Swiss Army Knives with SSD and Flash Drives

It seems that Victorinox is not happy to settle for making some of the most coolest (if impractical) multipurpose knives, but also want to make some of the coolest (if also a tad impractical) flash drives! They just announced Victorinox is a 256GB flash drive with a USB 2.0 / eSATA combo interface. Victorinox claims it is the smallest "Solid State Drive" in the world and it certainly is awfully darn small for such a big flash drive... but we don't know if we would go as far as saying it is the smallest or not! Sadly, while it is an eSATA enabled device (as well as USB 2.0) the performance specifications of this drive are also small. Victorinox claims it is only capable of 100MB/s reads and a down right anemic 35MB/s write speed. This really is one of the few times we are glad a drive is NOT SuperSpeed USB enabled as USB 3.0 would be wasted on this poor performer.
While the ultra small size coupled with ultra LARGE storage capacity is certainly nice to see, what really sets this apart from the typical flash drive is the inclusion of a small 96 x 48 pixel monochrome e-ink display for personalization! Even better still is the fact that you can fully customize exactly what is and is not displayed on this itty-bitty display. Victorinox Secure SSD includes some examples such as displaying your "Documents information's, Drive information's, folder structures, backup information's, graphics and others." but we are sure that your imagination is going to be the real limiter. Throw in free backup and synchronization software and Victorinox may just have a funky winner on their hands. Though it really is shame that the performance of this drive is lacking. There is no word on pricing or availability, but we are sure the 256GB version will be uber pricey but available pretty soon.