20 most worthless pieces of junk: #14 -- Giveaway thumb drives

Attend enough conferences, grand openings and midnight releases and you'll come to know one of the most useless pieces of junk I know of; free thumbdrives. When thumb drives first entered the corporate and customer swag world, a free 128MB thumbdrive was the coolest thing in the world. It held 80 times what a floppy disk used to and fit neatly in one's pocket.

The free thumbdrive was at one time the hippest piece of plastic you could attach a corporate logo to, but now the only practical uses I've found for my thumbdrives is to steady a shaky table or prop open an automatically locking door.