I love this idea to make this origami USB stick “Boardy” with recycle paper. The designer is really smart because besides promoting recycle, the board can be used for advertising campaigns to print the information of products or services. Your potential customers won’t throw it away after reading it because it is an USB stick. So, they will keep it and you will be surprised to see them return to you one day.


Boardy is a USB stick made from dead trees. Shrinking tech means that your only real physical limit to squeezing a USB drive into anything is the plug itself, and this time the Boardy folks squeezed the electronics into a sheet of paper.

The intended use is clear: schwag. That huge, foldable surface has advertising written all over it, or at least it will at the next trade show or convention you visit, so its likely that you’ll never have to buy one of your own. The paper, once the sponsor’s message is read (or ignored), is folded into a more compact and pluggable form, and midway through this transformation it looks, briefly, like a paper scorpion.


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