Industrial Design Student Work: A Hard Drive that Visually Indicates How Full It Is

This morphing hard drive enclosure is by Antonin Odin , done as an Industrial Design student at France's ENSCI . People increasingly want more visibility over their data, more taste in the objects they live with, and more function from both. ZO is a 12 TB personal server that gives storage a body. Empty, it's a plain aluminium tube. As it fills up, its fins slide out one by one, one millimetre for every 400 GB. Switched off, it keeps its shape: it shows what it holds. It's built to live on a shelf, rather than hide in a rack. An almost ritual object that makes what we entrust to the machine vi