Sarotech's Wizplatz W-31 looks like a book, isn't
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted May 13th 2008 2:04PM
posted May 13th 2008 2:04PM
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posted May 13th 2008 2:04PM
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cute
"Hey, I'm a book!"
no your not
How do you know? This is the internet after all.
The journalistic capabilities of some of these Engadget writers are just plain astounding "looks like a book, isn't" I mean it's not like the average 2nd grader could write something so profound and attention-getting.
Meaty Pi should be two words.
Pi should be spelled with an 'e' at the end of it if you are going to use a picture of a little pie.
Whether it be strawberry, raspberry, cherry, rhubarb, or whatever your fruit of choice, it doesn't appear that the pie is very 'meaty'. Bloody, maybe.
I never claimed to be a writer or a journalist so my choice of words is less important, and by the way, a pie can be meaty, if it has meat in it. Ever heard of a meat pie? Also Pi is a play on words because it can refer to the greek letter or the transcendental number, or hell even the pastry itself!
I thought it was a great headline.
Wait, you mean Pi instead of Pie for double meaning? With mean in front of it for triple (or is it quadruple?) meaning?
Whoah. Where's your blog Mr Clever-Writer-Would-Be-Pye?
@Pepto Pimp
FAIL, your post was unintelligible and wasn't remotely funny.
Your 2.5 cent titanium tax goes too far!
Your 2.5 cent titanium tax does not go too far enough!
Thanks John Jackson or Jack Johnson!
I was hoping i wasn't the only one that got this totally obscure futurama reference. i love the engadget writers.
I think the LEDs kinda spoil the book look...
-Taylor
So will the USB cable and power brick, so we might as well know if it's on or reading from the disk :)
It has a built in power supply, so probably just two cables giving away it away, no power brick.
You send them to school, you buy them books and what do they do?
They eat the covers of the books.
I wonder what the read speed is.
One of the greatest.
I may have to make myself something like that -- since I can't afford importing one.
wow a book i'll actually use
A while back, some pics made the rounds of the blogs about how someone turned a Moleskine journal into an enclosure for a portable hard drive (a search on moleskine hard drive gets plenty of links). Other books could be used of course, if you don't want to use a hideously overpriced "status" notebook, but you'd be less cool, of course. Is there a "Backup for Dummies" book?
"didn't go too far enough"
Lets make it look like a book for 'NOOO RAISIN!'
Need something that looks like a real book, can take a 2.5" SATA drive, and has Wi-Fi built-in.
E.g. a semi-hidden backup/NAS device.
I could see that being done pretty easily (depending on the size of the book), with a gumstix board. The only trouble would be hiding the power adapters.If you can wire power into your bookshelf you're golden.
...and manual that comes with this thing is in that shape of a hard drive.
It would be really nice if you could stack them up and they would automagically become some kind of redundant array.
My nearest bookcase is in another room. I don't see how this helps me get my data.
HA I have a sarotech external, but it looks like a plastic brick. My uncle sent it to be from Korea. I would call them as good as WD, because they have WD drives in them :P, that don't feature all that crap WD puts on their Externals drives.
Can I down load it from Amazon onto my Kindle?
About the only purpose I can think of for a hard drive that looks like a book it to disguise it so no-one will steal your data. So, broadcasting this product to the world via Engadget sort of defeats that purpose, no?
Now that's funny!
does this give new meaning to mounting a "volume"?
I think it does.
...only if by mounting, you mean...
Oh, nevermind.
So, is the book in Korean or English?
...sorry, I had to.