by Arieh O’Sullivan
The Disk on Key. Popularly known as a flash drive, it comes in many shapes and sizes but they are all “data in your pocket” and another one of those modern necessities we can’t imagine living without.
It all began more than a decade ago when an Israeli scientist couldn’t get a PowerPoint presentation off of his crashed lap top and began thinking of a way to transfer digital data easily. When it came out in 2000, Disk on Key could hold eight megabytes of memory. The latest one can store a whopping 64 gigabytes.
It’s another example of some of the inventions produced by the ever-churning minds of Israelis, who have been the source of so many high tech inventions. A new exhibit at the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem not only puts them on display but attempts to discover just how they do it.
“The number of patents originating here per capita is a world record and we wanted to expose the general public to these products and also to tell what happens in Israel that allows the flowering of technological developments,” Varda Gur Ben-Shitrit, curator of the museum’s “Innovation, Inc.” exhibition, told The Media Line.
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