MEMORY STICK: THE GUM-SHAPED STAR OF A FORGOTTEN TECH PLANET

A Meeting in the Circuit Desert When I first wandered into the desert of old cameras and dusty laptops, I thought all storage devices were like the ones I’d seen—shiny, loud, and eager to prove their worth. But then I spotted it: a small, rectangular shape, half-buried in sand like a forgotten piece of gum. “You’re… unusual,” I