External HDD Combines Storage, Speaker, USB

Designer Andrew Seunghyun Kim has created a unique HDD/Key/Mouse bundle for LaCie.

Yanko Design features an interesting creation--built for gadget manufacturer LaCie--by Andrew Seunghyen Kim called Monami (a play on the French words meaning "My Friend"). This special set consists of a LaCie external hard drive, a unique mouse, and a USB stick crammed into one package. If that's not enough, it also sports 4 USB ports (one of which is mounted on the top), and a 3-inch wide-range speaker to "enhance a laptop's audio."

Monami's HDD offers a storage capacity of 2TB. There's a strange, circular leather patch mounted just above the drive's white outer hull, and will stretch upwards into a wave-like form "representing the ideas held inside the HDD." The leather wave mound is also magnetic, allowing users to ugly-up the device by pouring on paper clips.

As for the additional 16GB USB memory stick, it offers a little more storage, and is mainly designed to be parked in the hub located on the top (next to the weird leather patch). Mounted underneath the HDD users will find the 3-inch speaker parked on the Monami's black base.

The LaCie mouse is just as unusual as the HDD itself, sporting a UFO-like appearance with its saucer shape and glass-like surface. Without obvious buttons, users can navigate/click, swipe, scroll, and pinch. Flip the device on its side and you have a remote control capable of managing volume and video clips (forward and backward) on a connected PC or laptop.

Currently there's no indication of when the LaCie Monami will be available for public consumption.