SanDisk Cruzer Edge
As someone who's famous for finding lost objects, I know that a portable technology has spread to the masses when I find one in the street out walking, or cycling. First CD? Lafayette, Louisiana, 1992. First cell phone? Tyler, Texas, 1995. And first flash drive: Urbana, Illinois, 2005.
It's most unlikely that my first was a gigabyte drive; it was probably a 128- or 256-megabyte device -- those were the days when 250-GB hard drives were considered huge. We've come a long way: a quick search of my desk and laptop bag turned up six flash drives, ranging from 1 to 32 gigabytes. My most recent acquisition is a brand new 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Edge I picked up for maybe five bucks. I'm not sure, though, that it was worth the fin.
