This really brings out my Inner GeekGrrl.

I've never been what you'd call seriously into technology. Geekier than average, yes; not totally without skills. But I'm definitely on the more prosaic end of the scale (although I do have friends who are absolutely poetic — indeed, even mythic — in their geekdom).

However, this little device makes even me break out into a tense sweat of covetousness and geekout. I'm older than I look, and I remember external 10MB hard drives that were as big as two or three major metropolitan phone books stacked up. We thought we were gods, I tell you — gods! To see 8GB (in other words, about 2,400 phone books, bulk-wise) packed into something the size of a thumbnail (not to mention for sale at what looks to me like a reasonable price) just spins my brain around in several different dimensions.