LaCie Hard Drive Apes 2001: A Space Odyssey December 10, 2007
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I love LaCie’s designer approach to storage, even if it does dent your wallet that little bit more than the competition. Who remembers the snappy Lego Brick storage drives, the alien-looking Huby connectivity hub, or the LaCie Rugged All-Terrain drives?
I’d be quite happy shelling out a few quid extra when I get to stare at the company’s latest designer external storage drive than the fugly grey lump plastic on my desk right now. This is the Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton, which owes more than a nod to the floating monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and which is why is looks very cool indeed.
Poulton is a multi-award winning designer and the man who invented the Ageing Pen back in the 1980s, made from a plastic that aged and changed colour the more it was used.
The glossy drive, finished in ‘mirror black’ comes with LaCie ‘1-Click’ Backup Software for PC and Mac.-Martin Lynch
[LaCie UK]
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Comments
That's very nice - is it possible to stand it on its end so it looks like the ones in the movie? Also, what does the blue light do (apart from looking cool?)