Promotional Items
Someone mentioned the demos they get while working that are all on flash drives. They get power point and full multi media presentations on a flash drive in the mail. They were wondering how cheap you can get those things in bulk. I'm sure there is quite a markup because there is really nothing to those little things but a single chip, some wire and plastic. They cannot be as cheep as a CD to print.
The advantage the flash drive has over the CD though is that it is reusable. How many times did I reuse AOL floppies When AOL went to CDs, they just got thrown away. Normally, these flash drives have the name or logo of the company that sent the promotional stuff. Maybe that will keep them on your mind in a year when you are carting your kid's little league pictures back and forth to the office.
It was a couple of years ago that I first heard of a concert where you could walk outside and buy official flash drives that contained an edited version of the concert in MP3 that you just went too. Even if you copy the MP3 off and use the drive for other stuff, the logo of the band or album was printed on the outside.
I wonder what the next step will be? MP3 clothing? oops, been done.