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Hard drive shows its content on the outside

How many external hard drives do you have? If you're like me, you probably have a few strewn around your desk and don't really have an easy way of knowing a.) how full they are and b.) what contents they are holding. The "IVY" attempts to unclutter your desk with an OLED skin that represents the data saved on the drive. Just be sure you don't confuse your disk with a colorful drink coaster.

IVY - manipulability & customization - Link, [via]

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Posted by: AnonymousMaker on December 19, 2007 at 11:44 AM

Really cool. So, how do you make it? I did not see any instructions.

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Posted by: Michael on December 19, 2007 at 12:00 PM

There's no instructions because it's fake. It's just an university industrial design site where an imaginary product is marketed. A lot of these show up here.

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Posted by: Chris Nava on December 19, 2007 at 12:44 PM

I assume the different sized boxes represent folder or file sizes. If they were color coded by file type would be nice... Something like this perhaps? http://windirstat.info/images/windirstat.jpg

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Posted by: bob on December 19, 2007 at 3:14 PM

Says they got the ideal from Sequoia View.
http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//

Looks similar to windirstat.

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Posted by: Wim on December 20, 2007 at 1:41 PM

Phooey, just a concept and photoshoppery? I was hoping they'd at least built a prototype.

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Posted by: j on December 20, 2007 at 4:48 PM

its not fake it made an appearance on g4 tech tv

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