Thumb drives launch apps, media players

Another good idea coming out of CES: run full applications from USB thumb drives. With capacities climbing and prices dropping, combined with the speed of USB 2.0, thumb drives are becoming an ideal portable computing environment--just plug the drive into the nearest convenient PC and compute away. Store the apps and data on the same drive, and you've got a totally portable setup--just don't lose the drive!

Anticipated pricing was not disclosed.