Careful - depending on the implementation, this is not very secure. Either they encrypt the whole drive (then it depends on the algorithm used) which they certainly would've mentioned in a press release, or more likely they simply used the ATA security feature set, which merely set's a firmware password for the disk, but doesn't encrypt the contents at all and can be removed without knowledge of the password (see this article).
It's probably a better idea to use software encryption, for example FileVault or a AES encrypted disk image (both come with Mac OS X) or SafeGuard Easy (commercial software for Windows).
If they'd actually continued the thought and taken their earphones + microphone + little box with a button and added some bluetooth A2DP/headset/handsfree into it, that'd be actually a smart idea and I could just be convinced spending up to 250$ on the whole thing. But 500$? For a feature that is a nice gimmick but definitely not a real criteria for buying the product. Nah.
Way to uglify a not completely horrible design with stupid stickers.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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