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December 10th, 2007Lego Storage
I don’t know if a while back people had some sort of memo that said “Legos are awesome, and we want everything to look like them” or not, but it almost seems that they did. Anyway, so a few vendors made storage devices that look like Legos and stack like Legos, but otherwise don’t have any added benefit. I want to see this change.
Examples:
LaCie Brick:
Link to Buy
ZipZip Memory Bricks:
Link to Buy
My idea, however, is to have these products actually play off the modularity of Legos. I’d like to see, instead of them all having their own USB adapters, to have them in the bottom of the “brick” as well, so if you stacked them they would RAID (or whatever) together to make larger storage devices. Maybe that wouldn’t work because if you wanted to pull one off you’d have problems, but then they should at least use the same USB port.
So, if you had the same size Pips on all of them you could combine two 250GB LaCie drives and your computer would show the two different drives (but only the bottom one would plug into your computer) or you could stick on various 2GB or 1GB 2 pip by 4 pip (counting the cover) Usb Key drives. All it would take is internal USB hubs. That’d be a problem for stacking together the little ones, but for the larger it shouldn’t a problem at all. I’m sure there are better ways to do it, too.
I’d rather see ingenuity for practical applications than just the aesthetics.
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December 10th, 2007 at 19:39
awesome :D i <3 legos! ermm… it would be very nice to see these stackable, connecting through the lego pin things…
brings to mind the ‘infinite memory’ usb thumb stick design from vicky wei at yanko designs. i’m sure its doable, and when its realized i want to be the first to have a floor-to-ceiling stack of lego thumb drives :)