Trek 2000 International, the inventor of the ThumbDrive, has unveiled the FluCard.
The FluCard, which assumes the form factor of the Secure Digital (SD) card, is an intelligent, wirelessly-enabled insert-and-play device that can transfer information wirelessly on a peer-to-peer basis or among a community of FluCard users through their equipment, which can either be a digital camera, photo frame, television or laptop so long as their equipment have SDIOs or SD Card host slots through which the FluCard can be inserted to operate.
Toshiba, a significant shareholder of Trek, has also announced that it will appoint Trek as its OEM manufacturer for the FluCard and will be working closely with Trek to mutually support each other in its product development efforts.
Toshiba will also lead the formation of a consortium to support the distribution of the FluCard and oversee the intellectual property protection over this new invention. The consortium members will comprise the world’s leading photographic equipment manufacturers from Japan and their names will be announced in due course.
Trek and Toshiba will be officially launching the FluCard in Japan in February. The first batch of sales should start from 2Q.
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