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Re: LaCie Debuts Hard Drives in the Form of LEGO Blocks
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:23:47 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Abner Finley wrote:
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http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/11/22.10.shtml
LaCie Debuts Hard Drives in the Form of LEGO Blocks (not real LEGO bricks)
by Staff, 12:45 PM EST, November 22nd, 2005
LaCie on Tuesday introduced its new Brick Desktop Edition and Brick Mobile
Edition line of external hard drives, which look like LEGO building blocks.
Available in white, red or blue, the desktop Bricks feature USB 2.0
interfaces and come in capacities ranging from 160GB (US$119.99) to 500GB
($399.99) while the mobile Bricks offer USB 2.0 or dual USB 2.0/FireWire 400
connectivity and can hold 40GB ($119.99) to 120GB (USB 2.0: $299.99; dual:
$329.99) of data.
LaCie turned to French designer Ora-Ito to create the new drives. He has
worked in the past with Adidas, Nike, Swatch and other companies. LaCie does
not use the word “LEGO” in association with the new hard drives, but they
closely resemble the popular children’s toy and can be stacked on top of each
other.
The company expects to ship the desktop drives at the end of next month while
the mobile versions will ship in January. They will come with LaCie One Click
Backup software, LaCie Silverlining and SilverKeeper drive management tools
and additional backup utilities for use with Macs. The Brick Mobile drives
are bus-powered. Mac OS X v10.2.1 is required.
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LaCie’s website is currently down (probably due to the double whammy of getting
Boing Boing’d and Slashdotted)
-Orion
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