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Leaked Images show Anker’s MagSafe SD Card Reader that lets you Locally Back Up your iPhone Gallery

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With this one single device, Anker aims to upend cloud storage by allowing you to access and even back up your files on SD cards. Imagine not needing a laptop while shooting on a DSLR, or not needing to worry about all your iPhone photos clogging up your system. The MagGo Nano (whose alleged images were leaked on Reddit not too long ago) is Anker’s way of allowing your iPhone to interface with memory cards. A part of the MagGo series, the adapter looks sort of like the old Chromecast devices, and snaps to the back of your iPhone using MagSafe tech. A fold-out cable lets you connect the MagGo Nano to your phone (or you can even connect it to a tablet, laptop, etc.), and a flip-top presents the Nano’s card slot. Insert an SD card in and you’ve instantly got extra storage + file access.

Designer: Anker

Images of the MagGo Nano (we aren’t even sure if that’s the official name) were shared on Reddit by credible leaker ‘Joshuadwx’. The images show a pretty compact device that looks and feels just like (if not smaller than) a Chromecast device. Under the lid of the accessory, there appear to be both SD and TF card slots, offering data transfer speeds up to 312 Mbps… reportedly. The device seems to be powered by USB-C, which means it’ll be compatible with more than just iPhones (you can attach a MagSafe sticker to your Android device and use it with that too), and rumors suggest it’ll be available in three colors: white, gray and green, with a tentative price range of $30-$40.

The MagGo Nano is a boon for photographers who like the idea of being able to quickly transfer photos from cameras/drones to their phones for editing and uploading on social media. However, for the rest of us, it’s a great way to extend your phone’s storage by uploading things to an SD card. Sure, USB-C thumb drives do exist too, but there’s something much more elegant about using an SD card to take photo backups – be it from a smartphone, a professional camera, an action camera, or a drone.

Images via u/joshuadwx

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This tiny Micro SD card organizer is a blast from the 90s

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Before CDs and DVDs revolutionized physical media in the 1990s, people mostly used floppy disks — little square pucks containing less than 2.8 megabytes of storage. If you collected a lot of floppy disks, for instance, the original release of DOOM (which released across four 3.5 inch floppy disks), you needed a place to put them. Back then, that meant keeping your disk collection in a whole bunch of beige boxes with tinted plastic coverings, locked shut with a simple mechanism.

Apparently, that design — despite its relative clunkiness and odd fit for modern offices — is nostalgic to collectors of modern physical media devices like Micro SD cards and Nintendo Switch cartridges, and, as a result, independent artist Trevor Flowers has designed his own tributes to the classic floppy disk holder design. Calling it the “Smol Floppy Disk Organizer for Micro SD Cards” on his Gumroad page, this adorable replica of days gone by can fit on any desk surface thanks to its near-microscopic size.

Designer: Trevor Flowers

“Back when floppies were new we kept them safe in somewhat terrible plastic bins,” says Flowers in the description of his Micro SD card holder.

“Now that micro SD cards can hold thousands of times more data they’re what we use and what we lose! Because, smol. So, here’s a little throwback to the floppy organizer but sized for micro SD cards. I used double-sided tape to stick mine to the top of my PC monitor because I’d lose it on my messy desk.”

The Smol Floppy Disk Organizer for Micro SD Cards is available to purchase on Flowers’ official Gumroad page for $22, though it seems like supplies are limited as only 37 units remain. The same is true of his Smol Floppy Disk Organizer for Switch Cartridges, of which only 8 remain as I write this article. It’s unclear whether more will be constructed, though it’s worth noting the build is quite cute and may even have mass-market appeal for collectors.

Smol Floppy Disk Organizers aren’t the only unique retro design Flowers has come up with. On his page, you can find other bespoke (and somewhat larger) tributes to the TRS-80 Model III and the Osborne One.

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