LaCie Sphere - magnificent external HDD from designers of Christofle

And again - the news which has been closely connected with a subject of good design. It is pleasant that producers of devices give to appearance so much attention. After all it is much more pleasant to live in peace beautiful and functional pieces, rather than in the world functional, but ugly and purely utilitarian things, chained in angular cheap plastic.

Today the LaCie company well-known functional and, thus nice, external network storages, presented the new joint creation created in commonwealth with designers of Christofle firm: the external hard disk Sphere representing visually as prompts the name, the brilliant sphere.

The find of the French designers impresses - so everything simply, thus, with taste and that is not less important, without motley awkwardness and a kitsch. The brilliant sphere is made of stainless steel and received manually executed dusting silver. In a sphere the most ordinary HDD works. Everything together it looks a futuristic wonderful device and will perfectly decorate not only an ancient table retro style, but also an accurate minimalist office of any modern top manager.

As to the device hardware, it is not so interesting, as visual. LaCie did not begin to pursue unreasonable volumes and equipped the new device of HDD in capacity in habitual one terabyte. The device by means of the USB 3.0 interface is connected to the computer (capacity - to 5 Gbit/s.

Costs for rather modest characteristics of Sphere, certainly, much - 490 $.