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portable media

Hardbox External Hard Drive Hides Your Illiteracy With a Book Called Hardbox

This Hardbox enclosure from Korean company Sarotech looks even more book-like than the Western Digital MyBook drives that have been around for a few years. There are two status indicator lights on the front, behind which sits 3.5-inch SATA drives that connect to your PC via USB. It's great for hiding the fact that you don't have any books but have loads of external hard drives. That is, until someone looks closer and realizes you've read a book called Hardbox. Maybe Hardbox means something different in Korean. [Sarotech via AVING via Oh Gizmo]

6:10 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Jason Chen
3,161 views, 20 comments

Latest by 2-7offsuit: @shamoononon: Dude, it's called coprophagia and it's hilarious. more »

storage

Iomega Screenplay Mediaplayer HDD Does HD Upscaling

Iomega's new Screenplay HD Multimedia drive promises that you can "leave the PC behind" since it stores your movies, pics and tunes and connects directly to your HDTV. You simply save them via the USB2.0 connection, and it's standalone from there on. It can upscale to to 720p and 1080i, plays a wide bunch of formats and connects via HDMI, SCART, composite audio and video or coaxial S/PDIF. With 500GB inside it should be able to store about 750 hours of MPEG2 at 780 x 480 pixels: that's around 500 movies as we mentioned yesterday. It's available now for $218.45. [Iomega and TFTS]

11:25 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Kit Eaton
6,231 views, 52 comments

Latest by wired203: Popcorn hour does do 5.1 via coax which if you need a fiber connection you can buy a 5 buck converter. Or just stream it out through the hdmi. more »

concepts

External HD Concept Helps You Visualize Your Data Usage

This external hard drive concept entitled "IVY" adds an interesting new aesthetic to a plain old drive via an OLED screen that visualizes the content of the hard disk. Inspired by Sequoiaview visualization software, IVY starts out life as a rather plain-looking disk. As you fill it up, the design changes in sync with the content. In essence, you can automatically decorate your drive with a cushion treemap design that continually evolves. Again, it is only a concept—but it is a particularly interesting looking one if I do say so myself. [Concept Page via Next Nature via about:blank]

7:40 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Sean Fallon
3,948 views, 24 comments

Latest by Trackback: Little LED screens will be the next big thing in cosmetic gadget frippery: the slowly-lowering price of the Optimus Maximus over the next few years will chart this inconsequential revolution. In the meantime: concept art! more »

japan

Thanko Goes Nuts, Releases Two Products That Aren't Insane

What's going on here, Thanko? I thought we could count on you to make crazy USB Ear Microscopes, Ass Coolers, and Air Purifier Masks? What's this about making an LCD arm mount and a fingerprint-protected USB drive? These things have no style! No pizazz! No THANKO! Get it together, guys. For the sake of all humanity.[USB Drive via LCD Arm]

12:40 PM on Fri Jul 20 2007
By Jason Chen
2,781 views, 2 comments

Latest by OldSchoolGadgetLover: Well, ass coolers are definitely top notch, but I really like the flexible USB microscopes that allow you to check on your ear wax / booger growth status. more »

should you sign this freeagent?

Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive Review and Gallery

Slickly designed external hard drives are all the rage lately, but we originally scoped out Seagate's FreeAgent line back at CES. The FreeAgent Go holds up to 160GB and with the included Ceedo virtualization software, you can run apps directly from the drive, which is useful if you're stuck using a public computer. More »

10:34 PM on Mon May 7 2007
By Matt Buchanan
11,170 views, 24 comments

peripherals

SimpleTech Revs Up New Ferrari-Designed External Hard Drives

Fabrik Inc's dropping the latest line of Pininfarina-designed (as in Ferrari) SimpleTech-branded external hard drives. The new desktop SimpleDrives come in five colors and six sizes: fire red (160GB), pearl white (250GB), sapphire (320GB), onyx (500) and charcoal gray (750GB and 1TB), with the 160GB model starting at $100. All have a nifty blue circle of light on top showing you how much space you have left. More »

9:00 AM on Mon Apr 9 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,853 views, 11 comments

gadgets

Seagate's High-Fashion External Hard Drives

Ever-growing Seagate has become the emperor of the hard drive world, and now its external drives sport some fancy new clothes. The company that got rich building unglamorous SCSI drives for server farms has gone high-fashion with Its FreeAgent line of drives sporting "cocoa-black" casings and "molten-amber" lights. The series packs some serious capacity and a few very handy features. The Pro models range from 320 to 750 gigabytes ($230 to $450) and include the option of an external SATA connector that makes the drive as fast as an internal model. All the Pros also come with a six-month, 500-megabyte subscription to Seagate Internet Drive - an online storage service to provide a second backup for critical files.
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8:15 PM on Sun Jan 7 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
1,742 views, 3 comments

Latest by sleeepy: looks cool more »

deals

Dealzmodo: 300GB External Hard Drive, $130 Out-the-door

Okay, I know, I know. I've been filling up these Dealzmodos with mail-in-rebates lately, so I decided I would divert away from that and find a solid deal without any BS mail-in-rebates. I found one for an external hard drive, but unfortunately the hard drive is a Maxtor. Honestly, I've never had a problem with Maxtor hard drives and I have used quite a few, but I know there are a lot of you out there who share undying hatred for these drives More »

11:50 AM on Wed Sep 20 2006
By Travis Hudson
652 views, 23 comments

Latest by -emory-: It's a great deal, funny enough, I bought one with this deal about 2 months ago. It's been working perfectly. Got all my media backed up on it. Works like a charm! more »

iomega

Iomega eSATA External Hard Drive

External hard drives don't tend to be the most exciting things in the world: they just sit there and store stuff. But the new Iomega Desktop Hard Drive eSATA/USB 2.0 320 GB adds something new to the mix :an eSATA port, which connects to the external SATA port that's appearing on many new desktop and laptop PCs. The eSATA port is as fast as an internal SATA drive, but can be plugged and unplugged like a USB drive. The $240 drive comes with a PCI eSATA card if you don't have one. There's also a USB port. – Richard Baguley More »

1:20 PM on Fri Aug 25 2006
By gizcontrib
1,145 views, Comment

peripherals

Kouwell KW-7292 Fingerprint Disk

Getting paranoid these days? Taiwan's Kouwell offers its KW-7292 fingerprint disk, an external hard drive that won't let you access its data unless you've got the right fingerprint. More »

12:46 PM on Thu Jun 29 2006
By Charlie White
152 views, 3 comments

peripherals

Seagate 750GB External Drive

We told you about the Seagate Barracuda 750GB internal hard disk, and now it looks like the company has dressed up that drive in a techno-fantabulous enclosure, offering it in external trim for a hefty $559. More »

10:28 AM on Mon May 1 2006
By Charlie White
1,143 views, 3 comments

peripherals

LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme

This new LaCie external hard drive has three inputs—FireWire 800, FireWire, and USB 2.0—and supports up to 300GB of storage space for about $1 per GB. 800Mbps burst speeds and a fanless design make these stand out in the long line-up of external drives. Plus they're silver, which is nice. More »

4:26 PM on Tue Aug 16 2005
By johnb
76 views