There's some buzz surrounding IVY, a concept external hard drive by Irene Joris, Linda de Valk and Bram van der Vlist that lends some visual appeal to an otherwise mundane little storage appliance.

Packing on OLED on its face, it generates a pattern as more data is fed into the unit. And since the pattern is governed by the files copied onto it, each graphic is unique (unless a drive is perfectly cloned, perhaps?). Plus, you'll be able to tell if it's time to purge some files at a glance.

I hesitate to label it "green" unless they use hyper efficient disks to offset the power draw of the screen, even if it is meager. In any case it's pretty cool and I wouldn't mind seeing it go into production. Which is to say, I'd buy one.

[via Gizmodo]