Thumbdrives for cube dwellers
Updated January 12, 2006

So you're working for a start-up, and you're banished to a cube with a decidedly nonportable desktop computer. What happens when you have to work late or on the weekends? Before you resign yourself to being in the office on Saturday or you start printing out millions of pages of reading, check out these flash thumbdrives. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand yet spacious enough to hold thousands of documents, these tiny, portable storage devices are the perfect device for ferrying documents between work and home (or even between cubes). Just drag and drop files onto the drive, then take it home and plug it in to your home PC's USB ports, and you'll have everything you need. The most basic thumbdrives simply amount to storage space, while more work-friendly drives have programs that encrypt the files, and some even offer additional protection through fingerprint scanning. Whatever you choose, relish your time away from the cube--even if you are working.