February 12th, 2006
Stash Something in Your PCMCIA Slot with StashCard
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Most of the laptops I use come fully loaded, so their PCMCIA slots lie unused. Here’s a way to use them: the StashCard. It’s pretty cheap, at $9.95 direct from the site or CompUSA.
I guess the idea is kind of like a money belt. Because of the thinness of a PCMCIA card, obviously you can’t stick anything thick in it. You can put money, spare SD cards, stuff like that in it. But don’t miss the warning that’s shipped inside the StashCard: Warning: The inside of your computer gets hot. Never put granular or liquid items into your StashCard that may melt or otherwise leak. Not that I would put, ahem, sugar or Equal in there or anything. 
We Say: I’m not sure how well this really would work for storing money, since I would tend to think if someone wanted to steal something from you, taking the whole laptop would be something they might tend to do … aside from that, I’m not really sure I can think of any really good uses because of the thinness of it.
David Johnston says:
Storing memory cards does seem like it’d be a useful application for this thing, but I wouldn’t put money or a credit card in there.
February 12th, 2006 at 10:56 am
Benjamin Van Hoesen says:
Agreed. Memory cards are a great thing to store in this. I hate having to have yet another thing floating around in my laptop backup and this would help store a couple SD cards away until I needed them.
February 12th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Alice says:
Would they heat up?
February 12th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Jason says:
It’s obvious, really: YOU PUT YOUR WEED IN THERE!!!
February 12th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Jacob P. says:
Looks like it would hold 2 Trojans nicely.
February 12th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
David Johnston says:
Jacob, I hope you have some good antivirus software
February 12th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Tris Hussey says:
I think the SD card use is a great one. Condom? No way … heat makes them break down really, really fast.
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