What's going on with small memory drives?

An interesting introduction column about U3 drives, how they work and the differences between U3 drives and "norma" USB drives.

"There are reasons to be quite rhapsodic about this new offering, because it really does free a lot of traveling businessfolks and academics from dragging along a heavy laptop when they can carry their programs and data in a half-ounce stick the size of a chewing gum pack.

If you just want a memory card, however, the auto play feature that comes with the drives can be a royal pain in one's U3. So here are a couple of fixes:

Hold down the Shift key when the stick is plugged into the USB port, and the U3 programs won't appear..."