I-O Data's HDMC-U series: up to 12GB of waterproof disk

Someday goldfish will desire 12GB of disk. Until then, I-O Data's HDMC-U series of waterproof disks are all yours. These 1-inch drives feature a waterproofiness in waters as deep as 1-meter and can withstand the shock of being dropped from as high as 122-centimeters. Something you'll be thankful for when the robofish rise from the waters like our carbon based ancestors. The perimeter of the shell is surrounded by a rubberized USB cable which offers both bounce and a jack at-the-ready for your computer. On sale in Japan starting mid-December in either 8GB / 12GB capacities for ¥16,485 / ¥22,050 which translates to about $142 / $190.

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[Paul @ Nov 28th 2006 9:25AM]

Now that is what I call water cooling

[duckhunt @ Nov 28th 2006 9:29AM]

"waterproofiness in waters as deep as 1-meters"

'water resistant' might be a better phrase to use in this case. Waterproof implies it could survive a drop in a swimming pool (most of which are more than a meter deep.)

a nice feature, nevertheless, to keep your data safe from accidents.

[PDubNYC @ Nov 28th 2006 11:53AM]

Ummm how do you figure that a swimming pool is the measurement? In my mind, anyway, waterproof generally means that it can handle being fully submerged in water and continue to function. Often the depth (pressure) that the device can handle is listed afterwards. As long as you don't go below that depth, it is indeed waterproof, not just splash resistant or whatever.

and Evan, not to worry, that green color is the plant life in the back of the bowl. See the branches? as well as how white the device looks?

They should make cell phones toilet proof for sure.

[evan @ Nov 28th 2006 9:43AM]

Ouhh thats nasty green water poor fishy

[Wonderboy @ Nov 28th 2006 9:51AM]

Bowl kinda has a likeness of the Kool-Aid man... maybe headline should be changed to "Kool-Aid man on rampage, already claimed victims of goldfish and disk drive"

[aeo @ Nov 28th 2006 1:26PM]

This will be great for when I shower with my laptop. It's tough to keep the soap bubbles out of the DVD drive and sometimes it electrocutes me. I always wake up a few hours later with prune-fingers though.

[tekdroid @ Nov 28th 2006 6:16PM]

now we're seeing something different. Shock-proofing and waterproofing are features that often don't even get a look-in by most manufacturers.

[CVL4317 @ Nov 28th 2006 10:28PM]

yeah, just put that into a bowl of cold water, and i can expect no heat problem

[optV @ Nov 29th 2006 1:44AM]

Wow, no "I for one" comments yet? Just look at that underwater data consuming overlord.

[jessew @ Feb 7th 2007 1:21PM]

awww come on .....the goldfish doesn't look like an overloard to me....

[bobSmith @ Sep 8th 2007 8:40PM]

Anyone buying this should consider this rootkit like activation on this device.

This device split into two partitions: one CDFS that you cannot uninstalled. There is currently NOT ENGLISH documentation. If you allow autoruns to start, this device will immediately run the program AutoCRD.exe, whether you like it or not. This kind of rude style of force installation, remember the Sony Rootkit?, is very common with new batch of portable device - like U3.

The other partition is an ordinary partition.

If you buy a portable device, one should be able to clean partition it. But this rubbish HDMC does not allow you to do this.

I will not recommend this rubbish to anyone.