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Damn you, LaCie! These Brick Desktop and Mobile hard drives in the shape of Lego blocks are irresistible to the child and tinkerer in me. Designed by Ora- to, who has done crazy beautiful work for LG, Toyota, Swatch, and others, these stackable drives come in red, white or blue. The desktops range from 160-500 GB ($119-$399), and the mobile versions are 40-120GB ($119-$329). The red 250GB desktop brick is in stock now; the rest of the desktop drives are up for pre-order and ship in December. The Mobile versions come out in January.
But don't go dropping your ducats just yet, because LaCie says this is just the first of several HDD products from famed designers that the company is introducing in the next 6-12 months.
Lacie Lego Bricks [Product Page]
Comments
This is really a cool idea ! but like all LaCie products they cost a lot of money what would really be cool is if they made them in the shape of cube bircks or bars ...or other shapes !
I wonder if these are now available thanks to Lego patent running out? Otherwise they would crack down on this sort of thing.
I don't know if these would have anything to do with the Lego patent. The product page doesn't mention Lego at all, and there's certainly no shortage of Lego-style "building toys" out there (Mega Blox, I'm spitting in your direction here). The big drives should have eight pins on top anyway. Six is oh so wrong.
I would have hoped for smaller lego bit so that whilst I'm waiting to achieve my system I could make fun lego building like activity. could you make your own out of normal lego and SCSI to USB convert (i'm sure they are out there). If I have a spare mo over the crimbo holidays I'll make it blog it and comment it for you all.
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