As the world becomes progressively ( and justifiably ) dominated by flash storage , old fashioned surd disk drives are becoming increasingly ( and justifiably ) useless . But slap a stage set of hands and a quartz movement on one , and boom ! You ’ve got yourself a reasonably awesome - look watch .
The HDD Watch is a real thingcreated by an untiring Frenchman named Jean Jérôme . Inspired by a gag photo he fancy in a watch forum , Jérôme come out progress these watches out of ever - so - endearing and abysmally disused Microdrives . The hands themselves are designed to look like the reading weapon of a heavy drive , and the band bears a printed ( not real ) lap board aim .
Even though the surd drives are real — and once boast a capacity of 4 gigabytes — they do n’t really store data point unfortunately .
Jérôme ’s already construct ten of these by hired hand and israising money on IndieGoGoto build at least 500 more . There are a few former bird special left that will let you get an HDD vigil for a little over $ 120 , and Jérôme ’s projection has already double its goal .
Next , the crazy Frenchman desire to make punishing cause watches with a portrait orientation which could avail them look a little less Brobdingnagian on your carpus as well as a heavy cause watch with a mechanically skillful motion . Now if he could only estimate out how to get them to store data too . [ Gizmodo France ]
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