Hasta La Ideas

pOver the years, the form factor of external hard drives has been whittled down into increasingly smaller, simple bricks; now, for better or worse, comes a more complicated form from Hitachi in their A HREF=”http://www.lifestudio.com/” LifeStudio drive/A. /p

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pThe brick is still there, but now it’s got a dock to slide into, and a little “friend” in the form of a removeable USB key if you just want to carry around (and in my case, potentially lose) a smaller percentage of the files./p

pThe drive’s designers have also gone beyond the physical form to incorporate a software package that displays your media in an on-screen 3D interface (on your computer monitor, not the drive itself). This is difficult to describe in text but easy to understand in video:/p

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p(At 2:11 the video’s overly long, but you needn’t sit through the whole thing to get the idea.)/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/hitachis_dockable_lifestudio_drive_and_lil_usb_buddy_16912.asp”(more…)/a
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