thing to watch for is its size - 45.7×12.2×2.2mm which will help it in earning a spot among some of the smallest devices in the world. It can be used in case of systems requiring digital mass storage and easy identification.

You can access the data remotely using an RFID reader or just plug it into the USB port. The storage capacity ranges from 128 MB to 1GB. The card is quarter the size of standard usb flash drive and you can deploy the i-Disk in a number of areas from warehouses to airports to hospitals to POS systems for inventory management or access control. It could serve ideally in industrial applications, personal identification or even as a replacement for floppy. It is expected to go for mass production in the second quarter of 2007. With a lot of storage space probably we will see a number of applications in other arenas too.

Via Gizmodo