...and you thought your country had it tough

[Paul Keith]

Last night, BlizzHackrei of TipidPC (source) plugged in a 2GB CD-R King USB flash drive to his PC and got a "USB Not Recognized" notification.

After a few failed attempts to make the thing work, he decided to crack open the disk to see what's wrong. Expecting to see the usual USB chipset, BlizzHackrei got dazed with what he saw inside:

Three guesses what it is. Give up? Look at the title below.

USB Flash Disk Bought at CDR-King Cracked Open, Board with MicroSD Card Sees Light, Shocks Owner ?!

from TechPinas

[steeladept]

Alas, this is nothing new per se, it is just usually you know about it and there is a slot to change it out for you.  It isn't usually just encased as it is here.

[tomos]

totally off-topic:

interesting to learn about Taglish at that link:

BOOM ako dun.. sabi ko baket ganito ito? then binuksan ko yung Kingston Flashdrive ko na 4gb to compare the components at puro chipsets lang ang nakita ko sa Kingston 4gb Flashdrive ko.

pero yung 2gb microSD na nakalagay dun sa flashdrive na CDRKING ko gumagana pa sa mga CP kaya hindi WASTED yung Memory nung flashdrive, only the reader itself lang.

nagkaroon pa ko ng 2gb microSD ng wala sa oras na pwede ko gamitin sa CP kaso generic lang ito for sure. hehehehe!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taglish [the Philippine language Tagalog ... infused with American English]

[Paul Keith]

@tomos

You may also find this related word to be just as interesting:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Flippish

Flippish

(noun)One who imitates the comedy antics and catch phrases of Phil. (adj) One who has the ability to imitate Phil. (verb) To imitate the comdey antics of Phil and to repeat his catch phrases profusely.

(1)Joe: Hey Dion listen to this, "Hey Dion, stop being such a shotty hoebag. Quit it Maxi!"

Dion: HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Phil: Joe stop being Flippish