Sarotech's Cutie Bio portable HDD sports fingerprint scanner

Cute though it may be, Sarotech's Cutie Bio portable hard drive is downright serious about data protection. Not one to let a lingering stranger peek beneath its dazzling shell, this pocket-friendly drive touts a built-in fingerprint scanner to protect the owner from spying eyes should it become lost or stolen. Additionally, the drive is built to handle drops and shocks as the head parks itself in freefall, and the USB 2.0 connection ensures speedy transfers when in a rush. Inside, you'll find a 2.5-inch 100GB hard drive just hankering for piles upon piles of juicy information, and this uber-protective device will run you ?150,000 ($162) whenever it lands in South Korea.

[Via AVing]

[thirtysix @ Jun 27th 2007 9:36AM]

I could be being naive here, but what's to stop a thief simply dissasembling the case and putting the actual had drive into a new, unprotected external case?

[Insder @ Jun 27th 2007 9:47AM]

That's the trick! Who would want to disassemble such a cute product and place it in a hardened, un-cutie shell?! Not me, no sir.

[piku @ Jun 27th 2007 10:24AM]

My buddy has a Lacie version of this. He's had it for quite a while so this is not new by any means. Apparently it's pretty well fool proof. The drive contents are actually encrypted. You need to setup the drive once under windows using the software but after that you can plug it into anything, after a swipe of a finger it'll start decrypting and allow the pc to access it. That's not to say someone couldn't figure it out but it'd actually be really tough. Don't know if this one does the same thing though.

[lilly heathers @ Jun 28th 2007 7:31AM]

Fingerprint technology. Once upon a time u could only see such technology on TV's. But rite now I actually have my own external fingerprint reader from A href="http://www.m2sys.com">M2SYS Technology but this is the first I am looking at external Hard Disk Fingerprint Reader. I dont mind having one of those if the price just decreases a little.