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Digital Cowboy unveils book-like SATA HDD: HARDBOX

10 November 2008 5 Comments

If you’ve been a long time reader here at GadgetLite, you might remember when we first mentioned the Digital Cowboy Pod Cowboy, which was essentially a protective case made for iPod Shuffles that looked like Japanese kids’ schoolbags. We don’t know a whole lot about Digital Cowboy, mainly because it seems its products are mostly confined to within Japan, though it could be possible that they’re really popular in Japn! Despite this, here is one which has raised some awareness on it’s unique design during Digital Cowboy’s release.

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Digital Cowboy’s latest product is a book like disguised 3.5-inch HDD hard drive, called the W-31UA. As pictured, the HDD can be stacked up in a bookshelf and no one will possibly know it was even there. It’s disguise gives it a vintage hard cover look, titled as ‘HARDBOX’, it’s dimensions are 200 x 159.5 x 40 mm. But I’m not entirely sure about the LED lights located near the bottom on it’s side, that kind of gives it away!

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5 Comments »

  • Women's Clothes said:
    Very Japanese, with the quirky designs etc!

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    # 10 November 2008 at 10:08 am
  • Chris at LG said:
    Very stylish - of course the ironic thing is that these drives can store millions of books worth of information. Does it just come in those colours or can you get it in others to match your books or decor?

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    Editorial Staff Reply:
    November 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    Thanks for dropping by Chris, interesting comment and very rightly so, one HARDBOX can replace the whole of the bookshelf. I believe it’s only available in the colour pictured though!

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    # 10 November 2008 at 12:48 pm
  • Armen Shirvanian said:
    This has some redeeming value to it, as an individual that would want an external drive could then place this next to his regular books, as shown in the picture, and connect it from the back to the computer. It would probably get comments from those that came over and noticed it, and it has another benefit that it requires people to have books around in order for the hard drive to seem inconspicuous.

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    # 13 November 2008 at 8:17 pm
  • Digital Cowboy Bookcase HardBox SATA HDD Enclosure | Hard Drives said:
    [...] (Price/Availability: Unknown - Japan Only) (via GadgetLite) [...]
    # 13 November 2008 at 11:06 pm

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