Finn fits finger with USB storage

File under, um, a little bit ingenious and a little bit creepy.

Recently a Finnish computer programmer lost one of his fingers in a motorcycle wreck, so he did what any geek would probably at least consider: He fashioned a prosthetic digit with an embedded USB flash drive.

This one's not a thumbdrive... it's a ring finger drive.

The USB connector is accessed by peeling back the rubberized "nail," and the "finger" can come off his hand completely, so he can use his other nine fingers to type while his USB digit remains connected to a computer.

And Jerry Jalava says he's not done: "I'm planning to use another prosthetic as a shell for the next version, which will have removable fingertip and RFID tag."

In related news, a Canadian documentary filmmaker who lost an eye as a child said last week he was planning on fitting his eye socket with a prosthetic eye with an embedded camera, so he could "secretly record people for a project commenting on the global spread of surveillance cameras."

These innovations are all great, but who will up the ante? Personally, I'm saving space in this blog for the first guy to come up with a Bluetooth tooth. Get busy, hackers!