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The tiny African country Sao Tome a West African country with a population of about 150,000 located on the Guinea Gulf along the Equatoris getting into the business of creating wooden hand-made USB memory drives as part of SEED 2006, a Design and Social Economy project funded by the Portuguese Cooperation and developed by designer Pedro Alegria.

The designer, Pedro Alegria, introduced the USB flash card design to local craftsmen, all of whom had never seen or heard of such things before. The end result merges traditional “forgotten” craft with hot technology on the rise, sustaining the working families’ needs and offering unique craft-designs to the masses.

These things are really cool and I’d like to get one just for the conversation factor. On my geektastic scale from 1 to 10, I’d give these hand-made beauties a solid 7.

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