Tag: LACIE

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. As the ...

CooKey and WhizKey USB Sticks by La Cie La Cie has given us some design-y products in the past, most notably the gorgeous hard drives crafted by the nonpareil Philippe Starck. This year, La Cie didn't let us down. We were floored by the simple, elegant CooKey and WhizKey USB sticks (ranging from 4 to 32 gigabytes in capacity), which are scratch-resistant and require no housing to keep them ...

It's a little early in the product life to declare Windows Home Server a failure or a success yet, but this holiday season is shaping up to be the first real test of its market viability. Windows Home Sever is an offshoot of the company's enterprise platform for Web and file hosting designed with consumer in mind. Essentially, it's a system that will automatically backup several computers ...

External hard drives -- those boxes that connect to your PC and store all your excess music, video, and other files -- are usually ugly, or, at best, boring-looking. And though these babies seem boring as devices go in our iPhone-obsessed world, they serve an important purpose. Increasingly, they're also as much a part of the furniture as our computers are. So it's about time that the ...