iTwin is a new start up that is taking part in the TechCrunch50 this year. CEO Lux Anatharaman and COO Kal Takru are based in Singapore and the company aims to connect two remotely placed computers using a simple two part USB drive. All that the user has to do is snap it once the US is connected and give the other half with some other computer.

Using Internet and USB drives, one can connect two different computers anywhere in the world, and one need not know much about computers either. However, the idea of having to connect two computers remotely means the two individuals are not physically in contact with each other. So, it may actually be redundant to use a USB device which manually has to be given to the other person for the computers to be connected. That defeats the purpose of remote connection.

The argument behind the start up is that even a layman who does not know much about computers can plug the device in, snap it, and the give the device to the other person. However, it doesn’t occur to me what the laymen will do when they are not physically close. What if they are in two different continents? Courier iTwin device to the other person?